Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 8: Strategic Impacts, and Conclusion

This is the eighth and last in a series of posts (first, previous) in which I am exploring five key technology themes which will shape our work in the coming decade. The Strategic Business Impacts of our Technology Themes Having analyzed our five technology themes, and explored their operational impacts, let’s look at the strategic … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 8: Strategic Impacts, and Conclusion →

Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 7: Operational Impacts

This is the seventh in a series of posts (first, next, previous) in which I am exploring five key technology themes which will shape our work in the coming decade. The Operational Business Impacts of our Technology Themes Having analyzed our five technology themes, let’s look at how the technology tapestry we’ve woven from those interrelated … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 7: Operational Impacts →

Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 6: The Right-Sizing of Information Tools

This is the sixth in a series of posts (first, next, previous) in which I am exploring five key technology themes which will shape our work in the coming decade: The Emergence of the Individual Narrative;The Increasing Perfection of Information;The Primacy of Decision Contexts;The Realization of Rapid Solution Development;The Right-Sizing of Information Tools. The Right-Sizing of … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 6: The Right-Sizing of Information Tools →

Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 5: The Realization of Rapid Application Development

This is the fifth in a series of posts (first, next, previous) in which I am exploring five key technology themes which will shape our work in the coming decade: The Emergence of the Individual Narrative;The Increasing Perfection of Information;The Primacy of Decision Contexts;The Realization of Rapid Solution Development;The Right-Sizing of Information Tools. At Last, the … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 5: The Realization of Rapid Application Development →

Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 4: The Primacy of Decision Contexts

This is the fourth in a series of posts (first, next, previous) in which I am exploring five key technology themes which will shape our work in the coming decade: The Emergence of the Individual Narrative;The Increasing Perfection of Information;The Primacy of Decision Contexts;The Realization of Rapid Solution Development;The Right-Sizing of Information Tools. The Primacy of … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 4: The Primacy of Decision Contexts →

Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 3: The Increasing Perfection of Information

This is the third in a series of posts (first, next, previous) in which I am exploring five key technology themes which will shape and inform information technology work in the coming decade: The Emergence of the Individual Narrative;The Increasing Perfection of Information;The Primacy of Decision Contexts;The Realization of Rapid Solution Development;The Right-Sizing of Information Tools. … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 3: The Increasing Perfection of Information →

Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 2: Emergence of the Individual Narrative

This is the second in a series of posts (first, next, previous) in which I am exploring five key technology themes which will shape our work in the coming decade: The Emergence of the Individual Narrative;The Increasing Perfection of Information;The Primacy of Decision Contexts;The Realization of Rapid Solution Development;The Right-Sizing of Information Tools. In today's … Continue reading Five Key Technology Themes Which Will Shape the Coming Decade, Part 2: Emergence of the Individual Narrative →

CONQUER Part 3: Flames from Agile Burning in the Back Office Light the Way

This is the third part of a series describing the Command, Notify, Query (CONQUER) distributed systems architecture: distributed systems are information tools enabling volitional entities in relationships of permission and obligation to achieve their ends via purposeful dialogs, communicated among software components proxying their wills, consisting of imperative, declarative, and interrogative sentences: commands, notifications, and … Continue reading CONQUER Part 3: Flames from Agile Burning in the Back Office Light the Way →

CONQUER Part 2: The Will that Powers

This is the second part of a series describing the Command, Notify, Query (CONQUER) distributed systems architecture: distributed systems are information tools enabling volitional entities in relationships of permission and obligation to achieve their ends via purposeful dialogs, communicated among software components proxying their wills, consisting of imperative, declarative, and interrogative sentences: commands, notifications, and … Continue reading CONQUER Part 2: The Will that Powers →

The CONQUER Architecture for Distributed Systems, Part 1 of Probably Too Many but Hopefully Just Enough

Some time between 2010 and 2013 I began thinking differently about integration, both among components of distributed applications and among distributed applications per se. I know the rough time span because I published an integration reference architecture here in 2010 that did not feature the new ideas, and one in 2013 that did - well, … Continue reading The CONQUER Architecture for Distributed Systems, Part 1 of Probably Too Many but Hopefully Just Enough →