Mike Walker's Ramblings about Industry Architecture
FSTC Enterprise Architecture Workgroup Session Update
The FSTC Enterprise Architecture workgroup session by far has been the most interesting and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/16/2006
JUST RELEASED: MSDN Banking Industry Center for Architects
The new site MSDN Banking Industry Center will provide prescriptive architecture guidance addressing...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/14/2006
MOSS 2007 Resource Links Rollup (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server)
Mark Kruger created a comprehensive rollup of resources for MOSS based technologies. Links include:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/12/2006
Aircraft hits New York Building!
This isn't technology related but shocking! I'm in NYC right now at the FSTC Annual Meeting so it's...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/11/2006
Serivce Oriented Architecture in Banking
I was recently saw a post on the MSDN forums about SOA and Banking. I thought I would share my...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/11/2006
Microsoft ESB Architecture Guidance
At the SOA/BPM conference we announced that we are providing ESB architecture guidance. This will...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/08/2006
Microsoft SOA Business Process Conference
I will be attending the Microsoft SOA Business Process Conference from October 3rd - 6th. I will be...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/02/2006
Virtual PC 2007 Beta Program
From October 11th till the end March nominations will be accepted for beta enrollment with the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/30/2006
I will be attending the FSTC Annual Meeting
DSCN0526 Hosted on Zooomr If you are do not know FSTC I would check out their website. They have...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/30/2006
Get Windows Vista!
I have been running Windows Vista RC1 on my primary desktop with Office 2007 RC1 for 2 weeks with...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/28/2006
Disaster Recovery in Financial Services
Recently I was asked about what technologies should be considered for Disaster Recovery and Business...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/27/2006
TechEd Webcasts from Boston to London
Watch the best of Tech.Ed US in high quality video, on-demand, on it's Showtime! Windows Vista...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/14/2006
Live no longer Beta
We announced yesterday the beta tags have been taken off! Along with the release of these two key...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/14/2006
Rural Banking in India
Doug Mahugh posted an interesting article regarding rural banking customers. An article in the Times...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/01/2006
Microsoft's Architecture Strategy Team Blog Site
SkyScrapr which was just recently launched this summer is a site that is broken out into four major...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/30/2006
Branch Office Infrastructure Solution (BOIS) Release 2
A common misconception I hear is that Microsoft does not address vertical oriented solutions. In an...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/30/2006
IE 7.0 RC1
The release candidate 1 has been released! I've been using IE 7.0 Beta 2 and 3 for some time now and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/28/2006
Viewing Office 2007 files in Office 2003
Do you have 2007 file formats sent to you while your corporation is stuck in Office XP or 2003...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/24/2006
Microsoft to host IFX Sessions in Redmond
This week we will host several session for this years face to face meetings. I will be fuly engaged...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/21/2006
ATMs and Web Services - Is there a business case?
I had an interesting conversation with some folks in the standards community about this today. Many...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/05/2006
Sun and Microsoft do the Tango
Sun has been working with Microsoft's WCF team to ensure interoperability between the two stacks....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/15/2006
Other Industry Architecture
There are a total of 4 new sites just released on the MSDN Architecture Center. The industries...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/08/2006
Financial Services Industry Architecture Guidance
Architects and developers working in vertical industries face challenges that require unique...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/05/2006
Office 2007 the next platform for Business Applications
If you haven’t checked out the new Office 2007, you should! From all perspectives, especially from a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/01/2006
So what is Industry Architecture?
I am often asked the question, what is Industry Architecture and why should I care? Well in very...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/23/2006
Signing On
Hello my name is Mike Walker. I recently joined Microsoft as the Financial Services Strategic...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/16/2006