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Getting Started With A Collaboration Architecture

By Bryan - Posted on 07 January 2008

"So it’s January 2008 and like all good collaboration managers, you’ve vowed that this will be the year your organization crafts a comprehensive “Collaboration Architecture” covering tools, processes, and policies for collaboration in your organization. Easy right? Well………"

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IBM developerWorks: Enterprise architecture essentials

By Bryan - Posted on 30 July 2007

A promising (I hope) new series of articles on enterprise architecture posted on IBM's developerWorks site:

Enterprise architecture essentials, Part 1: What's best for your organization? - Every organization has unique business needs, so a variety of factors are important when planning an enterprise architecture approach for your company. In this article, examine elements you should take into consideration when planning a new or revised enterprise architecture.

Drupal and Joomla comparison

By Bryan - Posted on 05 December 2006

On a recent visit to Drupal's forum I found another post with both Joomla and Drupal in the subject line. Making comparisons between Joomla and Drupal are very common these days as they are currently considered the top two open source content management systems (CMS) out there. The forum post written by Steve Burge contains a link that takes you to a comparison table he did between Joomla and Drupal. While the table may not give the full picture of each CMS, I'm convinced that Burge tried to be as non-bias as he possibly could in his comparison.

There is something interesting about the table posted at Burge's site. Specifically, take a look at which elements according to Burge each CMS excels in and which elements each CMS fails. Did you notice a particular pattern in where each CMS is considered to have failed? If not, perhaps you didn't see the excerpt I posted earlier from Gadgetopia's Deane Barker, titled Architecture and Functionality in Content Management.

Gadgetopia: Architecture and Functionality in Content Management

By Bryan - Posted on 29 November 2006

"These are not specific, detailed functional questions (“does the system automatically generate RSS”). While those are important as well (see below the list for more on that), a system begins with its grand architecture, and I’ve found that this foundation really drives everything else."

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