IT Management

Platform Solution and Planning

The Platform Solution Center helps you get more out of your platform investments and provides guidance on future investments. With these tools you can easily find the information needed to build your own platform story.

Integrated Enterprise Platform

All-up Platform Solutions

The Platform Solution Center helps IT Managers plan their technology investments by focusing on reusable capabilities critical to the success of their business. By considering each capability in terms of how it fits into the overall platform IT Managers can optimize and secure their IT infrastructure, create agility through innovation and reduce costs.

Platform Solution Blueprint series
IT Manager Podcast: Platform Solution Blueprints: Service Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management
Implementing a service-orientated architecture (SOA) that incorporates business process management (BPM) can benefit a business in three ways. First the SOA architecture can help increase your organization's agility as it responds to rapidly changing business conditions. Second, an SOA architecture can empower you to combine data from previously separate systems and to view and understand it in new ways to help optimize your business. Third, by adding BPM to the architecture you can optimize the processes in your organization to help ensure that you are doing the correct activities. With monitoring and management activities you can also know if there are problems with services and you can take proactive measures to fix them before they impact your business.
IT Manager Poster: Platform Solution Blueprint - Virtualization
The Virtualization Platform Solution Blueprint Poster by Advaiya gives IT managers a comprehensive view of how Virtualization technology works within their IT environment.

Platform Solution Blueprints

Infrastructure Optimization SolutionsRSS

Diana WilliamsDiana Williams

Product Manager,
Microsoft Corporation

What is Core IO?
Microsoft's Core Infrastructure Optimization ("Core IO") model takes into account an organization's people, process, and technology to help Technical Decision Makers and IT managers assess where they are today and plan to achieve their desired IT vision.

Whether you need an understanding of where you are as an organization or are balancing conflicting solutions, a comprehensive approach to infrastructure optimization will help you make decisions for your organization—in your terms and on your schedule.

I encourage you to find out more about the model and how it benefits IT managers.

Application Platform SolutionsRSS

Sherri BrouwerSherri Brouwer

Group Product Manager,
Microsoft Corporation

What is the Application Platform?
The Microsoft Application Platform is a set of integrated technologies and tools that enable your business to innovate and create strategic advantage. By enabling you to extend and unlock the value in your existing applications, and to rapidly develop new applications that differentiate you from your competition, you can make significant gains in time to value, productivity, and total cost of ownership.

The Application Platform Optimization Solution Center consolidates the information you need in order to get the most out of your application platform. Respected industry leaders share their insights, research, and knowledge; they also answer questions that are relevant to the challenges you face every day.

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Business Productivity SolutionsRSS

Molly McCarthyMolly McCarthy

Product Manager,
Microsoft Corporation

How can BPIO and SOA Solutions help me?
Whether you work in a large or a small company, Microsoft can provide the guidance and solutions to help you address specific Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process needs. From industry specific guidance and vertical frameworks to horizontal infrastructure patterns and practices, Microsoft offers a wide portfolio of solutions for the design, development, deployment and management of SOA and Business Process solutions.

The Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization (BPIO) Solutions Center is where you will find the tools and communities dedicated to helping organization grow and mature their overall business productivity.

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