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Community blog for architects in the Belgium and Luxembourg region moderated by Bart Vande Ghinste, Enterprise Architect for Microsoft Belgium and Luxembourg.
60% of all business calls end in a Voicemail system
· 40% of all working Belgian people feels “overloaded with information” · 60% of all business calls...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/21/2008
Things To Consider When Firing Your Provider
As offshore outsourcing clients continue to feel the pain of providers' resource constraints and...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/16/2008
First CloudCamp on the continent on 30/10 in Brussels
During this event the attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/16/2008
Architecture Journal - Issue 17 – Distributed Computing
Just in time for PDC, we are pleased to announce Issue 17 of the Architecture Journal! You can...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/15/2008
Silverlight 2 ships!
Over the past year Microsoft Silverlight has led the way for developers and designers to create...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/14/2008
Microsoft now the leader in Enterprise search (Gartner)
Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology (Gartner Research, Sept. 30, 2008) Microsoft is...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/08/2008
.NET Framework 4.0 and “Dublin” Application Server
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and “Dublin” Announcement Microsoft announces via...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/01/2008
The business analyst vs. the enterprise architect
Business analysts serve an important role in the organization, helping to marry the needs of the...
Author: pdestoop Date: 09/17/2008
Independent study: investment in .NET growing faster than in Java
Investment in .NET is on the up-tick, according to an independent survey conducted by Evans Data...
Author: pdestoop Date: 09/17/2008
Microsoft and Cray unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer
Microsoft and Cray are set to unveil on September 16 the Cray CX1, a compact supercomputer running...
Author: pdestoop Date: 09/17/2008
Pattern & Practices: draft guidelines online
We posted an early draft of our guidelines for the following areas: Architecture and Design...
Author: pdestoop Date: 09/11/2008
BizTalk Server 2009 on track
BizTalk Server 2009, is on track for availability during the first half of 2009. With over 8,200...
Author: pdestoop Date: 09/10/2008
Microsoft joins OMG
Senior Vice President Bob Muglia shares perspective on future of model-driven development and...
Author: pdestoop Date: 09/10/2008
Security flaws: may not be inherent to Microsoft products...
This globally neutral article in "Application Development Trends", provides some interesting...
Author: pdestoop Date: 09/08/2008
Goldman Sachs: Cloud computing last item on priority list CxO?
According to a recent survey of top CIOs by Goldman Sachs & Co., cloud computing was the last...
Author: pdestoop Date: 09/02/2008
Burton Group: Open Source Software - Risks and Rewards
OSS is a threat to some vendors but a boon to others. It’s changing the business of giants such as...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/26/2008
Burton Group: SharePoint Identity Management and Access
Extract from Burton Group report concerning SharePoint Identity Management and Access: Conclusion...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/26/2008
The next Microsoft Belux Architect Forum is here: RIA with SL2.0
The theme of this Architect Forum is "Architecting Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight 2.0"....
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/26/2008
Enterprise Architects finally value Infrastructure Architects
For far too long many enterprise teams have viewed infrastructure architects as too low level, not...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/25/2008
Businesslink: Pricing your product or service
No rocket-science here, but nicely structured summary. Cost-plus versus value-based pricing There...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/25/2008
Heros will always ruin your it organization
Working in an IT organization can be challenging. There are exhausting late night emergencies and...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/22/2008
Architect Journal 16: IDENTITY AND ACCESS
The 16th issue of The Architecture Journal is out! In this issue, we invite you to think about...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/22/2008
International SharePoint Professionals Association sees the light.
The International SharePoint Professionals Association (“ISPA”) is the first independent,...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/20/2008
Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 released!
Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is not a traditional service...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/20/2008
Forrester: The Mobile Architecture Imperative
The past eight years have shown little business adoption of mobile applications beyond wireless...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/20/2008
Positioning of architectural frameworks
The picture below, is the conclusion of a whiteboard discussion an an MVP summit in the US...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/20/2008
Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (CTP)
The Windows Live™ Tools for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 are a set of control add-ins to make...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/19/2008
The Emerging Technology Trends according to Forrester
The global "IT everywhere wave" is being powered by the emergence of business technology (BT) — thid...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/19/2008
PC penetration per household in EU
"A PC in every home", half of the original mission statement of MS (the other half being "and on...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/19/2008
Gartner hype cycle for mobile platforms
Full cycle at - https://www.gartner.com/hc/index.jsp?hc_id=157189
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/19/2008
SaaS Maturity Model according to Forrester
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is the hottest trend in both CRM and the small and midsize business...
Author: pdestoop Date: 08/18/2008
Is your enterprise ready for the Digital Natives?
Prensky: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Today‟s students have not just changed incrementally...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/22/2008
Architects need to ask the right questions: Strategic Questioning
Architects are at the edge of business and IT and hence to create the best solution it is crucial to...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/22/2008
Infrastructure Architects: who are they, what is their goal in life?
Forrester: Infrastructure Architects Link Technology Strategy With Long-Term EA And Business Goals...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/22/2008
Microsoft is evil. Apple, Google, Linux are the good guys. Right?
Microsoft is evil and Google isn't, right? Maybe not, after recent events, writes columnist Rob...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/22/2008
Stairway to haven and/or hell
https://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2008/06/brand-stairway.html
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/14/2008
Web3D - The Next Major Internet Wave?
The World Wide Web has become an ingrained part of the way we work. No one ponders, these days, the...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/11/2008
MS developer framework for building claims-based applications
Microsoft has released the public beta of the “Zermatt” developer framework for building...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/10/2008
Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide
The BizTalk Customer Advisory Team and BizTalk UE team are pleased to announce the first edition of...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/09/2008
Domain Driven Design Quickly
The book(let) “Domain Driven Design Quickly” discussed below can be downloaded free from InfoQ at...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/09/2008
Release of Microsoft Application Request Routing for IIS 7 CTP1.
Application Request Routing for IIS7 is a proxy based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/07/2008
Patterns & Practices: Composite Application Guidance for WPF
Microsoft patterns & practices is pleased to announce the latest addition to the p&p...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/04/2008
9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless
"My CIO is clueless." These are words you don't want to hear if you want to earn the respect of your...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/03/2008
Secure your SOA with the patterns & practices WCF Security Guide
The Microsoft P&P team released the beta of the WCF Security guide This is the Microsoft...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/02/2008
Real-life Dilbert manager quotes
A magazine recently ran a 'Dilbert Quotes' contest. They were looking for people to submit quotes...
Author: pdestoop Date: 07/01/2008
UI2: centralized control, while providing end-user configurability?
An extract out of the AMR Research below that might be of interest for those among you who are...
Author: pdestoop Date: 06/30/2008
Interop: from Java/RMI over SOAP to WS-* demo on Open Source !!
Interesting message from Robert Wahbe, MS Corporate VP Connected Systems Division: "A decade ago,...
Author: pdestoop Date: 06/30/2008