The Information Architect’s primary job is to inventory, classify and organize content into a coherent structure, preferably one that most people can understand quickly, if not intuitively. Becoming a good Information Architect takes many years of study and practice
Microsoft has architected and literally built these data centers from the ground up to protect services and data from not only natural disaster but physical intrusion or physical attack and unauthorized access as well
The SharePoint Team consists of the SharePoint Team Manager, SharePoint System Architect, SharePoint Application Architect, SharePoint Farm Administrators, and Site Collection Managers
These people have titles like Information Architect, Records Manager, Information Manager, etc
For a glimpse into what this could mean operationally for SharePoint I interviewed Meint Post , Infrastructure Architect of Dutch-based Rabobank
This is sometimes due to the SharePoint roadmap that was never developed, the experience level of the consultants, possibly the "1099 subcontracted for this job consultants" this original firm hired when signing up for a Dice.com account shortly after winning the project to hire a few "Senior SharePoint Consultants" that did not live up to the SharePoint Senior Architects \ Consultants for which they were “billed” at and pitched during the sales and project scoping process
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Content architects seek this safe harbor between the comfort zone of known entities and a state of metadata impairment known as PEAD ("permanent enterprise attention deficit")
Architects and Developers get trained and become the ones who drive the SharePoint implementation, whereas a successful SharePoint initiative should be driven by the business needs of the organization
In addition, we have tools like the Lightning Conductor Web Parts , HarePoint Workflow Extensions , Muhimbi PDF Converter , MetaVis Architect Suite and Harmon.ie In short, we can do things today that we couldn’t dream of doing 5 years ago, and that makes it easier to sell SharePoint as a solution today
Hosted platforms move the back-end cost out of your organization, but you will still require some expertise in architecting and managing your environment, making sure you're getting the most value out of the platform for your team