Strategy and Architecture Council : S+S

John L. Scott Real Estate Enables Online Social Networking with Live Services and Silverlight

dpeuswr — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:55:00 GMT

John L. Scott Real Estate (JLS) is delivering a unique social networking solution, called JLSconnect, that makes it easier for buyers to shop for a home, and it will help JLS agents win new business and keep customers. By building this new solution using Microsoft software and a Software+Services approach, John L. Scott was able to deliver unique customer value quickly and cost-effectively. The company has easily repackaged existing Web functionality, combined it with new capabilities provided by Microsoft Live Services, and delivered it all through a user experience powered by Silverlight and optimized for the task at hand: collaborating with family, friends, and a John L. Scott agent when shopping for a home.

Read the full article on Sam Chenaur’s blog at http://blog.samchenaur.com/2009/05/26/john-l-scott-real-estate-enables-online-social-networking-with-live-services.aspx

John L Scott Real Estate Looks to WPF and Software + Services

dpeuswr — Sat, 09 May 2009 06:34:26 GMT

Microsoft uses the term "Software+Services" to describe a vision of computing that harmonizes client and server software with cloud services [S+S Strategy]. Rich software components that either exist on client machines or installed on-premise within a datacenter can leverage building block components that exist as cloud services. In many ways, this is not much different than, let’s say, accessing software components (such as Web services perhaps) in one’s own datacenter in order to build composite applications.

Microsoft’s broad platform offering gives customers a rich set of choices to weave together applications from growing collection of software and service offerings. In this particular post I’d like to address a combination of rich client (RIA) technology, namely Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Microsoft’s Live Services cloud offering, and on-premise assets that are brought together as one cohesive solution. To make matters more interesting, this ‘solution’ addresses a real world business scenario. The company in question that is testing and honing this model in John L. Scott Real Estate.

Read the full article on Sam Chenaur’s blog at http://blog.samchenaur.com/2009/05/06/john-l-scott-real-estate-looks-to-wpf-and-software--services-2.aspx

New Video Explains S+S

dpeuswr — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:26:50 GMT

Even though S+S or Software + Services has been out in the “wild” for a couple of years there are many who are not aware of what it really means. It seems that in the internet culture of today nothing registers until it has an obligatory YouTube video. Well here it is in all it’s glory (actually , its a bit understated). Did it work for you?

Read the full article on Dan Willis’ blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/danlistens/archive/2009/01/20/new-video-explains-s-s.aspx

Architect Council – San Francisco 2008.12.18

dpeuswr — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:35:59 GMT

Here are the content for the Architect Council event at Microsoft's San Francisco campus on Thursday, December 18, 2008. We would like to thank everyone who made the time to attend, and sharing your feedback. We appreciate the kind comments, as well as areas we need to improve upon. If you have any further questions and/or comments, please feel free to reach out to us (via blogs listed on this site, our email addresses, or other information contained in the slide decks).

Or, view them on SlideShare and download PDF versions:

SlideShare PowerPoint Ribbon – it’s S+S!

dpeuswr — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:47:04 GMT

SlideShare, the most popular social site for presentations on the web, released a SlideShare Ribbon Add-in for PowerPoint, the most popular desktop presentation software in world.

The SlideShare Ribbon Add-in for PowerPoint enables the sharing and social features of SlideShare and makes them accessible without leaving PowerPoint.

Read the full article on John Stame’s blog at http://jcstame.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/slideshare-powerpoint-ribbon-its-ss/

Architect Council – Bellevue 2008.12.16

dpeuswr — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:32:44 GMT

Here are the slides we presented at the Architect Council event at Microsoft's Bellevue campus on Tuesday, December 16, 2008. We would like to thank everyone who made the time to attend, and sharing your feedback. We appreciate the kind comments, as well as areas we need to improve upon. If you have any further questions and/or comments, please feel free to reach out to us (via blogs listed on this site, our email addresses, or other information contained in the slide decks).

Or, view them on SlideShare and download PDF versions:

Architect Council - Irvine 2008.12.11

dpeuswr — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:35:04 GMT

Here are the content for the Architect Council event at Microsoft's Irvine campus on Thursday, December 11, 2008. We would like to thank everyone who made the time to attend, and sharing your feedback. We appreciate the kind comments, as well as areas we need to improve upon. If you have any further questions and/or comments, please feel free to reach out to us (via blogs listed on this site, our email addresses, or other information contained in the slide decks).

Microsoft And Cloud Computing

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: architecture platform)

A Lap Around The Mesh Services Woodyp

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: architecture framework)

Azure Services Platform

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: architecture computing)

And a couple of upcoming events:

SOA & Business Process Conference 2009 - Jan. 27-30 – Redmond, WA

http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=628664

MSDN Developers Conference 2009 - Feb. 19 – San Francisco, CA

http://www.msdndevcon.com/Pages/SanFrancisco.aspx

MIX 2009 - Mar. 18-20 – Las Vegas, NV

http://2009.visitmix.com/

Tech•Ed 2009 - May 11-15 – Los Angeles, CA

http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2009/

Professional Developers Conference 2009 - Nov. 17-20 – Los Angeles, CA

http://www.microsoftpdc.com/

Architect Council - Phoenix 2008.12.09

dpeuswr — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:13:25 GMT

Here are the content for the Architect Council event at Microsoft's Phoenix campus on Tuesday, December 9, 2008. We would like to thank everyone who made the time to attend, and sharing your feedback. We appreciate the kind comments, as well as areas we need to improve upon. If you have any further questions and/or comments, please feel free to reach out to us (via blogs listed on this site, our email addresses, or other information contained in the slide decks).

Microsoft And Cloud Computing

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: architecture platform)

A Lap Around The Mesh Services Woodyp

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: architecture framework)

Azure Services Platform

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: architecture computing)

And a couple of upcoming events:

SOA & Business Process Conference 2009 - Jan. 27-30 – Redmond, WA

http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=628664

MSDN Developers Conference 2009 - Feb. 19 – San Francisco, CA

http://www.msdndevcon.com/Pages/SanFrancisco.aspx

MIX 2009 - Mar. 18-20 – Las Vegas, NV

http://2009.visitmix.com/

Tech•Ed 2009 - May 11-15 – Los Angeles, CA

http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2009/

Professional Developers Conference 2009 - Nov. 17-20 – Los Angeles, CA

http://www.microsoftpdc.com/

Architect Council - Los Angeles 2008.12.04

dpeuswr — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:52:30 GMT

Here are the content for the Architect Council event at Microsoft's Los Angeles campus on Thursday, December 4, 2008. We would like to thank everyone who made the time to attend, and sharing your feedback. We appreciate the kind comments, as well as areas we need to improve upon. If you have any further questions and/or comments, please feel free to reach out to us (via blogs listed on this site, our email addresses, or other information contained in the slide decks).

Microsoft And Cloud Computing

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: architecture platform)

A Lap Around The Mesh Services Woodyp

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: architecture framework)

Azure Services Platform

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: architecture computing)

And a couple of upcoming events:

Architect Council - Dec. 11 - Irvine, CA

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032393294

SOA & Business Process Conference 2009 - Jan. 27-30 – Redmond, WA

http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=628664

MSDN Developers Conference 2009 - Feb. 19 – San Francisco, CA

http://www.msdndevcon.com/Pages/SanFrancisco.aspx

MIX 2009 - Mar. 18-20 – Las Vegas, NV

http://2009.visitmix.com/

Tech•Ed 2009 - May 11-15 – Los Angeles, CA

http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2009/

Professional Developers Conference 2009 - Nov. 17-20 – Los Angeles, CA

http://www.microsoftpdc.com/