Platform Concepts was created...

To provide a new approach and innovative strategy for building, managing, and investing in Internet information systems.


The benefits provided by the current information technology approaches are stagnating. A new paradigm for investing in and building enterprise information systems is needed. We have developed a platform strategy for:

Information and technology are so deeply interwoven into how companies do business that it is critical to stop thinking of business strategy and information strategy as two separate endeavors. This is why at Platform Concepts we spend so much time focussing on investment decisions in conjunction with information solution decisions.


Interdependence

Business strategy, information, technology, and innovation are interdependent. The common tactic is to approach business strategy and technology solution implementation as two separate, isolated endeavors.

Investing decisions often require large technology input. Yet decision makers (investors and executives) rarely seek the insight of hands on technology experts. Strategic technology decisions are often largely made by programmers who are completely isolated from any insight into the strategic impact of the decision.

These two groups, decision makers and technology leaders, often approach opportunities from far different perspectives using much different vocabularies; often with dissapointing results.  It is time to shatter the Chinese wall separating these two groups. Our platform perspective creates a strategic bridge - with a common vocabulary - between these two groups.


How Enterprises approach IT is wrong

Enterprises are building web solutions using object-oriented approaches from the client/server paradigm. This approach to web solutions and collaborations is collapsing under its own complexity.  Yet onward many march, even though the Inherent limitations of distributed object systems is apparent.  SOA, SOAP, the WS-* stack, and monolithic packaged software are flat out not working.

It is time we look beyond object-oriented design. Tim Berners-Lee and his team did not design the Internet for object-oriented systems. So we are we still stuck in the old paradigm?

The companies that led the client/server revolution are primarily still the companies setting the standards for the Internet paradigm. The traditional leaders have done a great job selling their conventional software using exciting buzzword architecture. This is causing enterprises to use incorrect information technology strategy and implement cumbersome inflexible costly solutions.

Using our platform perspective we incorporate these ideas into an enterprise solution architecture.  We layout this architecture at both a high-level strategic vantage point and at a solution implementation point of view using the same vocabulary.  By doing this our solution enables the strategists in the boardroom and implementers on the ground to speak the same language.


Information Technology is pervasive

Technology isn't an industry; it is a force that changes industries.  Thanks to the internet information technology impacts every industry.  It is dangerous to view information technology as an isolated industry. Technology is only defined based on the point in history in which it is referenced.  In today's information age information technology has been and will continue driving change.

Using our platform perspective we have identified the three mega trends that are driving information technology forward and have developed a process to help companies take advantage of these mega trends. It is time to re-think how we incorporate technology into our strategy