Event Timetable

Welcome and Opening Address

Enterprise Transformation and the Role of Open Standards

Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group

 Enterprise transformation seems to be gathering momentum within the enterprise architecture community. The term, enterprise transformation, suggests the process of fundamentally changing an enterprise. Sometimes the transformation is dramatic but for most of us it is a steady process.

Key takeaways:

• Setting expectations and planning transformation
• The role of standards in enterprise transformation
• The work of the members of The Open Group.

Allen Brown is President and CEO, The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. For over 10 years Allen has been responsible for driving The Open Group’s strategic plan and day-to-day operations, including extending its reach into new global markets, such as China, the Middle East, South Africa and India. In addition, he was instrumental in the creation of the AEA, which was formed to increase job opportunities for all of its members and elevate their market value by advancing professional excellence.

Prior to joining The Open Group, Allen Brown held a range of senior financial and general management roles both within his own consulting firm, which he founded in 1987, and other multi-national organizations.

Allen is TOGAF® 9 certified, an MBA alumnus of the London Business School and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Leadership, Systems Thinking and Complexity Management: Charting the Future of EA

Dr. Pallab Saha, Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore

Governments are changing, by design, necessity and compulsion. This change is being exacerbated and shaped by megaforces that interact in a complex labyrinth of evolving nodes and connections. As a result, today's government leaders and policy makers operate in the realm of confounding uncertainties and astounding complexities. These lead to incomplete and often non-actionable information that make decisions increasingly speculative. To unlock the grid and move forward, it is being acknowledged that governments of the future have to be connected. Connected government is no utopia. It is simply a pragmatic approach to capitalize on complexity. Enterprise Architecture (EA) as a metadiscipline provides governments and leaders the means to address the twin challenges of dynamism and complexity. As governments become increasingly hyperconnected, they ought to be examined as systems, where holism, causality, heterarchy and interrelationships are crucial to ensuring overall coherence in a state of omnipresent flux. This contrasts with the traditional fixation on efficiency and cost. Going beyond the rhetoric, this session demonstrates the value of amalgamating the systems approach within EA methodology to address a national priority in Singapore, and provides insights to amplify the impact of EA by integrating creative thinking to tackle complex problems that enterprise transformation brings forth.

Intended audience: Chief Architects, Business Analysts;.Transformation Specialists; Consultants & Practitioners; CIOs, Chief Str Officers

Key takeaways:

1. Position management of organizational complexity as the primary raison d'être for enterprise architecture;
2. Highlight importance of blending systemic approach to enterprise architecture in tackling organizational complexity, and as an essential precursor to delivering business outcomes;
3. Disseminate current advancements in the area of enterprise architecture in
   the context of organizational complexity;
4. Provide organizations and business leaders with field tested and practical
   guidance in crafting their enterprise architectures aimed to tackle / manage
   complexity; and
5. Showcase a case study innovative adoption of enterprise architecture to
   achieve the goals of transformation.

Dr. Pallab Saha's current research, consulting and teaching interests include Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Governance. Dr. Saha has published four books: Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice; Advances in Government
Enterprise Architecture; Coherency Management­ -- Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility and Assurance; and Enterprise Architecture for Connected eGovernment­ Practices and Innovations. His books are widely referred making it to the top seller list in 2008 and 2009.

Identified as a Technology Thought Leader by Forrester, Dr. Saha is the primary author of the Methodology for AGency ENTerprise Architecture (MAGENTA) and Government EA Guidebook for the Government of Singapore and has led them to international prominence.

Earlier, as Head of Development, Dr. Saha managed Baxter's offshore centre in Bangalore. He has had engagements in Fortune 100 organizations in various capacities. Dr. Saha holds a Ph.D in Management (Information Systems) from theIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore and has received the best research design and best thesis awards. He is an alumnus of the MIT Sloan Executive Program.

Architect and Integrate Innovation Management into Mainstream Business

K Ananth Krishnan, VP and CTO, Tata Consultancy Services

K Ananth Krishnan will talk about measures TCS has taken in order to integrate innovation management with mainstream business.
These include:

• Having separate teams and metrics for invention and innovation
• Strong communication teams that can take research to the business units, and bring in feedback from customers on research-worthy problems
• Having special teams to scale innovation and work with business
• Incubating ideas that have great promise
• Building a culture of innovation in the entire organization
• Staying close to the customer

Ananth will also share the story of an innovation that is transforming TCS into a vivacious workplace.

K Ananth Krishnan is an M. Tech. in Computer Science and an M.Sc in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He also has a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Fergusson College, Pune. He joined TCS in February 1988, straight from campus.

Ananth is currently the Chief Technology Officer of TCS and chairs the TCS Corporate Technology Board. He is a member of the TCS Corporate Think-Tank since 1999, and has led several strategic initiatives. He has been a Principal Architect and Lead Consultant in the Architecture and Technology Consulting Practice, and earlier the head of the TCS Systems Management and the Systems Software Group.

He was named in Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2007, and in Infoworld’s Top 25 CTOs in the same year. He was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2009.

He was an invitee to the quarterly management review with the TCS Board (the executive committee of Tata Sons Limited) from April 2000 to March 2004. He has served on several Advisory Boards of software companies as well Industry and academic bodies and Government committees. He has served on the organizing committees of several national and international conferences.

He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and of the Computer Society of India as well as a member of the Association of Computing Machinery, and has served on the ACM India Council. He has been an invited faculty in the Department of Management Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Ananth is married, with two children and lives in Chennai. He has formally retired from a successful career in Trivia and Quizzing (which includes the 'Brain of IIT' individual title and two 'Cranium Cup' titles at IIT and several years on the IIT Quiz team), public speaking, crossword puzzle solving and cricket.

Compelling Reasons for Open and Collaborative IT

Sudin Apte, CEO and Managing Director, Offshore Insights Research & Solutions

Focus of IT organizations is shifting from underlying technology to business processes and business leaders are asking CIOs of organizations to transform and deliver industry leading business processes. But often the processes flow across various departments and functions that use diverse systems. Further, changes in business models, increasing penetration of technology in business delivery and rising adoption of emerging technologies like cloud and Mobility are making matters further complex. To deliver this requirement across functions and apps firms, and for assured connectivity across systems one needs standardization and better collaboration. The session will discuss:

• Why to deliver end to end business solutions, clients need to seamlessly stitch their legacy apps, ERP or Emerging Technologies?
• Why clients need more open systems to transform and modernize their heterogeneous applications?
• How open standards and certifications will help companies to achieve automation and increase efficiency and zero degree of delay?

The speaker will present latest client side data and examples to discuss above issues and how open standards forms one of the core pillar to achieve high performance collaborative IT.

Sudin Apte is a leading business and technology advisor. Sudin is a veteran industry analyst, and established thought leader. Over last 15 years he has been advising global corporations to build their IT strategy and helping them to extend IT’s value for their business benefits. He has founded his own research company Offshore Insights Research and Solutions, with its headquarters in Pune, India. This venture focuses on Business and Technology research and provides advice to top technology companies as well as Fortune 500 companies. One of his focus area is Outsourced/Offshore Product Development (OPD) and he is working with some of the top high-tech, software and manufacturing companies who are long term offshore clients (via partners or own facility) as well as few of focused OPD service providers. Recently he is working on OPD market trends (budget, post recession changes, adoption new/emerging technologies, trends related to hot themes like Cloud, Mobility, devices et al in high-tech or hybrid engines, telematics, infotainment et al in Auto/Tier 1, and so on), decision making about R&D/innovation partnering, and criteria for partner selection. Sudin regularly speaks at various prestigious national and international level conferences.

In the last two years he spoke at national level conferences arranged by Nasscom, CSI, Indo American Chamber of Commerce. In same period, he was interviewed and participated more than a twenty times in interviews and panels on CNBC, NDTV Profit, Times Now, and Bloomberg. His exclusive articles, interviews, and quotes appear on weekly basis in leading business press - Economic Times, Times of India, Business Standard, Business Today, Outlook, Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, Asian Age, and regularly in international publications like BusinessWeek, Economist, ComputingWorld, and Wall Street Journal. Sudin has also worked as visiting faculty at Judge Business School – Cambridge University and via Cambridge University’s Centre for India and Global Business, he recently conducted industry workshop in UK on Leveraging Global Innovation.

Prior to his current engagement, Sudin started Forrester’s operation in India and led it for nearly ten years. He has also worked as VP of business operations at another leading research company – Gartner - before Forrester.

Sudin Apte is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering, Post graduation in Management Science and has a qualification Cost & Works Accounting. Sudin has total 20 years of industry experience.

Importance of EA Management Practices from a Transformation Perspective

Nabarun Sengupta, Chief Architect, Cognizant

Enterprises today are faced with challenging and at the same time interesting times. On the one hand there are disruptive business models and technologies that have potential to transformation enterprises. On the other hand there are significant short term challenges – cost pressures, regulatory requirements and immediate business needs.
The discussion makes the proposition that an “enterprise architecture” view is an essential ingredient for any successful business transformation exercise. We define what we mean by an “enterprise view” from a transformation vantage point.
Furthermore we make the proposition that while enterprise architecture maturity is a necessary ingredient, a focus on enterprise architecture management practices is equally critical. We look at some key practices and the critical role they play in any transformation journey. The key take away from this session will be a summary of EA Management best practices as it applies to transformation.

Nabarun Sengupta has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, including Architecture, Project Management, Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Design, and Development application software in Middleware, Client-Server and Internet technologies. Nabarun has 10 years of Architecture and Project Management responsibilities, which include Estimation, Proposals, Architecture, Onsite and Offshore co-ordination and client interactions. Currently, Nabarun is Chief Architect and a member of the Banking and Financial Services CTO Office at Cognizant.

The Changing Face of Government: Trends and a Solution Architecture for Citizen Services

Sandipan Sarkar, Executive Enterprise Architect, IBM India

Governments across the world are facing unique, deeper and unprecedented challenges across the world. Interesting trends are observed in citizen service delivery as a response to these challenges. A solution architecture that may help the governments to address these trends is presented in this presentation.

Sandipan Sarkar is an IBM Executive Architect and The Open Group Distinguished Chief Architect. In his 17 years career in IT industry, he was responsible for consulting, presales, delivery and implementation of technology solutions in various domains including Financial Services, Healthcare, Hitech, and Telecommunications. As a technical leader, Sandipan led and executed the development of complex technical solutions; negotiations with customers and vendors; evangelization of innovative technologoies and solutions; and sizing and pricing of complex system integration projects. In his recent responsibilities, Sandipan led the capability development of Microsoft products that resulted in a multi-thousand strong team in IBM India. He is currently serving as the Architect Profession Leader of IBM's India & South Asia region.

In his day job, Sandipan is working as the Chief Architect of one of the major portfolios of IBM Global Government Center of Competence, providing Cloud and Smarter Government solutions to public agencies in growth and mature economies across the world. He spends his spare time in pursuing his research interests in the area of Literature, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, E-Governance and Social Media. Sandipan teaches and speaks regularly in internal and external forums. He is a national record holder in the area of social community development around the philosophies and works of Noble Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. He is an amateur bird photographer.

AEA - Building a Professional Body for Enterprise Architects

Steve Nunn, CEO, Association of Enterprise Architects

Steve Nunn’s role as CEO of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA), is focused on creating and developing the definitive professional association for enterprise architects around the globe. To achieve this, Steve is dedicated to advancing professional excellence amongst AEA’s 20,000+ members, whilst raising the status of the profession as a whole.

In addition to his role of CEO of the AEA, Steve is the VP and COO of The Open Group. Steve's primary responsibility for The Open Group is to ensure the legal protection of its assets, particularly its intellectual property. This involves the development, maintenance and policing of the trademark portfolio of The Open Group, including the registered trade marks behind the Open Brand and, therefore, the various Open Group certification programs, including TOGAF®, Open CA, Open CITS, and UNIX® system certification. The licensing, protection and promotion of TOGAF also falls within his remit.

Steve is a lawyer by training and has an L.L.B. (Hons) in Law with French and retains a current legal practising certificate.

Application Integration Architecture: Standardization & Role of EA (Insurance)

Hirok Choudhury, Enterprise Architect, Global Technology Officer, Cognizant Technology Solution

This presentation relates to a general insurance company in India.The IT landscape has many redundant and inappropriate components and the primary reason found was the exponential business growth. Applications such as policy admin, claims, agent management system, online portal were individually supporting the business functions as desired. However, wherever integration was required among the applications, problems started to creep in resulting in delayed and undesired quality of project delivery. This led the senior management of IL to initiate an assessment of integration architecture in order to get a future state and road map defined. Integration was difficult because of the existing spaghetti mess created due to uncontrolled use of DBLink. As part of the assessment, Cognizant conducted multiple face-to-face sessions with various application owners to understand the current integration landscape and associated constraints. Based on their inputs, a list of observation was derived and used to identify gaps between the current state and the future reference middleware architecture.  The consolidated gaps were plotted on a 3 year roadmap.

We observed that due to the absence of any IT governance and associated processes, individual teams are choosing integration mechanisms (like DBLink , web service, etc) as per their understanding and reasoning; causing chaos and future integration issues. We have recommended that the client should initiate an IT governance program. To give a jump start, we provided a set of artifacts focusing on integration architecture governance processes and integration architecture principles.  It has been concluded that to standardize and rationalize the use of middleware and beyond, an effective Enterprise Architecture (EA) team is needed to govern the optimized use of IT and other resources and, to drive strategic initiative and promote reuse.  Finally, we recommended a localized to enterprise wide adoption of standard middleware components (ESB, ETL and BPM) already available within the enterprise in order to leverage existing investment which are fit for purpose.

Intended audience: End Users, CIOs, CTOs

Key takeaways:

1. Understanding of best practices for integration standardization for diverse applications
2. Challenges in governance of policies for integration

Hirok Jyoti Dutta-Choudhury has over 12 years of professional experience in IT, predominantly (10+ years) in the insurance industry. For last 6 years Hirok has been working in IT architecture and consulting services. He has worked in various roles and capacities starting from Technical Analyst, Designer, Solution Architect, presales solution consultant and IT Consultant within the insurance vertical. Hirok has insurance domain certification from The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), UK. He is certified in Prince2 practitioner and in the IBM SOA foundation.

IBM's application of CITS & CA Certification programs for Client Success

Gautam Bhat, Lead Enterprise Architect, IBM India

Gautam K Bhat is an IBM Certified Senior IT Specialist (Thought Leader) with IBM and The Open Group Distinguished IT Specialist.  He has over 12 years of IT experience, and holds multiple roles such as Enterprise Architect and Global SME.

Getting EA Results Fast - A Retail Industry Case Study

Suresh Done, President, SNA Technologies Inc

Normally the perception on Enterprise Architecture is, it is long term and it takes long time to reap the benefits of EA.
In this presentation, Suresh will present a retail industry case study that shows how to get Enterprise Architecture results fast and gain the credibility of the business.

Intended audience: CxOs, Enterprise/Solution Architects, Program/Project Managers

Key takeaways:

1. how to identify key initiatives
2. how to implement EnterpriseArchitecture in a more agile manner

Suresh Done has more than 22 years of experience in IT and Engineering. Suresh is a TOGAF® 9 certified Enterprise Architect, consulting and training on Enterprise Architecture. He has worked in many industries including Automotive, Health, Telecom, Banking, Retail andGovernment sector. Since the inception of highly successful AEA Michigan Chapter, Suresh has been the Chairman and Co-Founder.

Information Rich Banking

Vish Viswanathan, Managing Principal, CC&C Solutions

As global banks are challenged by international  market turbulences in the aftermath of GFC, information as an asset is becoming critical. Information needs in a modern bank go beyond the traditional transactional information all the way to mission-critical information for survival and success. Increased compliance is demanding accurate and timely information to meet  statutory requirements.

Is Enterprise Information Architecture ready to meet these challenges? What is the relevance to Indian banking industry?

Vish Viswanathan is currently Managing Principal of CC&C Solutions, an organization in Asia/Pacific specializing in practical implementations of Enterprise Architecture based on a best-of-breed approach involving TOGAF® and other methodologies and tools. Recent assignments include Enterprise Architecture consultancy, specialized training and implementation assistance in the following sectors:

• University: Sydney and Monash Universities
• Government: Large Federal Government Departments such as Centrelink (Department of Social Security), Australian Taxation Office, Accident Compensation Corporation (New Zealand), Canberra local Government etc.
• Corporations: National Australia (Banking) TabCorp (Sydney Casino), Goodman Fielders (Food & Agriculture) etc.

Vish has had over 25 years of experience in IT & Telecommunications in technical, marketing and strategy positions as senior executive with IBM, Fujitsu and AAPT (Telecommunications) across Asia Pacific having been located in New Delhi, Bangalore, Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore. During his career, Vish has successfully managed several new technology startup initiatives in Australia, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore. He is actively spearheading The Open Group activities through championing TOGAF® in Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN regions as the Regional Partner as well as in his capacity as the Vice Chair- Asia Pacific for The Open Group Architecture Forum.

 

Creating an Enterprise Architecture Ecosystem for your Organization

Suresh Cherusseri, Chief Architect, Tata Consultancy Services

The relevance of Enterprise Architecture has increase manifold over the last few decades. In India the IT spending and the industry demand for the skills have seen a tremendous uptake over the last few years. The creation of an Architecture ecosystem to build capability and practice architecture principles is essential for every organization to meet the ever changing business needs and market demands. Leveraging available frameworks like TOGAF, Open CA certifications to build competency as well as leveraging professional organizations like AEA is essential for practitioners to provide right solutions meet the business demands. The session illustrates with an example creation of an Architecture ecosystem and career path leveraging The Open Group frame work to enable architect and deliver solutions better. The session will also discuss how the support system in India comprising of The Open Group, AEA,CSI have come together in India to support the Enterprise Architecture profession and practice over the last 3 years

Intended Audience: CIO,CTO, Business Leads, Practice Leads, Chief Architects, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects,Technical Architects,Program Leads

Key takeaways:

1. How to Create an Enterprise Architecture Ecosystem in your organization
2. How to effectively build competency on Architecture leveraging TOGAF, Open CA certifications
3. Where and How to reach out to The Open Group,AEA Chapters in India if you want to get help in setting up EA Practice or Competency

Suresh Cherusseri is the Chief Architect and Head of Solution Engineering Group at TCS. SEG as a group is a core engineering group that builds domain based products. He is himself a Distinguished IT Architect certified by The Open Group. He has more than 24 years of industry, research and innovation experience. In his current role as Head-SEG, Suresh has been single mindedly focusing on engineering world class products that are highly architecture centric and performance driven. He has a number of patents to his credit in this area. In his previous roles, Suresh has worked extensively in architecting complex business solutions and large transformation solutions. Suresh is very active in Open Group arena, is always looking to contribute to a best practice and absorb the best practices into the engineering group.

Interactive Architecture – Increasing Value from Architecture Artifacts

Atul Singh, Enterprise Business Architect, Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble

Accessibility and usability were limiting the power of the information stored in P&G's Enterprise Architecture space.With a simple interface, graphically organized by the key business processes, combining all relevant information on a single click, and allowing user to drill all the way from processes to responsibilities and applications, people from across the enterprise had easy access to the library of architecture artifacts enabling increased visibility and reuse. With the increased availability, the value of the artifacts and in turn the value of architecture overall increased dramatically.

Hence the interactive Business Architecture Framework (iBAF) was born.

The iBAF has become the standard language that the organization uses to describe their work processes and the scope of their projects. Riding on the success wave, similar tools for other EA domains were developed such as the EASE (Enterprise Architecture Search Engine) and interactive Data Dictionary. These tools have become the standard for how Architecture artifacts and EA data is consumed interactively today in P&G.

Opening Address: The Open Group Focus in India

Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group

An Architecture for IT Literacy through Open Source Software and Spoken Tutorials

Dr. Kannan M Moudgalya, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai

Bridging digital divide through Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and helping migration to Scilab from Matlab
http://spoken-tutorial.org/CSI.pdf
http://spoken-tutorial.org/What-is-a-Spoken-Tutorial-2-Minute-Video-English
http://spoken-tutorial.org/What_is_a_Spoken_Tutorial_English
http://scilab.in/Textbook_Companion_Project
http://scilab.in/Lab_Migration_Project

A spoken tutorial (http://spoken-tutorial.org) is a ten minute screencast of a computer session with a running commentary. By careful creation and use, it is effectively deployed for self learning and in volunteer organised SELF workshops. By dubbing only the audio, people who are weak in English can be made IT literate, while retaining the employment potential. Through the funding from National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, spoken tutorials and the SELF workshops are available free of cost to everyone. In the last one year, we trained 100,000 students. Through colleges, schools, cyber cafes and Aakash, we can empower everyone.

Dr. Kannan M. Moudgalya is a professor of Chemical Engineering, Systems and Control, and Education Technology at IIT Bombay. He has been with IIT Bombay for 25 years. He was a visiting professor at the University of Alberta. He received chemical and electrical engineering degrees from IIT Madras and Rice University.

Prof. Moudgalya has written two textbooks: (1) Digital Control, published by John Wiley & Sons, Chichester and (2) Optimization: theory and practice, jointly with Prof. M. C. Joshi, published by Narosa, New Delhi. He has published a large number of papers in refereed international journals and conferences in the areas of mathematical modelling, control and simulation.

Prof. Kannan is now devoting his time on spreading education on a massive scale, without quality dilution. He has been focusing on spoken tutorials, open source software systems, virtual labs and the low cost tablet, Aakash. He has held the posts of Associate Dean (R&D), Head of Oce Automation and Head of the Centre for Distance Engineering Education Programme, at IIT Bombay. He is a Member of the Standing Committee of the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.

Certification and Professionalism - The Open Group Perspective

James de Raeve, General Manager India and VP Certification, The Open Group

The Open Group's TOGAF® and ArchiMate® knowledge based certification programs, their current status and uptake.

• Knowledgebased programs under development
• The difference between knowledge and professionalism
• The Open Group's professional certification programs, Open CA and Open CITS
• The role of a professional body

James de Raeve is the Vice President, Certification, overseeing all certification and testing programs of The Open Group, including the popular TOGAF certification and the new IT Architect Certification Program. Since joining the company in 1989, James has been closely involved with all of the certification and testing activities of The Open Group and its predecessor X/Open, as well as the programs developed for other consortia. Before joining The Open Group, James worked in business development and technical roles in protocol testing and telecommunications. He holds an MSc in Digital Systems and a BSc in Physics.

Application Architecture Evolution for Social Banking

Dr. Radha Krishna Pisipati, Principal Research Scientist, Infosys

The rise of digital inclusion and abundance of social network and media have made tremendous impact on today’s banking. By analyzing the customers’ conversations, timely feedback and opinions, a large number of social and business insights can be derived for customer relationship management (Social CRM). On the other hand, application requirements evolve over a period of time due to complexities involved in adoption of new business processes and advanced technologies such as Big Data and Social Networking. These trends have significant implications on application architectures, thereby necessitating additional capabilities in terms of modeling, supporting evolving requirements and discovering actionable insights. This talk aims at recent studies on architectures that support evolving applications with a focus towards Social Banking Technology.

Dr. P Radha Krishna has been in the profession of research, development and technology adoption for about two decades. He is currently working as a Principal Research Scientist at Infosys Labs, Infosys Limited, Hyderabad, where he is associated with innovation and research projects leading to futuristic information management and analytical solutions.

Dr. Krishna conceptualized numerous research projects in the areas of CRM, social network analytics, soft data analysis, predictive analytics and in-cloud analytics, and associated in building innovation labs for leading industries. He also delivered tutorials along with Prof. Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT-Hyderabad and Prof. Krishnamurthy Vidasankar, St-John’s University, Canada, at international conferences ER 2007, ICWS 2007, WWW 2008, CAiSE 2010 and IEEE Services 2010.

Prior to joining Infosys, Dr. Krishna served as a faculty at the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT - a research arm of the Reserve Bank of India & an associate Institute of University of Hyderabad, and as a scientist at National Informatics Centre (Govt. of India), Bhopal.

Krishna has double PhDs – one from Osmania University and another from IIIT Hyderabad. His research interests include databases, data mining, data warehousing and electronic contracts and services.

Financial Inclusion Driven by Inter-operable Cloud Architecture

Satya Mishra, CEO, cEdge India

The objective of Financial Inclusion (FI) is to extend financial services to the large hitherto un-served population of the country to unlock its growth potential. In addition, it strives towards a more inclusive growth by making financing available to the poor in particular.

Recognizing that technology has the potential to address the issues of outreach and credit delivery in rural and remote areas in a viable manner, banks have been advised to make effective use of information and communications technology (ICT), to provide doorstep banking services through the Business Correspondent (BC) model where financial transactions can be carried out by illiterate customers assisted by a BC and using biometrics as an additional authenticator, thus ensuring the security of transactions and enhancing confidence in the banking system.

TCS has been working with leading commercial banks in the implementing the technology backbone for FI. TCS solution is based on open architecture which can offer multiple financial services, across channels (mobile, PoS, kiosk, etc.) to banks and the partner agencies. In addition a part of the solution is available from a cloud infrastructure providing unique benefits of cost and time to implement. For its ability to scale, robustness and inter-operablity, TCS FI solution has been reconginzed as the leader in this segment.

Satya Mishra has 20 years of industry experience having joined TCS in 1993. In TCS, he holds the role of Head of Business Solutions, India. In his current role, he is focusing on bringing new business solutions and services to Indian companies in different industries leveraging on technologies such as cloud and mobility. Prior to his current role, Satya was the CEO of C Edge Technologies, a joint venture between TCS and SBI, which provides core banking solution on a cloud to small and medium sized banks in India. In his different roles Satya has been instrumental in establishing new operating models for Indian companies using technology as key enabler, thereby positioning TCS as a strategic partner.

Business Transformation and Enterprise Architecture

Jason Uppal, Chief Architect, QRS

To remain competitive in today’s economy, organizations need two broad capabilities:

1. the ability to run the business effectively and efficiently and,
2. to continuously realign enterprise capabilities as the business landscape changes.

Most organizations have the right structure and resources to support the first capability but many often lack the fundamental building blocks to deliver change. This is evidenced by the number of ICT or transformation centric investments that fail to deliver expected returns. How can you be certain that your organization has the capability to identify opportunities and pounce on them quickly?

This presentation will outline:

• The scope of Business Transformation as an Enterprise Capability
• TOGAF®, the Enterprise Architecture standard used by the world’s leading organizations to improve business efficiency and facilitate enterprise transformation
• Business Transformation Capability Performance Measures
• Steps to assess your: people, process and technology gaps
• An Action Plan on how to materialize this practice without gutting the current operations of the organization
• our experience of “gotchas” to avoid

Jason Uppal, P.Eng. was the first Master IT Architect certified by The Open Group, by direct review, in October 2005. At that point, Jason had been chief architect of QR Systems Inc (www.quickresponse.ca) for six years and had been providing senior Enterprise Architecture services. He holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering, graduate degree in Economics and a post graduate diploma in Computer Science.

Jason’s commitment to Enterprise Architecture Life Cycle (EALC) has led him to focus on training (TOGAF), education (UOIT) and mentoring services to his clients as well as being the responsible individual for both Architecture and Portfolio & Project Management for a number of major projects.

Jason has found that education is only beneficial to those companies who can industrialize the EALC process – staff must be able to implement what they have learned. To that end, he lead a team of java software developers to develop an end to end industrialization product which encapsulates Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio and Project Management, Project Management and IT Services Management processes. Implementing this software product, ITO, (www.itoProcesses.com.) permits companies to take full advantage of TOGAF and any other custom processes which might already be in place within their organization.

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Practical Case Study - Architecting eLearning Solution on Cloud

Bala Prasad Peddigari, HiTech Innovative Solutions Lead, Tata Consultancy Services

Learning is a continuous process and there are various mediums and channels to expand knowledge breadth and depth. Keeping the wide spectrum of channels - it is important to construct a platform to interconnect this sources to drive through an holistic solution where eLearning can be made possible to deliver learning over cloud for Students across the universities. This practical case study explores the procedural way of architecting the overall SaaS based eLearning solution on cloud describing

1. Data Architecture Considerations
2. Deployment Architecture Considerations
3. Non-Functional Architecture Considerations - Performance, Security, Availability and Extensibility
4. Search Architecture

Bala Prasad Peddigari (Bala) is an Enterprise Architect and Business Value Consultant with Tata Consultancy Services Limited. Bala specializes in Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategies, Business Value consulting, Cloud based technology solutions and Scalable architectures. Bala has been instrumental in delivering IT Solutions for Finance, Insurance, Telecom and HiTech verticals. Bala currently heads the HiTech Innovative Solutions Technology Excellence Group with a focus on Cloud, Microsoft, Social Computing, Java and Open source technologies. He received accolades in Microsoft Tech Ed for his cloud architectural strengths and Won the Microsoft ALM Challenge. Bala published his papers in IEEE and regular speaker in Open Group conference and Microsoft events. Bala serves on the Open CA Certification board for The Open Group.

Certifications: Open Group Master Certified IT Architect, TOGAF Certified, MCTS - Windows Communication Foundation, SharePoint, Microsoft Delivering Business Value Planning Services

IT Organization Models - Preparing for Disruptive Technologies

Prasanna Anantharamaiah, Business Value Consultant, Hewlett Packard India

The benefits from disruptive technologies are hard to ignore. It excites both the Business team and also the IT team. These technologies bring change across one or more of People, Process, Technology, Partners and on Information. Secondly, the speed at which some of these technologies are being adopted by large organizations. A successful IT transformation to embrace these new technologies can only happen by understanding and managing the impact on the organization. This session discusses the impact of Cloud, Mobility and Big-Data have on the organization and explores how IT organizational models are being evolved to accept, adopt and maximize benefits from these disruptive technologies.

Prasanna Anantharamaiah is a Business Value consultant and IT Strategist with Hewlett Packard. He specializes in IT Strategy and Architecture, Business and Operational Process consulting, IT Service Management and Management of Organizational Change. Prasanna has worked extensively on IT solutions for large telecom service providers, enterprises in FSI vertical and Data center automation solutions. His research interests include IT organizational model for hybrid cloud environment and Next generation networks. Prasanna serves on the OpenCA certification board for The Open Group. He has five patents to his credit.

EA is Critical to Large Transformation Programs

Suyog Shah, Lead Enterprise Architect, Deloitte & Touche Consulting India

 Business transformation is increasingly a key driver for many organizations in today's competitive environment where the focus is either on cost reduction by means of improving operational efficiency or on increasing the market share through innovation and other means of growth. Information Technology (IT) is looked upon as one of the key enablers for business innovation and competitive differentiation. As a result, many organizations identify a number of IT initiatives that enable business transformation and alignment of IT to business objectives and drivers. Such initiatives are often undertaken as part of large, multi-year business
transformation programs that are aimed at changing and optimizing business processes and enhancing the IT capabilities that enable them. The initial effort and excitement of such changes often propel many transformational projects directly into an execution phase where focus is often on delivery without appropriate investments in program planning and further in planning
and definition of the enterprise architecture. Such an approach often results in lack of appropriate guidance for the implementation projects and leads to large pitfalls. Organizations become unclear of what to deliver and how to deliver the change that can provide value to business and provide a return on the investment. Eventually this lack of planning leads to a failure to achieve the transformational objectives.

This presentation highlights the need for enterprise architecture definition in large transformation programs, key considerations for defining the enterprise architecture, key challenges involved, and concludes with the benefits enterprise architecture brings to various stakeholders involved in transformation programs

Intended audience:

CxO level executives, Business & IT leaders involved in transformation, Enterprise Architects, Program and Change Managers.

Key takeaways:

Investing in enterprise architecture as part of a large transformation program helps address challenges faced during the transformation, and ensures alignment of implementation projects to the overall business and IT strategy of the organization. Enterprise architecture acts as a bridge between strategy and implementation by providing the necessary principles and
standards, foundation in terms of current state, target state, and transition views, and guidance through governance control mechanisms.Enterprise architecture initiatives need to ensure continuous engagement of IT with business and effective communication across various stakeholders involved in the transformation program. It is important to produce architecture views in line with stakeholder expectations that can guide the transformation and enable timely and effective decision-making. Enterprise architecture frameworks and tools that enable creation of standardized views in a structured and timely manner may be adopted. Although enterprise architecture as a practice has been recognized for more than two decades now and despite its numerous known benefits, it is still often an ignored element in a transformation program until the needs are felt. The aim of this presentation is to re-emphasize the needs of enterprise architecture for large transformations.

Suyog Shah has extensive experience in managing and delivering technology advisory related consulting engagements for industry leading corporations across the globe. Suyog has lead and delivered multiple management consulting engagements on technology strategy, enterprise architecture and IT enabled business transformation.

Moving Businesses into the Cloud -- A Look at Application Migration to Cloud Computing

Joydipto Banerjee, Technical Solution Architect, IBM and Open Group Master Certified IT Specialist

Cloud Computing is the industry buzz and its benefits well established. However, have we thought of how to migrate an organization’s workloads to cloud, without renovating or re-engineering applications? Should we discard all these existing assets and build new applications or should again spawn a transformation project spending considerably in this tight economic condition?

In this session, Joydipto will explore the methodology of cloud migrations along with appropriate products and architectural thoughts, building on actual engagement experiences. The focus is on cross-industry workload migrations. The presentation aims to illustrate how to move workloads like databases, custom code, web, etc. from traditional to Cloud environment. The migration methodology is tailored more towards the technical aspects of the workloads rather than being industry specific in nature.

The challenges and issues that usually act as a barrier for CIOs trying to pursue this goal are also discussed.

An effort is also made to see how the cloud migration framework maps to The Open Group Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (CCRA) draft standard.  Finally, a set of cloud migration patterns are included as a common framework for aligning the various migration approaches developed in support of using cloud as a delivery paradigm.

Intended audience: IT Architects, IT Specialists, Solution Managers, Executives

Key takeaways:

1. Various architectural thoughts and decision making process on how to move existing application into cloud computing arena.
2. A solution approach of moving the non-cloud application into cloud without renovating the application or spending considerably in application transformation.
3. Products and tools that aid in the above process.

Joydipto Banerjee is a Technical Solution Architect for IBM Migration Factory and likes to read and work with new technologies. Joydipto is an IBM Certified Consulting IT Specialist (Master Certified IT Specialist from The Open Group) and has written number of technical articles, mostly on cloud computing. He is an IBM Cloud Computing Ambassador and participates in IBM University Relation programs for various schools and colleges. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India.

Integration of Information Technology and Operational Technology

Dr Sundeep Oberoi, Head of Niche Technologies, TCS

While traditionally OT has been specialized hardware and software (Process control, SCADA, Industrial Automation etc.), there is a rapidly evolving trend of replacing this specialized hardware by commodity computing platforms (like those typically used in IT), and vastly more complex software. Moreover proprietary communication protocols are increasingly being replaced by the same standardized protocols used for communication in standard IT systems and indeed the Internet. This large-scale deployment of Operational Technology, communicating over the Internet has often been referred to as “The Internet of Things”.
There is great benefit in integration Operations Technologies into the Enterprise IT systems of an organization, and in fact across organizations and their supply chains. Several important practical use cases exist such as Enhanced Supply Chain Visibility, Smartgrids and Real Time Situational Awareness. The practicality of these use cases required the capability to process very large amounts of data – i.e. Big Data, and also ensuring that the data is secure.

Dr. Sundeep Oberoi has more than 26 years of industry, research and entrepreneual experience in diverse areas of Information and Communication Technology. He has a wide spectrum of experience in Delivery Management of large and critical programmes, technology development, product development, business development, system integration and management of research laboratories. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from I.I.T Bombay, an M.Tech in Computer Science from I.I.T. Delhi and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from I.I.T. Kanpur.

Dr. Oberoi heads the Niche Technology Delivery Group which is a part of the Technology Excellence Group in TCS. The role of the group is to provide delivery in specialized technology like security, RFID sensors and NFC, Web 2.0 technologies, User experience, Collaboration and Unified Communication, Cloud Computing and Next Generation Networks. The group also runs operations of TCS Certifying Authority which is the largest licensed Certifying Authority in India. The group is responsible for supporting and evolving some of TCS flagship enterprise solutions (Dhruvam®, FormSigner®, Fortiora™, SSF) in the security area, which are widely deployed in Banking, Finance, Insurance, Government and Telecom sectors.

Prior to this Dr. Oberoi has been in a variety of roles including heading the security consulting practice within the TCS Global Consulting Group, heading the Systems Integration and Security Group and heading the language processing group in another Tata group company.

Dr. Oberoi is the author of two books and several conference and journal publications, and holds the CISSP credential.

Business Architecture and Operating Models - Key to Business Transformation in the Digital Age

Ameya Vanjari, Global Head of Delivery - Architecture Consulting in TCS

Today, Business Architecture is a practice in nascent stages. There are multiple interpretations of Business Architecture. I will share my views on the topic along with introducing concept of business operating models which were introduced by MIT CISR - Jeanne Ross and Peter Weil.
I've experienced that applying both the concepts in a given context, helps plan and guide transformations. This is increasingly important in this digital age.  I'll support these claims with examples and learning's from applying the same.

Ameya Vanjari is a practicing Enterprise Architect and Global Head of Delivery - Architecture Consulting in TCS. In this role, Ameya is responsible for delivery of consulting engagements, providing sales support for opportunities, demonstrating thought leadership and maturity of the practice.  As an architect, Ameya advised global businesses on IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture and IT Roadmaps. Ameya has keen interest in retail, financial services industry and business innovation driven by IT. Has global exposure by virtue of traveling and working with customers in over 15 countries.

Ameya is an Engineering Graduate from Mumbai University and has done General Management program from Lee Iacocca Institute, Lehigh University, PA, US. Lectured at faculty development progra. He has delivered multiple talks and lectures in management and engineering schools in India.

Policy Based SOA Governance in EA Transformation

Anirban Chakrabarti, Senior Architect, Cognizant Technology Solutions

Architecture governance is an important aspect in Enterprise  Architecture transformation. A large number of organizations are moving from  application oriented architecture to service oriented architecture. Many organizations are going to expose their services as API in near future. In  this context, governance of services are very important for both design-time  and run-time service enabled environments to comply with various strategies  adopted by organizations. A suite of policies and processes are developed in  platform independent manner to govern a service oriented environment, and its  transformation to a complaint environment. Case studies will be presented for  successful implementation in Banking and Media publishing industry vertical.

 Intended audience: Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects

Anirban Chakrabarti is an Enterprise Architect working in rchitecture transformation programs for various CTS customers. For the past 5 years, Anirban has been working on architecture governance.  He has created a service offering for design-time and run-time policy based SOA governance, unique in the industry.

National Skill Development – An Enterprise Architecture Perspective

Harish Iyer, Lead Architect, Special Initiatives, TCS

Skill development is a key imperative for India to successfully leverage and capitalize on the demographic dividend that it will enjoy in the next few years. But vocational skill development is at a stage of infancy and fraught with challenges and issues. The government has set up a council to develop a strategy at the national level and develop an action plan for skill development to maximize job generation within the country and create human resources for global needs.
This presentation looks at this initiative from an enterprise architecture perspective and gives a mapping of various elements conceptualized for this initiative to the TOGAF® Content Meta Model. It depicts the various architecture views for this initiative in terms of the business architecture, application architecture and technology architecture as well as describing some architecture principles and KPIs.

Intended Audience: Chief Architects, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Technical Architects, Program Leads,

Harish Iyer has an overall experience of about 18 years in the IT industry and has played a diverse set of roles in this duration. Harish, while currently managing a customer relationship for a large financial services organization, is also working with the Office of the Advisor to the Prime Minister on Skill Development. In this role, he is primarily looking at leveraging IT to enable the vocational education and employment in the country.

Prior to this, Harish was heading the Solution Engineering Group at TCS and was instrumental in setting up this group for developing business solutions within TCS. Harish has been certified as a Distinguished Chief IT Architect by The Open Group and is also a certified TOGAF® architect. Harish has played key architecting roles across various large enterprise engagements across multiple industry domains and has been instrumental in creating key reusable frameworks in the java and integration space.

Harish Iyer is well regarded as a mentor in the architecture and technology space within the organization. His key aspiration is to bring a manufacturing rigour and automation to the area of software development.