What is a Platform?
Hi Fellow Architects - Here are some common questions Architects often have to deal with when trying to build/ define a Platform. Of course, I would like to hear from the experienced among you to seed this discussion. What is the purpose of the Platform? Is it for others to build business capabilities or else is this for serving up some business capability that is your competitive advantage. The former may be called Infrastructure as a Service and the later Information as a Service. This informs your decision on how much of the interface to expose. The first, Infrastructure as a Service, requires you tighten the integration and management interface and the integration pathways via strict SLAs and service contracts that drive both the infrastructure usage patterns, infrastructure management and billing. The later, Information as a Service, drives you to define the service contract that is unique to your business needs with very tight service definition and service usage crit