Architecture, Data and Intelligence

Is there a framework or methodology for establishing the business / ecosystem requirements to drive API strategy and development...

# bizarch Excellent article by @ haydn1701 on Why Amazon Succeeds (Forbes, 29 April 2012) via @ davegray and @ ruthmalan . Haydn Shaun...

Google vs Amazon (again). @ davidsprott reckons Steve Yegge's rant is spot on. Steve Yegge is a software engineer who used to work for...

What are the problems of large complex sociotechnical systems? How far do SOA and enterprise architecture help to address this problem space...

The SOA world is finally catching up with some of the ecosystem ideas that I published in my 2001 book on the Component-Based Business ( see...

Where have all the agents gone? asks Seth Godin. He is talking about travel agents, stock brokers, real estate, and so on. "The proble...

Can Real-Time Profit and Loss tame the turbulent markets? ask Bob Giffords (independent analyst) and Mark Palmer (Streambase). The simple ...

Mark O'Neill (Vordel) discusses a couple of SOA projects with an interesting goal - causing your customers to use less of your products...

Among many other interesting topics in his latest post ( Unanswered Questions ... ), John Hagel distinguishes between "inside-out"...

One of the problems with a network of services is that the responsibilities and costs and risks are often in the wrong place. In this post...

What is the starting point for an SOA modeling exercise? Traditionally, we have often understood the purpose of modeling in terms of the des...

A business or value chain is composed in a geometric structure. (In the past we have often called this structure an architecture, but this w...

Amazon, eBay and PayPal are creating platforms for eCommerce. Amazon Web Services eBay Developers Programme PayPal Merchant Tools ...

If there is only one implementation of a service then trusting the service entails trusting the implementation entails trusting the supplier...

Lots of commentators and blogs have picked up on a recent Business Week story about Amazon (December 22, 2003). But Amazon has been workin...