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Analyst Cam: Workday’s architectural journey

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In a February episode of Burning Platform, we hosted a back and forth on architectural trends in the industry with Sayan Chakraborty, EVP of Product and Technology at Workday.

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Burning Platform: Architectural Trends in Enterprise Software

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In the 72nd episode of Burning Platform, we host Sayan Chakraborty, EVP of Product and Technology at Workday. Sayan is, in many ways, a rocket scientist. He has degrees in aerospace engineering from MIT. He started his career as an

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IaaS Architectures

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Timely article in InformationWeek as cloud provider Nirvanix goes out of business about the scrutiny IaaS architectures will increasingly get “The size of the pipes providers use to move data into and out of their cloud is an architectural decision, Cloud Computing, SaaS

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Burning Platform: Architectural Trends in Enterprise Software

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Brian Sommer and I have recorded 12 episodes in this series - see index here. Last couple of weeks, we have had several guests Rob Kugel of Ventana, Josh Greenbaum of EA Consulting, Bonnie Tinder of Raven Intel, Frank.

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The 101 of Brand Architecture

What is ESG Investing? The tricycle of businesses

With this piece, we understand what Brand Architecture is, we look at the types of Brand Architectures and then essentially. Placements//GDPI//Interview Brand Campaigns Business concepts Marketing Branding architecture

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Selecting the Right Software for Project Portfolio Architecture

The Startup Magazine

Project portfolio architecture (PPA) is a method used by project managers and project management organizations to build and assess the possibility of a project’s success. You can learn more about portfolio architecture at [link] /.

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X Components of Information Architecture

The Startup Magazine

If you are familiar with the word UX designing, the chances are that you’ve already heard of information architecture or shortly written as IA. For more information check out Website Information Architecture.

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Start Being More Efficient Now With Enterprise Architecture

YoungUpstarts

Who should be involved in enterprise architecture? If they are the only ones that are able to influence the enterprise architecture (EA), this is suboptimal. Therefore, it the contribution of all employees to the enterprise architecture should be stimulated. Another drawback of the large involvement of people in enterprise architecture is that humans are prone to bias and manpower is expensive. What tools are able to support the development of enterprise architecture?

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Brand Architecture: What it is, Why it Matters, and How To Develop it

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The definitive guide on how brand architecture can add value to your brand to help you market, sell, and grow more efficiently. Brand Identity Growing a Business Marketing Design Marketing Strategy Small Business Marketing Startup Marketing

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Choosing The Right Mobile Application Architecture

YoungUpstarts

One way to mitigate headaches such as these is to have a clear understanding of the different mobile application architectures available. Here are four questions you should be asking when deciding on the right mobile application architecture for your enterprise: 1. Once you’ve gotten the basics sorted for each app, you should have a clearer idea of which mobile application architecture to consider, whether native, mobile or hybrid apps.

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Creativity In Architecture

crowdSPRING Blog

Tags: Awesomeness design inspiration architecture creativity designer hong kong

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Angels In The Architecture

Feld Thoughts

One of the events on our Do More Faste r book tour will be something we are calling Angels in the Architecture. The Eventbrite signups are below: Palo Alto: Tuesday 10/12/10 – 5pm – 6pm: Angels in the Architecture. Los Angeles: Thursday 10/14/10 – 4pm – 5pm: Angels in the Architecture. Seattle: Friday 10/15/10 – 4pm – 5pm: Angels in the Architecture.

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So You Want to Start Your Own Architecture Firm…

YoungUpstarts

Learning the construction process from beginning to end, even if you aren’t in control of every step, can be invaluable when you run your own architecture firm. While as an architectural firm, you might not be as involved in the process as an actual construction manager, knowing these things can help your business immensely. A Place to Find Jobs – Architecture design jobs are often awarded to the lowest bidder.

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Website Information Architecture: How to Optimize for UX

ConversionXL

Website information architecture is no joke, yet the overwhelming majority of businesses structure their site using the IMO method (“In my opinion…”). If you already have tens of pages on your site, you should do a proper information architecture analysis. What is information architecture? What’s the deliverable for an information architecture analysis? The goal is to come up with the architecture of the site.

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Popular Architectural Styles in the Residential Real Estate Market

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The architecture of a house is reflective of the personality it holds. The former Spanish and British reign brought some significant architectural forms that continue to dot the housing industry. In the architectural world, these hold great value.

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In Search of Digital Excellence

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Industry Commentary big data bpa BPE bpm business process analysis business process excellence business process management CEP complex event processing eai entarch enterprise application integration enterprise architecture enterprise service bus application enterprise software enterprise software applications esb in-memory data management integration it modernization legacy system master data management mdm service oriented architecture soa

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Getting The Website Information Architecture Right: How to Structure Your Site for Optimal User Experiences

ConversionXL

Information architecture is no joke, yet overwhelming majority of businesses have structured their site using the IMO method – “in my opinion” While common sense is a useful tool and a lot of sites are very simple (e.g. If you already have tens of pages on your site, you should do proper information architecture analysis. What is information architecture? The final goal is essentially to come up the architecture of the site.

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5 Key Capabilities Banks Should Prioritize in Their Modernization Process

The Startup Magazine

Thankfully, the modular system architecture of many current modern finance solutions makes this far easier than it used to be. In recent years, modern finance solutions have become increasingly more sophisticated, with vendors promising an overwhelming plethora of capabilities.

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CompTIA Security+ Certification for Security Administrators/Engineers – Exam Options

The Startup Magazine

The specialists with CompTIA Security+ will have competence in implementing secure systems design and network architecture concepts.

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The Importance Of Concept Design To The Product Development Process Of Businesses

The Startup Magazine

Architectural Design Outsourcing architectural design BPO concept design outsourcingBefore we delve into the importance of concept design to the product design and development process of businesses, it is imperative that we define it first. The Danish agency FORA defined concept design as “the solution to a problem that has not yet been solved or which so far has been solved unsatisfactorily.”

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Help Detained USA Citizen In Abu Dhabi

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

He’s highly qualified, with a BS in Architecture, and three Masters degrees in Visual Communication, Interior Archite cture, and Guidance/Counseling. This is a departure for this blog. While there is a direct connection to creativity and innovation it is essentially a press release written by concerned leaders in the creativity and innovation international community. One of our own, Dr. Robert Alan Black, has been detained in Abu Dhabi. The details are below.

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Space Matters: Unveiling The Kennel

K9 Ventures

K9 News The Kennel Architecture CHA:COL Creative space Design Industrial Lerch Construction SpaceIn April 2014, in the post Making Moves , I wrote about K9’s impending move to a new space and outlined my reasons for leaving downtown Palo Alto. I loved being in downtown Palo Alto, but it was simply becoming too expensive to be able to consider staying there long term. I deliberated for a long time before ultimately pulling the trigger on the move.

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6 Ways to Cut the Costs of Network Downtime

The Startup Magazine

Consider Your Cluster Architectures. It is advisable to hire a professional network architect to review your clustering architecture, which might be slowing down your systems. In the past, active-passive clusters sufficed for helping businesses recover after a failure event, but studies on this architecture show that active-passive clusters result in 34 percent greater data loss than active-active clusters.

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Thinking Of Bitcoin As A Platform

YoungUpstarts

Its architecture points the way to a more decentralized and egalitarian approach to online interaction, says Omid Malekan. Bitcoin represents a different model for building and operating a platform.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

His name is often associated with other successful Israelis such as: Shai Agassi , Better Place founder and CEO and former next-in-line to become CEO of SAP, Safra Catz , CFO and co-president of Oracle, and David Perlmutter , an EVP of Intel and GM of Intel Architecture Group. By Ben Bakhshi. Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. So far, this is just a summary of what all of us who have attempted to build web-scale architectures considers obvious. The solution is to build an architecture that works for the startup condition. To me, the optimal architecture is one that serves four goals simultaneously.

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More innovation

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On the New Florence blog Cisco’s tablet wrinkles “Social” Architecture Pyrotechnic Science Technology at the Home Depot. Innovative Business Uses of Technology

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A Brief Intro to Domain Driven Design

Austin Startup

However, we also want to make sure that we can give teams guidance about how to think about these services so that we don’t end up as a large set of mismatched services of vastly different sizes and no cohesive overarching architecture. In fact, many, many companies have used this, both in the context of microservices architectures and non-microservices architectures. tech software-architecture software-engineering software-development domain-driven-design

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We’re not that unique

Start Up Blog

architectureNew ideas for businesses are generally because we see a gap in the market. We consider not if there is a market in that gap. People are very often focused on solving imaginary problems that other people have.

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Multi-Tenancy: Where are the outsourcers?

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I was reading Phil Wainewright’s nice note on multi-tenancy “The cloud operates within a service-oriented architecture, where providers achieve economies of scale by delivering their services in volume and operating them from pooled resources.” italics mine) I drifted off wondering. Cloud Computing Offshoring (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant) Outsourcing (IBM, Accenture, EDS

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Gluecon 13: 2023

Feld Thoughts

GlueCon will occur for the thirteenth time, on May 24th-25th, in Broomfield, Colorado. My Foundry partners and I helped Kim and Eric Norlin create Gluecon in 2009 because we saw the need for a developer-focused event to explore emerging technologies around the cloud and APIs.

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Architect as Entrepreneur

The Entrepreneurial Mind

The Entrepreneurial Mind : Jamie Pfeffer- Pfeffer Torode Architecture. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Architect as Entrepreneur appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall

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Wildcard SSL Vs. Multi-Domain SSL Certificate: Why Picking The Wrong One Can Be Fatal For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Instead, one needs to look into their website’s core architecture, identify sensitive areas such as payment-related subdomains, and then pick the right option. Often, companies operating in various countries have this kind of architecture.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Just-In-Time Scalability At my previous company, we pioneered an approach to building out our infrastructure that we called "Just-In-Time Scalability."

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More New Renaissance

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on the innovation blog China’s architectural boom Not your parents’ cruise The human face of Big Data Paperless ProcessWorld Software AG innovation awards Pinterest Power You’ve got a Twitter, Pinterest and Gmail mashup The Robo-restaurant. Innovative Business Uses of Technology

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"God is in the details." Mies van der Rohe - Startups and angels.

Tim Keane

Whether you like the architecture of Mies van der Rohe or not, this particular comment does make you stop and think. Whether you like the architecture of Mies van der Rohe or not, this particular comment does make you stop and think. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « We Only Need 1% of The Total Market!

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The year that was and the one that will be

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On New Florence been running the best of 2012 Best 2012 photos Discover Magazine - Top 2012 Science Stories The Culture Street Journal - WSJ on best of 2012 art, architecture Scientific American’s 2012 “Game changers” Fortune’s Top Businesspersons of.

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Throwback analysis

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Fittingly I saw it courtesy of Naomi Bloom, another market watcher who can talk object models and multi-tenancy architectures all day long. I loved this Curt Monash update on Workday. They remind me of colleagues in the 90s at Gartner. Industry Commentary

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One million HTTP RPS without load balancing is easy

TechEmpower

Especially poignant is the reduced architectural complexity that an application can reap if its performance requirement can be satisfied by a single server. You probably still want at least two servers for resilience, but even after accounting for resilience, your architectural complexity will likely remain simpler than with hundreds of instances. But the simplified system architecture and cost advantage of high-performance options deserve some time in the sun.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 9

TechEmpower

Of course, other variables are at play, such as significantly more HT processor cores--40 versus 8 for our i7 tests--and a different system architecture, NUMA. The NUMA architecture presented a variety of challenges including unexpected difficulty scaling the database servers to utilize all available CPU cores. The latest round of our ongoing Framework Benchmarks project is now available!

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The Application Development Landscape – 2012 and beyond

For Entrepreneurs

Today’s application developers are faced with a broad set of architectural decisions that can make or break their company going forward. This presentation, which was given as a keynote for the MassTLC application development conference, highlights the major changes that are taking place in the world of application development. The Application Development Landscape – 2011 [.]. Startup Help

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Every New Venture Needs A Product And A Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions. Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business.

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The Dawn of Generative AI

View from Seed

Experimentation will soon yield commercial applications in fields such as marketing and architecture , which in no way detracts from the beauty of what’s authentically happening in some of the hobbyist communities that have sprung up around these tools.