Stephan is Staying!

With a jolt of happiness I received the news that our support guru Stephan will not leave us after all! Not only will he stay, he will head Zystems’ legendary support team from now on. This will be truly exciting. Stephan alone is holding approximately half of all the 100+ certifications awarded to Zystemites. I’m kidding, but only slightly !

Welcome back, Stephan, even though you never really left!

New Stuff

As I’ve talked about before, we have a concept called the Baseline Start-kit. It is basically a combination of a set of well defined services combined with reusable Baseline assets, such as naming conventions, document templates and software components.

Last week me and a couple of colleagues spent 5 days putting together a Baseline Start-kit for DataPower. It was the first time we made such a focused effort, and it was great fun, as well as efficient. In the past, Baseline artifact have been harvested piecemeal over longer period of times. Now we feel that the Baseline Start-kit framework, as well as the existing Baseline structure is solid enough to work as a template for new products and domains. In the pipeline, WSRR and BPM are awaiting similar treatment. Check back!

SOA Explained

I recently came across this nifty little SOA primer animation. It is a really good, condensed “SOA Elevator Pitch”. If you want to convey the essentials of SOA to your boss or any other person that doesn’t seem to get it, you may want to try this one.