Welcome to the ISV architecture forum. The goal of this community is to create a forum where architects from Independent Solution Vendors (ISV??) can discuss solutions architecture and how to implement these using the Microsoft platform. Since no application is an island, topics can include Identity and Access management, how to integrate and interoperate with other platforms and systems as well as other topics architects care about such as security, related tools and processes.

A broad architecture forum will of course create some overlap with other one-topic-forums, but with an ISV specific forum I hope we can discuss these topics from the viewpoint of a solutions architect working for an ISV. 

I spent 20+ years of my life in the software industry in many different roles. In my current role I work as an architect advisor in Microsoft?? Technology Centre (MTC) in Copenhagen together with a team of subject matter experts. In this role I work with ISVs from all over Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) across verticals on architectural designs and reviews, process guidance etc.

You can see more about the MTCs at http:///www.microsoft.com/mtc and I?? also starting a blog on similar topics at http://blogs.msdn.com/baladi.