Technology

A Capabilities-based Architecture

As technology architecture professionals, we can only be successful and valuable to those who pay us if we frame our work in terms of capabilities at the outset. If we start with details, we'll ultimately fail.

Microsoft’s $8.5bn Catch-up Gamble

Microsoft today announced that it will acquire Skype, the leading Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion in cash from the investor group led by Silver Lake. Skype has 663 million people across the world registered to use its voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) communications, is…

Microsoft’s $8.5bn Catch-up Gamble

Microsoft today announced that it will acquire Skype, the leading Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion in cash from the investor group led by Silver Lake. Skype has 663 million people across the world registered to use its voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) communications, is…

IT Made Simple

What would it take for your business to view IT as a valuable, essential partner instead of an annoying cost-center that they're forced to deal with? Wouldn't that be better for you and better for them?

Nogility

Large technology organizations don't simply become agile. They're either agile or not. If they're not, the path to being so is via change, often radical change at that.

Why IBM is Right about HP Strategy

HP Chief Executive Officer Léo Apotheker recently outlined new corporate strategy which fundamentally changes the roadmap for HP as we have known it. Some analysts are calling it a “seismic shift”. I am not sure I will use those words in light…

The Retail Reference Architecture

The concept of “reference architecture” is often misunderstood and gets associated with IT. While the implementation may very well be IT, the reference architecture essentially is a business and operational artefact. As RUP defines, “the reference architecture in essence, is a predefined…
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