Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Thought Leadership

ARCast.TV - David Chappell on Effective IT Innovation

Bob Familiar — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:50:00 GMT

David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates based in San Francisco, California. Through his speaking, writing, and consulting, he helps people around the world understand, use, and make better decisions about new technology.

In this episode David talk to Bob Familiar about Effective IT Innovation. David talks about how innovation is more than just coming up with great ideas. He makes the case that innovation is a change that provides value. He goes into some detail on his i3 approach to taking ideas and moving them through the implementation and infusion phases so that their value has the broadest impact.

ARCast.TV - Rocky Lhotka on Patterns, Architecture and MVVM

Bob Familiar — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:19:00 GMT

Rockford Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic, a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners. Rocky is the creator of CSLA .NET, one of the most widely used development frameworks for Microsoft .NET and he is the author of numerous books, including the Expert 2008 Business Objects book.

In this episode Rocky talks to Bob Familiar about why patterns are important, the relationship between patterns and layered architecture and the emergence of MVVM as a key pattern for Rich Internet Applications.

More information on patterns and MVVM can be found on Rocky’s Blog.

ARCast.TV - Neil Palmer of Sungard on the Business Impact of Cloud Computing and RIA

Bob Familiar — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:41:00 GMT

In this episode, Hong Choing talks to Neil Palmer, Partner for Sungard Consulting Service about the impact of Cloud Computing and new Rich Internet Application technologies such as Silverlight 4.

Hong covers this solution in detail in this blog post.

ARCast.TV - A.D.A.M migrates from Google Cloud to Windows Azure

Bob Familiar — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:05:00 GMT

A.D.A.M. www.adam.com , a leading provider of consumer health information and benefits technology solutions to 500+ Hospitals in the US, was looking to use cloud computing to revolutionize its business. In September 2009, they developed an H1N1 Swine Flu Assessment tool using Java/Google Cloud App Server.

We talked to A.D.AM. about Microsoft’s “3 Screens and a Cloud” strategic vision and how we could leverage the initial Swine Flu Assessment tool work and create a dynamically configurable cloud hosted medical assessment tool engine that includes web, pc, and mobile UX capabilities. A.D.A.M. partnered with Microsoft and iLink Systems to rewrite the existing Swine flu assessment application as a reusable Medical Assessment tool solutions framework using the following Microsoft Platforms/Technologies;

VS2010/.Net 4.0
Silverlight 4.0
Windows Azure
SQL Azure
W7 (Gadget)
IE8 (Webslice)
Windows Phone 7.0 specification

This ARCast.TV episode gives you a full demonstration of the working production application and interview with Ravi Mallikarjuniah,iLink Systems Healthcare Practice Lead.

ARCast.TV - Selling Pizza in the Cloud: Domino's and Windows Azure

Bob Familiar — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:18:00 GMT

When you're one of the busiest pizza companies in the world, how do you scale your web site to meet regular and irregular demand? You move it to the Cloud, of course!

In this episode of ARCast, Denny Boynton sits down with Jim Vitek and discusses Domino's approach and appreciation for cloud computing with Windows Azure for Dominos.com.

ARCast.TV - IHI Shines Silverlight on Healthcare Improvement

Bob Familiar — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:58:00 GMT

Recently Bob Familiar had the pleasure of sitting down with Michael Iantosca, CEO of eDefine, Paul Hamnett, VP of Engineering at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI.org), and Kerri Sweeney, Director of Development at IHI, to learn about a new Silverlight based solution they have created for the healthcare quality industry called the Improvement Map.

This video includes an overview of IHI.org from Paul Hamnett and an in depth review of the application, the architecture and a demo from Kerri Sweeney and Michael Iantosca.

There is a case study that details IHI's Silverlight solution here and an architecture deep dive here.

ARCast.TV - How Chyron Uses Silverlight for TV Graphics

Bob Familiar — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:33:00 GMT

Have you ever wondered about the production that goes into all the graphics that are shown during your favorite sporting events? Chyron is the industry leader in all aspects of providing graphics for TV programming.

Jim Cirone sits down with Jeff Wolski, Sumit Sahni and Daniel Kim from Chyron to discuss their use of Silverlight and some open source frameworks to build their next generation graphic asset production solution.

ARCast.TV - Architects? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Architects!

Bob Familiar — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:32:00 GMT

Are software architects necessary?

Nobody denies the need for software architecture, but many challenge the idea that you need a dedicated software architect to get it. Michael Stiefel compares software to painting to answer this question. Yes we do need architects, but not for the reasons that many think.

This was the keynote talk at the Boston Architect Factory on January 27, 2010.

ARCast.TV - Scalable Tax Solutions With CCH and Windows Azure

Bob Familiar — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:34:00 GMT

While it's income season for most of us here in the States, for CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business, serving up sales tax information is a full-time job. In this episode of ARCast, Denny Boynton sits down with Jones Pavan and Gurleen Randhawa at the 2009 Professional Developers Conference to discuss their use of Windows Azure to build highly scalable solutions for their customers.

ARCast.TV - Using Architectural Skills to Increase Solution Adoption Success Rates

Bob Familiar — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:00:00 GMT

When solutions fail, is it too easy to blame a given platform than for those really responsible to take responsibility? It more often has to do with one's level of problem solving skills, planning, and ability to align technology with business strategy.

This discussion between Jim Wilt and Zhiming Xue explores challenges that organizations often face while adopting technologies, and discusses proven field architectural practices and some strategy tools and approaches that will assist stakeholders in becoming owners of their solutions -- taking responsibility for their outcomes. This results in greater customer satisfaction, as the focus is all about enabling problem solvers (not expecting products) to deliver successful solutions.

ARCast.TV Special - An Architects Perspective on Silverlight 3 featuring Tim Heuer

Bob Familiar — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:24:00 GMT

Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and in particular Silverlight. In this session we will step back from a detailed implementation technology and take a higher level look at Silverlight from the architect’s perspective. We will discuss the types of applications where Silverlight makes sense and some scenarios where Silverlight may not be the appropriate technology. We will also delve into some of the architectural decisions that the architect must consider when writing applications for this platform and where some of the tradeoffs may lie. - Tim Heuer

ARCast.TV - Cloud Computing is for Small Companies Too

Bob Familiar — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:53:00 GMT

Cloud Computing is often presented as an esoteric technology that is only interesting to large companies. In point of fact, small- and medium-sized companies will find the economics and technology opportunities very compelling. Shy Cohen and Michael Stiefel discuss why this is so, and why small- and medium-sized companies should look for opportunities in the cloud computing area.

ARCast.TV - Real World Software + Services Architecture: The Winchester Ballistics Calculator

Bob Familiar — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:52:00 GMT

You've no doubt heard by now a lot about software plus services as an architectural concept, but how many real world examples can you say you've seen? On this episode of ARCast, Denny Boynton sits down with Derek Jerrel from Winchester Ammunition and Jim McPherson and Jeff Fattic from Quilogy to discuss their innovative use of Silverlight, WPF and Surface to build a highly advanced and extremely cool ballistics calculator leveraging the power and agility of an S+S architectural model.

ARCast.TV - Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences, on Cloud Architecture Patterns

Bob Familiar — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:03:00 GMT

Want to know more about Microsoft Windows Azure and the Azure Services platform and how it relates to Microsoft’s “Software + Services” strategy and other cloud computing services such as Amazon EC2? Check out Dr. Zhiming Xue’s interview with Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences (AIS). Speaking from his understanding and experience, Vishwas articulates three typical styles of applications and services that may be built to take advantages of the Azure Services platform -- complete applications using the Azure AppFabric, composite applications that are integrated with services hosted and run in the cloud, and consumable services such as workflow for other applications and services.

ARCast.TV - The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com

Bob Familiar — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:07:00 GMT

‘Twas the week before the holiday season… in this interview, with Jeff Barnes from Microsoft, Ron Teblum, CEO of Catalog Enterprises Inc. and Raphael Parentes, lead graphic designer, discuss the launch of MyChristmasCatalog.com and their innovative use of Silverlight3 and Expression Blend and to deliver a truly unique one-stop, holiday shopping destination and experience.

Catalog Enterprises was one of the first registered Microsoft Bizspark Partners when the program launched almost a year ago - and now they are leading the race in e-Commerce 3.0 using Microsoft technologies. By leveraging all the rich media capabilities in Silverlight 3, they have brought together all the familiar sights and sounds of Christmas, including Christmas in New York, Silverlight games for the kids, the narrated Christmas story, Christmas for soldiers, and a truly unique shopping experience to help you find that perfect gift for those on your holiday list this season.

And don’t forget to check the Christmas Traditions section - they have digitized all the old catalogs from your childhood; Sears, Spiegel’s, Schwarz, and JC Penney’s using their proprietary print media conversion tool that converts them into digital flip-books. And using the Silverlight Deep-Zoom technology – you can once again see all the cool toys you didn’t get for Christmas…

ARCast.TV - CxO Level Discussion about Cloud Computing

Bob Familiar — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:53:00 GMT

What are the business considerations of risks and benefits when considering cloud computing options, strategies, and trends? Check out this discussion between Miha Kralj and Zhiming Xue.

ARCast.TV - Matt Hessinger on How Business drives Architecture

Bob Familiar — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:54:00 GMT

Enterprise Architects, Solutions Architects, Infrastructure Architects, and Business Analysts all work hand-in-hand to deliver value to the enterprise. In this interview, Joe Shirey talks to Matt Hessinger about the dynamics of each of these groups and some strategies for improving these dynamics.

ARCast.TV - Using LAAAM to Make Good Architectural Decisions, Fast!

Bob Familiar — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:19:00 GMT

Bob Familiar interviews Jeromy Carriere on the Lightweight Architecture Alternative Assessment Method (LAAAM), a fast and efficient way to make good architectural decisions that are aligned with the needs of your business. Making good architectural decisions early in the software development lifecycle helps reduce project risk and ensures that precious time and energy isn't wasted delivering solutions that miss the mark. This is critical in our ever-accelerating software development world. The most unique characteristic of LAAAM is its focus on defining what quality means for a given system or product. We all want to create high-quality products, but LAAAM helps us go further in determining the aspects of quality that are important to the stakeholders for a given system. The "-ilities" are commonly used, coarsely, to talk about architectural quality; however, LAAAM won't let us simply say "my system has to be scalable" or "I need flexibility". Instead, LAAAM forces us to be: a) precise in the kinds of scalability and flexibility that are important; and b) prioritize these quality attributes so that appropriate tradeoff decisions can be made. LAAAM produces a set of artifacts that represent a rigorous, rational decision making process. These artifacts are extremely valuable in justifying and communicating architectural decisions, since it's rarely possible (or even desirable) to have every stakeholder involved in every conversation. The LAAAM artifacts give us a way to express the reasoning that went into a given decision, with a foundation in the definition of quality for a system. LAAAM has been successfully applied to make decisions large and small at Microsoft, Fidelity and VistaPrint. LAAAM draws its roots from the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method developed at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

ARCast.TV - David Hill gives us an introduction to the Application Architecture Guide

Bob Familiar — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:59:00 GMT

No one will argue that the process of architecting software solutions that use available capabilities to address business needs within an organization's constraints is often a daunting task. Challenges like this can be much more approachable when you have a solid way of reasoning about all of the options using a common frame. The second edition to the wildly successful Application Architecture Guide provides just this frame. Denny Boynton interviews David Hill to get a glimpse of this architectural playbook.