Of late I'm thinking a lot more on the subject. How to make a transition from Senior Technical Lead into an Architect role. I must confess transition to an architect role is easy compared to my previous other roles. There are definitely reasons to it, but not delve into that now.
To become an architect you need gain knowledge of various business verticals of an enterprise IT. Ranging from customer acquisitions, sales, marketing, promotions, budget, technology roadmap, hosting, etc and etc.
In the all above business verticles there is an emphasis specific set of IT knowledge.
Sales lead generation technical domain
For example, for Customer acquisition you need to be acquainted with lead generation process. Who is the market leader in sales lead generation? Who is the leader in space? It's SalesForce. Going through the salesforce.com business case studies, you will get an idea of how fortunes 500 companies are using Salesforce to enable their respective companies business.
Salesforce business case study examples
Content Mangement technical domain
From sales lead generation if you move to marketing you will companies spent considerable amount money on content management solution. CMS helps companies become expressive about their products on web properties so that potential customers can refer the content.
In this CMS space they are many names. I'm reading more on Sitecore and how using which enterprises are building content to meet their marketing strategies.
sitecore CMS solution customer bussines case studies
Enterprise application CLOUD hosting
When it comes to hosting nowadays it makes lot more sense to consider public CLOUD.Again in the public cloud who is the market leader? It's definitely Amazon AWS with close to 30% market share.
Most fortune 500 companies are using AMAZON AMS nowadays. So reading about AMAZON Cloud AMS business case studies will definitely help you understand how enterprises are building business-critical apps with less budget and in less time.
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