March 28th is all about Hadoop!
The pressures to produce meaningful information from ever larger data sets is a growing trend in software engineering. With the democratization of big data solutions such as Hadoop on Azure and Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, we now have the right tools to address this need. Join Sam Martindale at VNext Dallas on March 28 as he covers everything Hadoop. The talk will start with the basic concepts behind Hadoop such as map /reduce and then move onto real world examples involving using Amazon EMR and Hadoop on Azure. As co-founder and Chief...
read moreStrategic Partnership with Intralearn Announced!
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read moreAgile Adoption – What is it?
So you’ve gone Agile – How is that working for you? With increased exposure, many organizations are trying to become more “Agile”. But what does that mean exactly? How the term “Agile” is interpreted can lead to different processes even within one organization. In many cases, “going Agile” can mean as little as “we will do what we want to do” to “we have no discipline or process whatsoever”. These are extreme cases, however with most organizations legitimately trying to change the way they think about or do software...
read moreAI Announced as Preferred Implementation Partner for Intralearn Corporation
IntraLearn Software and Architecting Innovation Announce Strategic Partnership Northboro, MA November 13, 2012 – IntraLearn Software Corporation (ISC), a leading provider of Learning Management Systems (LMS), today announced their partnership with information technology and services company Architecting Innovation (AI). AI will provide integration, customization, and consulting services for ISC’s eLearning products. In 2011, ISC and AI joined forces to review the eLearning solution for a top healthcare services provider with...
read morenRepo open sourced!
At Architecting Innovation, we have worked on countless projects and spent years utilizing a variety of our own internal libraries designed to make our lives easier. One such library is our (internally very popular) nRepo project. With dozens of production deployments, nRepo is a .NET framework designed to abstract the data access mechanism away, and provide a consistent and repeatable repository pattern for your applications. Designed with a fluent configuration interface, and specifically intended to make data access decisions trivial, nRepo...
read moreFREE Agile Planning Poker!
AI is pleased to announce the 0.5 (BETA) version of our new software line, http://www.kanBoom.com KanBoom is intended to offer real-time team integration in the often cumbersome activity of performing planning poker. We plan to release many more feature sets, and have a very robust roadmap ahead of us! Please feel free to use our application, and provide feedback so that we can continually improve the platform as we grow the offering. Further, it should be noted that the KanBoom platform is built upon Architecting Innovation’s open...
read moreAutomating your Build: Part I
AUTOMATED BUILDS At AI, we are strong proponents of paying down technical debt in order to enable teams to move faster and with less technical overhead. At the core of such practices within the development community is the concept of automated build and deployment practices. Sadly, we find within a majority of our clients that there is a massive underinvestment in this area that inevitably results in a multitude of problems and increased time to market on new initiatives. This led us to the desire to share our findings and approach to...
read moreFighting for the Users
In our previous articles, we looked at some hard questions regarding building a custom solution as well as buying a commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) solution. Both articles focused on the ability of the solution to provide adequate expertise and long term support whether from your own IT department or an external vendor. In this article, the focus switches to how business users will be affected, specifically regarding training, feedback, and if any knowledge base exists around the solution. I fight for the users Remember the character Tron...
read moreShould You Buy Off-The-Shelf Software
In our last article, we discussed hard questions to consider when deciding to custom build your IT solution. Competency of skills, length of time required, impact to other projects, and the ability to provide ongoing support and upgrades all need to be taken into account for a home-grown solution. After reading the last article, you might wonder if it is just best to buy a commercial, off-the-shelf solution (COTS) and skip the hard work of analyzing your situation. Not so fast! Choosing to purchase your technology solutions comes with...
read moreHow To Decide If You Should Build A Custom Solution
In our second installment addressing custom builds vs buying existing technology, I’m going to focus on evaluating your ability to custom build a solution. (If you missed it, here is the link to the first article: Buying VS Building) Can you do it? It all comes down to this: Can you custom build a solution to meet your identified needs? You might be tempted to answer yes, believing that with enough time and access to Google anything is possible. After all, isn’t the tendency towards “creative problem solving” the reason...
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