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ARC Thoughts

This is a blog on architecture. Focus of this blog is to help technical decision makers with upcoming technologies so they can make informed decisions. Since I'm passionate about retail industry and payments industry, there will some bias towards those areas.

July 2006 - Posts

Payment Card Industry Compliance - Visa changes the retail security rules
Few days back Visa made changes to the most popular cardholder information security protection requirement that all organizations that accept credit card must comply with. eWeek reports on the changes in the article . The key change happened in the categorization Read More...
ePayments
I recently spoke at an event and the question I asked is "how many of you have cash in your wallets?" and the answer was not many. Which didn't surprise me a bit as we're increasingly becoming a cash-less society. We use plastic more and more, already Read More...
A key challenge in payment processing
One of the key challenges faced by the payment processing industry is identifying and preventing fraud. Most of the payment processing organizationg spend a good chunk of their revenue in fighting fraud. Proliferation of broadband is helped in boosting Read More...
Motion methodology
I spoke about Motion methodology at TechEd - India. The response was pretty positive, however it opened up many questions that needed to follow up. In next couple of weeks I'll update my blog with answers to some of those questions. Meanwhile here is Read More...
My session at TechEd - India
One the sessions I presented at TechEd was called " Putting the user back in SOA ". The session was well received and based on the comments and feedback after session it was clear that attendees were eager to get their hands on the slides. So my fellow Read More...
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