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Reimagining Experiences Using Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud
Pankaj Arora
This is a guest post by Pankaj Arora, leader of the Modern IT Innovation Group with teams in Redmond, Washington and Hyderabad, India. Pankaj's previous post on Modern IT principles is located
and for more on Microsoft IT's modernization strategy, including real world examples, watch the video at the bottom of this post.
As the IT organization within Microsoft, we're committed to reimagining enterprise experiences using the technology megatrends including: social, mobile, analytics and cloud. As we think about trends and the future of IT, it has evolved beyond users simply bringing consumer devices into the enterprise—they also are bringing in expectations. The 180,000 users of IT services at Microsoft expect great user experiences that rival consumer apps, built with the agility seen through updates to their favorite apps and services. The proliferation of devices and services means they are increasingly savvy technology users and better understand the possibilities.
I find that large enterprises are challenged to meet these expectations given the complex legacy ecosystems, as well as data and capabilities trapped within application and organizational silos. In efforts to innovate and adopt the megatrends enterprises also run the risk of creating too many new apps—clutter that makes life harder for users. Therefore, a key strategy we are pursuing is to create reusable services and holistic unconstrained experiences that together can streamline the creation and delivery of application capabilities. Key takeaways to this approach include:
Build reusable services, not application features.
These are services that transcend apps and foster a deep shared services model, as opposed to building app-specific features that are locked within that context. A shared services model eventually creates an agility snowball effect—efficiencies that can be directed towards high-value activities like innovation.
Build experiences for multiple platforms, yet think about app consolidation.
Services reuse can power multiple device experiences, such as across phones and tablets. While new device experiences may translate into more apps, the counterbalance is deciding what should be individual apps versus a more holistic experience. For example, does an enterprise really need numerous approval apps? For most organizations, I believe one streamlined app that connects to the services powering major approval scenarios is an ideal experience. In terms of platforms,
recent data from Microsoft
shows more than half of our users (and growing) want request management scenarios, such as approvals, available on phones and tablets.
Be user-centric instead of organization-centric.
Don't let org charts define the app. Instead pivot off users or segments of users. Build intelligent apps that address their needs and work across business groups. The reason many organizations have so many similar apps, such as the approvals example, often has to do with building apps within an org-centric framework – each org silo creates similar apps. So make the user the customer looking outside-in, and keep in mind success isn't just implementing the right business logic – it's providing an experience users love and adopt.
Utilize the latest trends along the way.
The tech megatrends are a means to an end. Utilize the cloud to build highly-scalable, reusable services, and benefit from its reduced operational overhead. Social, analytics, and concepts like location awareness can help build intelligent "digital assistant" style apps that add further to the user experience. Delivering for "mobile-first" is a popular sentiment. A lot of web traffic has already moved to mobile, and the limited form factor of phones mandates simplicity in the experience—simplicity that can set the tone and design patterns for other eventual platforms like tablet – an added benefit of mobile-first.
How an organization delivers is of vital importance. We recommend an agile, iterative approach. Work fast, get feedback early and often. Build storyboards with designers and users—not lengthy business requirements documents with managers. Think big, but start small; identify low risk scenarios that can be reimagined as a starting point. It's often best to come to the table with a prototype to accelerate the conversation and buy-in.
For more information on our approach, including three Microsoft IT examples that together highlight the agility snowball effect in action, watch the video
(start at 8:50 to jump to the device and app examples, 11:10 to jump to the demos):
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Blake Lively and Penn Badgley both partied hard on New Year's Eve ... just not with each other. Both made E! Online's "Party Girl" report, however!
Penn was very hands-on with a girl who looks nothing like his ex, dancing (and making out) with an exotic-looking brunette at Liv nightclub in Miami.
Moreover, they were standing on the tabletops for all the see!
The newly single guy was living it up alongside co-star Chace Crawford, Matthew Morrison, JC Chasez, Lauren Conrad, Kyle Howard and others.
As for why Penn was hanging with that random crew (minus Chace), a source says they share the same manager, who flew them down to party.
Ah, that makes perfect sense. That's how we choose where and with whom to go clubbing, am I right guys? As for his former lady love Blake ...
They were there for the Cosmopolitan Hotel's star-studded opening.
The girls were spotted arm-in-arm post-performance. Unlike Penn, Blake wasn't interested in anyone from the opposite sex during her NYE revelry.
It's okay. She's got Ryan Gosling waiting in the wings when and if she's ready to move on. And our own Gossip Guy. Call him Blake, he's waiting.

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The Heather in Lore, Lyric and Lay
Heather Lays
"My mother sang a plaintive song,Which winter nights beguiled;
And as its echoes died along,She wept, and yet she smiled.'My child,' she said�I hear her yet,Her kind eyes bent on mine;
'Thou'rt young, and dost
perchance forgetThat
native land of thine;�
That land of heath and mountain gray,So far from you and me.'"
A Sprig of Heath
Flower of the waste! the heathfowl shuns, For
thee, the brake and tangled wood, To thy protecting shade she runs:Thy tender buds supply her food; Her young
forsake her downy plumes, To rest upon thy opening blooms.
Flower of the desert, though thou art,The deer that range the mountain free, The
graceful doe, the stately hartTheir food and shelter seek from thee; The bee
thy earliest blossom greets,And draws from thee her choicest sweets.
Gem of the heath! whose modest bloomSheds beauty o'er the lonely moor; Though thou
dispense no rich perfume,Nor yet with splendid tints allure, Both
valour's crest and beauty's bower Oft hast thou deck'd a favorite
Flower of the wild! whose purple glow Adorns
the dusky mountain's side, Not the gay hues of Iris' bow,Nor garden's artful varied pride, With all its
wealth of sweets could cheer, Like thee, the hardy mountaineer.
Flower of my heart! thy fragrance mild,Of peace and freedom seem to breathe; To pluck
thy blossoms in the wild,And deck my bonnet with the wreath, Where
dwelt of old my rustic sires,Is all my simple wish requires.Flower of my dear-loved native land!
Alasl when distant, far more dear,When I, from some cold foreign strand,Look homeward through the blinding tear, How
must my aching heart deploreThat home and thee, I see no more!�Mrs. Grant, of Laggan.
The Flowers of Scotland
What are the flowers of Scotland,All others that excel�The lovely flowers of Scotland,All others that excel?The thistle's purple bonnet,And bonny heather-bell,O, they're the flowers
of Scotland, All others that excel!
Though England eyes her rosesWith pride she'll ne'er forego, The rose has
oft been troddenBy foot
of haughty foe;But the
thistle in her bonnet blueStill nods outow'r the fell,And dares the proudest foemanTo tread the heather-bell.
For the wee bit leaf o' Ireland,Alack and well a-day!For ilka hand is free to pu'An' steal the gem away.But the thistle in her bonnet blueStill bobs aboon them a';At her the bravest darena blink,Or gi'e his mou' a thraw.
Up wi' the flowers o' Scotland,The emblems o' the free,Their guardians for a thousand years,Their guardians still we'll be.A fie had better brave the deilWithin his reeky cell,Than our thistle's purple bonnet,Or bonny heather-bell.�James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd.
A Sprig of White Heather
A sprig of white heather I pluck'd on the brae;
To whom shall I give it?To whom shall I give it?Not to the sportive, the light, and the gay,
Not to Jessie with flashing display,In the flush of June, when the roses are out,
Flinging her frolicsome fancies aboutBut beautiful Phoebe, to thee, to thee,Thou deep-thoughted Phoebe, to thee!
A sprig of white heather I pluck'd on the brae;
To whom shall I give it?To whom shall I give it?Not to the haughty, the high, and the proud,
Not to Clotilda, who sails through the crowd With a lofty look and a
fine disdain,As if all
were born to hold her train;But beautiful Phoebe, to thee, to thee, Thou
mild-eyed Phoebe, to thee!
A sprig of white heather I pluck'd on the brae;To whom shall I give it?To whom shall I give it?Not to the clever, the keen, and the knowing,
With eye never resting, and tongue ever going, Not to Rebecca, who
all has readThat goes,
and goes not into hear head;But beautiful Phoebe, to thee; to thee,Thou silently-loving, to thee!
A sprig of white heather I pluck'd on the brae;
To whom shall I give it?To whom shall I give it?I'll give it to one, or I'll give it to none,
I'll give it to Ph9ebe, my beautiful one;The rare white bloom that peeps from the brae
So chaste and so pure 'mid the purple display;It grew, dear Phoebe, for thee, for thee,Thou rarest and fairest, for thee!�John Stuart Blackie.
The Heather
Though with the rose's flaring crimson dyeThe heath flower's modest blossom ne'er can vie,
Nor to the bland caresses of the galeOf morn, like her, expand the purple veil,The swain, who 'mid her fragrance finds repose,
Prefers her tresses to the gaudy rose,And bids the wild bee, her companion come To
soothe his slumbers with her airy hum.
Sweet, modest flower, in lonely deserts dun
Retiring still for converse with the sun,Whose sweets invite the soaring lark to stoop
And from thy cells the buried dew-drop scoop Though unobtrusive all
thy beauties shine Yet boast thou rival of the purple vine IFor once thy mantling juice was seen to laugh
In pearly cups, which monarchs loved to quaff; And frequent waked
the wild inspired layOn
Teviot's hills beneath the Pictish sway.�Leyden.
The glowing furze, the "bonny broom,"The thistle, and the heather;The blue-bell and the gowan fair,Which childhood likes to gather.�Robert Chambers.
The Faded Heather
It is recorded of the Highland emigrants to Canada
that they wept because the Heather would not grow in their newly adopted
There may be some too brave to weepO'er poverty or care or wrongWithin whose manly bosoms sleepEmotions gentle, warm and strong; Which wait
the wakening of a tone,
Unmarked, unthought of by the crowd, And seeming unto them aloneA voice both eloquent and loud;And then the feelings, hid for years,Burst forth at length in burning tears.
He wept, that hardy mountaineer,When faded thus his loved heath flower.Yet 'mid the ills of life, no tearHad wet his cheek until that hour;You might have deemed the mountain treeHad sooner shrunk before the blast, Or that
his native rock should beBent by the winds which hurried past, Rather
than he a tear should shedBecause a wild flower drooped its head.
It would not grow�the heather flowerFar from its native land exiled,Though breezes from the forest bowerGreeted the lonely mountain child.It better loved the bleak wild windWhich blew upon the Highland hill,And for the rocky heath it pinedThough tended both with care and skill;An exile on a stranger strand,It languished for its native land.
0, if the heather had but grown,And bloomed upon a foreign scene,Its owner had not felt alone,Though a sad exile he had been.But when he marked its early death,He thought that, like his mountain flower..
Withered beneath a foreign breath,He soon might meet his final hour,And die a stranger and alone,Unwept, unpitied and unknown.�Anne Pratt, in "Flowers and Their Associations."
Oft have I marked thee, Heather, blooming free,
When care and culture came not, on the wild, And deemed thou
wert too beautiful to beLeft in the desert like a thing exiled;Then have I brought thee where the garden smiled
With many a blossom not more lovely graced;But thou wert Freedom's own�her darling child,
And when in trim enclosure fondly placedWouldst languish soon, and die, mourning thy
Pative waste.
So might of old some warrior captive pineAmid the seven-hilled city's splendour�erst
His home was by the Danube or the Rhine,Where Freedom's self his glowing spirit nursed.
Now the thick air, which, breathed by slaves is cursed,Stifles his free-born soul�as men beneathClose dungeon vaults for heaven's pure breezes
thirst,He suffocating
pants for freer breath
And welcome's Misery's friend, the slave's soul refuge, Death.Frazer's Magazine.
Flowers of the MoorlandWild flowers of the moorland, ye are very dear to
me;Ye lure my dreaming
memory as clover does the bee;Ye bring back all my childhood loved, when
freedom, joy and health
Had never thought of wearing chains to fetter fame and wealth.
Wild blossoms of the common land, brave tenants of
the earth,Your
breathings were among the first that helped my spirit's birth;For how my busy brain would dream and how my heart
would burn,Where gorse
and heather flung their arms above the forest fern.�Eliza Cook.
The Heather at My Door
If I were king of France, that noble fine land,And the gold was elbow deep within my chests,
And my castles lay in scores along the wine-landWith towers as high as where the eagle nests;If harpers sweet, and swordsmen stout and vauntingMy history sang, my stainless tartan wore,Was not my fortune poor, with one thing wanting�The heather at my door.
My galleys every ocean might be sailing,Robbing the isles and sacking hold and keep,
My chevaliers with loyalty unfailingMight bring me back of cattle, horse and sheep,
Soft arms be round my neck, the young heart's tether,And true love-kisses all the night might fill,
But oh! Machree, if I had not the heatherBefore me on the hill.
A hunter's fare is all I would be craving,A shepherd's plaiding and a beggar's pay, If I
might earn them where the heather, waving, Gave fragrance all the
day.The stars might see
me, homeless one and weary,Without a roof to fend me from the dew, And
still, content, I'd find a bedding cheery,Where'er the heather grew.�Neil Munro, in "Blackwood's Magazine," 1896.
To a Wild Heath Flower
Sweet flowered from Nature's indulgence thou'rt
cast, Thy home's on the cold heath, thy nurse is the blast, No
shrub spreads its branches to shelter thy form, Thou'rt shook by the
winds, and thou'rt bent by the storm;But the bird of the moor on thy substance is fed,
And thou giv'st to the hare of the mountain a bed; In youth,
from the cold winds thou'lt grant them a space,And in age, when the fowler's at war with their
race; The winds may assail thee, the tempest may rage, They
nature is proof to the war which they wage; Thou'lt smile in the
conflict, and blossoms unfold, Where the nurslings of favor would
shrink from the cold;
Though rugged and sterile the seat of thy birth, Simplicity formed
thee of beauty and worth. Remain, then, sweet blossom, the pride of
the moor, In loneliness flourish, unpamper'd and pure�Expand in
the tempest, and bloom on the brow, An emblem of sweet independence
art thou;And the soul
who beholds thee unhurt in the strife, Shall learn to contend with
the troubles of life; And when the cold wind of adversity's felt,And the shafts of affliction are ruthlessly dealt,
His spirit, unbroken, shall rise to the last,And his virtues shall open and bloom in the blast,
And his joys shall be sweet when the storm is at rest, And the
sunbeam of glory shall play on his breast.�John Jones.
On the Hills
I love the hills, the lonely hills.Where never a sound is heard,Save the soft, sad songs of the purling rills,Or the cry of a wandering bird;O!there; O! there;In the silence rare,Mv sonl with sweet music is stirred.
I love the hills, the heathery hills,Where the
wild Bowers sweetly blow, And smile at the sun while their fragrance
fills The breath of the breezes low;O!
there; 0! there;I
banish life's care,And
happiness only I know.
I love the hills! the sombre hills, In silvery
moonbeams drest,Where
the curlew calls in sorrowful trilts. From its lonely distant nest;
O! there; O! there;In the night-hushed air,I speak with the Spirit of Rest.�Win. Allan.
How oft, though grass and moss are seenTanned bright for want of showers. Still keeps
the ling its darksome green,Thick set with little flowers.�Moorland Blossoms.
Scotch Heather
Bright purple bloom of Scotland's hills, Garb
of her mountains, glens and rills, At sight of thee my bosom fillsWith memories proud,Of tartans, thistles, snuff, meal-mills, And
mist-wet cloud.
Thy stem is like some fir-tree greenWith twinkling bells hung thick between;
Pressed to the earth, thou low dost lean, But scorns to break,Up-springing quick as ne'er had been Foot on
thy neck.
Thou'rt like the man when Fortune's tread
Falls fell and crushing on his headWho bows, but when the blow has sped With
dauntless willHe
struggles up from sorrow's bed, A soldier still.
On storm-crest crags of dusky white Where
brackens wave their fans of light, And rowans drop their berries
brightThe clefts
between;Thy breast of
purple on the height So richly seen.
Home of the moor-cock, snipe, and deer, The
gaudy pheasant crowing clear,The partridge brown, that schemes her fear
With draggled wings;And
dappled grouse, when man draws near, That whirring springs.
Oft have I climbed the steep hill's side 'Mong
hairsts of heather, deep and wide, When sweet dust flew at every
spendthrift's money,And
yellow bees could scarce abide The smell of honey.
On thee has patriot Wallace trod,Who bled to break the tyrant's rod; And oft
the Covenanter's banner broad Has swept thy bloom,Proclaiming at the pike's sharp shod
Oppression's doom.
But why should thy small purple flower Be dyed
with blood in peaceful hour,On moors, where men who creep and cower.With guns resort,To pour on birds a leaden showerAnd call it sport?
When dogs and guns are laid to sleep, 'Neath
the cleft moon thy sweet bells weep To hear the plaintive dying peepFrom birds half killed,As, from soft breasts, sore wounded deep,
Their life's distilled.
No more the dusky legs will spring, No more
will spread the speckled wing; A bloody head does earthward hing,No more to live-'Tis sport to some who take the thing They
cannot give.
Badge of true manhood and the brave, Long may
thy purple glory wave
O'er moor and bill, when red guns rave, And death's abroad;To shield the weak thou canst not save, Bright
flower of God.�From
"Law Lyrics," by Robert Bird, 1887.
SolitudeOh! beautiful those wastes of heath,Stretching for miles to lure the bee, Where
the wild bird, on pinions strong, Wheels round and pours his piping
song,And timid
creatures wander free.
�Mary Howitt.
O sweet is the breath of the heatherOn braes of the Highlands that blows; O rich
is its bloom when at eveningThe hills glow in purple and rose.
I sit on the slopes of Loch Etive,The heather is up to my knee; I look to the
west where the islands
Arise from the far gloaming sea.
The peak of the mighty Ben Cruachan Above me
soars up in the mist; Below, by the waters of Etive,The feet of the proud one are kist.
I see the grey strength of Dunstafinage
Keeping wars on the way of the seas, And faintly the roaring of
ConnalIs heard in the
lull of the breeze.
Here, lapped in the stillness of Nature, Afar
from the dwellings of men, My spirit is rapt by the magicThat breathes over mountain and glen.
Around are the footprints of Fingal,And Ossian, the last of his race: Here Dermid
and Oscar and Fillan
Have wakened the storm of the chase.
O voices of heroes long vanished,Ye live, overcoming the tomb;While lingers the music of OssianRound hills where the heather doth bloom.
Where glances the light on the watersThat dash bewixt Mull and Lismore, The
long-ships of Hako went flashingThe raven to battle that bore.
O valiant offspring of Odin!The drop of your blood that's in me Still
fires at the thought of the prowess That made you the Kings of the
Beneath yonder slope good King Robert,When the brooch from his shoulder was torn,
Cut his way through the pass, while he reddenedWith the blood of the clansmen of Lorn.
O conquering sword of King Robert!How good to have followed with thee To strike
a strong blow for old Scotland,The day that she rose to be free.
The wind from the heights of Glen EtiveComes laden with voices of woe'Tis the dirge
that forever and everIs
borne from the depths of Glencoe.
O ghosts of the brave Clan MacIan IStill yours is that terrible glen,Once blithe with the voices of children,The gladness of women and men.
I think of the days of Prince Charlie,When the North spent its valor in vain, And
the blood of the brave and the loyalWas poured at Culloden like rain.
Now passed like the mist on the mountainsAre the days when such deeds could be done;
The clansmen are scattered forever,The race of the chieftains is run.
And gone are green-coated fairiesThat brightened the hillside of old, The
witches that rode on the tempestThe Gruagach* that haunted the fold.
And passed are the sights dread and solemnVouchsafed to the eye of the seer,The lights, and the sounds, and the phantoms,That filled every clachan with fear.
The life of the days that have fleeted Comes
back not with vision or spell;So rest ye, dim shadows of cloudland-Ye fairies, for ever farewell!
O thoughts of the past! ye bring sadness,And vain is the wish that once more The great
grassy glens that are silentWere homes of the braves as of yore.
Sleep, brave ones and bards that have perished,
And green be your places of restAnd light be the winds that go sighingO'er the children whom Nature loved best.
The soft dewy steps of the gloamingAre climbing the sides of the Ben,The last flush of light crowns with gloryThe Herdmant that watches the glen.
Here, wrapped in my plaid in the heather, I
envy no monarch his bed.Come, dreams of the hills and the Highlands,
And visit in slumber my head.�Sheriff Nicholson, in "Good Words."
Clover and Heather
There are greetings the wide world over,And blossoms wherever we roam, But none like
the heather and clover
To welcome the wanderer home.
Warm-hearted with kindred devotion,Twin sisters in sympathy true, They whisper
across the wide ocean,
Love-laden with memory's dew.
In purple tints woven togetherThe Hudson shakes hand with the Tweed,
Commingling with Abbotsford's heatherThe clover of Sunnyside's mead.
A token of friendship immortalWith Washington Irving returns�Scott's ivy
entwined o'er his portalBy the "Blue-eyed Lassie" of Bums.
Their names by heather-bells weddedWith fondness Columbia retains; In freedom's
foundation imbeddedThe
lay of the minstrel remains.
Ay, this their commission and glory, In
redolent bloom to prolong Love, liberty, legend, and story,That blossom in ballad and song.
So here's to the clover and heatherOf riverside, mountain and glen,As I stand wi' doffed bonnet and featherAt the yett of my forbears again.�Wallace Bruce, in "Clover and Heather."�Copyright
by the author.
o heart of mine, the heather's out, the miles of
purple heather,And all
the world's a-scent with it and dripping with the dewThere's just a little fragrant breeze as light as
thrush's feather,Come
out, my love, where harebells dance, the sunbeams wait for you.
O, heart of mine, the heather's dead, the miles of
purple heather,The blue
mist wreathes the mountain's side, the storm wind whistles free.Ah! was it only yesterday we roamed the hills
together?My heart is
dead as heather bells a-shiver on the lea.�Pall Mall Gazette.
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- Pepper, to taste
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Brush nectarines with butter and grill, cut side down, for 4-5 minutes or until grill marks appear.
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