7/13/2006

Intranet Trends to Watch for in 2006 - Part I


Intranet Trends to Watch for in 2006 - Part I



Over at Patrick Dodd's weblog, Shadowbox Studios, he has just shared an interesting weblog post taken from the recent CIO article by Shiv Singh on Intranet Trends to Watch for in 2006



Things that really caught my eye in this article:



  • User Experience is starting to matter


  • AJAX is coming to an Intranet near you

How to Manage a Supersized Architecture


How to Manage a Supersized Architecture


I don't know whether it has surfaced during any of my previous posts, but I don't really like "Architects" who speak about Enterprise Architecture in theory. There are many reasons for this fact, but today I'll focus on one that is burning me at the moment: Scalability.



This is an interesting article about Enterprise Architecture tools and what happens when the repositories get really large.  I'm a consultant, and I haven't had any experience with maintaining these systems.  However, I can easily see this scenario playing out in large organizations.  In fact, I suspect that at some organizations the repository stops being used because it becomes cumbersome to architects.