On the value of pictures and statistics

Matt Hannifin, who runs Science Toy Magic (at the bottom of the stairs in the entry to our office) reminded me of two things today: 1) The value of keeping good statistics — he keeps detailed records not only of all his sales but where his leads came from, etc....

A Semantic Enterprise Architecture

We do enterprise architectures, service-oriented architectures, and semantics. I suppose it was just a matter of time until we put them together. This essay is a first look at what a semantic enterprise architecture might look like. What problem are we trying to...

The Case for the Shared Service Lite

When are Two Service Implementations Better than One? The Case for the Shared Service Lite One of the huge potential benefits of an SOA is the possibility of eliminating the need to re-implement large chunks of application functionality by using shared services.  For...