One of my friends and mentors, Bill Vass of Liquid Robotics, has consistently advised IT professionals to understand, respect and use the power of well formed IT architecture. Bill has often reminded me and others that architecture is design. If you have poor design, or if you have good design that is ignored, then the [...]
An Introduction to Kapow Software
March 17, 2012 By
Kapow software provides application integration capabilities that provide rapid enhancements in IT support to organizational missions. Their Kapow Katalyst Application Integration Platform is designed to enable the fast delivery of capabilities, and it does so via an easy to understand and use interface. Kapow eliminates the need for APIs to access application data. This is [...]
SOA vs Cloud Computing: Tracking the cross-over in hype
June 4, 2011 By
FBI Database Search and Discovery Capability Called DIVS is Best In Class
April 15, 2011 By
I was recently treated to a demonstration of a mission-focused IT solution that made me proud of what technologists at FBI can do. What I saw was a best in class integration of search, discovery and analysis tools known as DIVS (Data Integration and Visualization System). DIVS includes a framework that allows multiple tools, COTS [...]
2010 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference
May 21, 2010 By
The 2010 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held 23-27 May in Phoenix Arizona. This venue is hosted by the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Directorate for Information Management and Chief Information Officer. The focus is on topics relevant to mission success for the Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS). DoDIIS is all about facilitating the collection, [...]
Working with Adobe Flex: From idea to application in very short order
December 5, 2009 By
Adobe Flex is a software development approach and environment which enables the production of cross-platform Rich Internet Applications. Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is the cross-platform runtime environment used by Flex (as well as Flash, HTML, JavaScript and AJAX) for deployment of desktop applications. I’ve long known the power of Flex and AIR, and have long [...]
