Tag Archives : integration

Siri, the “secret weapon” of the iPhone 4S, builds on advances started with the iPhone and expanded with the iPad, finally opening the door to enabling us to eliminate the 19th century keyboard from everything we do.

If you simply create a standalone community, you will only create a place where your stakeholders socialize. While this is nice, it will not create a large return on your investment. If you want to maximize the return on investment in your business community, you need to embed it into the your entire enterprise. Here’s how…

We all have far too many accounts to maintain. We all know this. However, too many communities ask us to join YET ANOTHER NETWORK to participate. To be effective, communities should let me members be themselves, not just in how they express themselves but also in how they identify themselves…

We have all heard the mantra, “write once, re-use everywhere,” to describe the concept of creating technology that can ubiquitously to create value in many places. However, publishing APIs alone will not achieve this. To be ubiquitous, you must incorporate the principle of Extensibility into every aspect of design, development and operation. Here is how I have defined this as a guiding architecture principle and applied it to create over $1 Bn of value…

Correct isolation of logic in your applications can enable them to “turn on a dime,” rapidly adapting to changing business rules and requirements. Placing logic in the wrong places can lead to spaghetti, long test cycles or (even worse) complete breakage of your data model. This is why “Isolation of Logic by Type” is an architecture principle I live by–even if many of my vendors do not…

Use of modularity and encapsulation if one of the most powerful approaches to scaling architecture (your ability to built it, your cost to operate it–AND the value you can obtain from it). Those enterprises who incorporate this into the DNA of their technology create “killer networks” that can used to generate enormous value…