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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.

November 2006 - Posts

Strategic Architecture Forum
This week Microsoft is hosting the Strategic Architecture Forum (SAF) in Redmond. It is a premier event where Architects, CIOs, CTOs from global enterprises come to Redmond to share their thoughts about the challenges faced by these industryies and hear Read More...
Next Generation
Recently I took my and son and daughter who are 8 and 6 years old to a store to get stuff for home. On the way to the store as usual the talk of buying some goodies came up. My kids love to get some goody every time they go into the store, which is a Read More...
Association for Retail Technology Standards Unveils New Foodservice Standard Set
Last week ARTS ( Association for Retail Technology Standards ) announced availability of Food Services standards at the FS/TECH show in Long Beach, CA . There has been tremendous interested from the ISV (Independent Software Vendor) community for a standard Read More...
NFC payments conference
I spoke at the recently concluded NFC Payments Conference in Frankfurt, Germany. I spoke about the impact of emerging technology on payment processing industry. It was great to see around 200 to 300 attendees for the conference. There were many indsutry Read More...
Office Accounting Express 2007
Microsoft announced availability of Office Accounting Express 2007 for free. It is a complete accounting software for free. Any small business or user can download the full package for free and use to do their accounting. Please check it out the new site Read More...
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