Using Enterprise Architecture to achieve competitive advantage through IT. Are you successful?

Ajit Sagar

Principal Architect, Infosys Limited

Ajit has more than 17 years experience in the IT industry. His focus areas are IT strategy, SOA, and Enterprise Architecture, primarily in the financial industry. He was the editor of several Sys-Con Media's journals - the founding editor of XML Journal, the enterprise editor of Java Developer's Journal and SOA Journal.


Brahma Acharya

Senior Technology Architect, SOA Consulting, Infosys Limited

Brahma has 13 years of experience in the IT industry and specializes in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture. He has been working on SOA since its inception.

Brahma will blog on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture (EA).


Christian Schacht

Principal Technology Architect, System Integration, Infosys Limited

Christian has more than 15 years of experience in the Enterprise Information Management. He has experience guiding many Enterprise Content Management and Enterprise Architecture projects for blue chip organizations in Europe and Latin America. He has worked with market leaders. He has been instructor and presenter for software architecture and software engineering methodologies for several years.


Dhiren Mehta

Principal Architect, Infosys Limited

Dhiren has more than 17 years of experience as an Enterprise Architect, Technical Strategist, and Solution Designer. His areas of interest include BPM, SOA, J2EE and products from vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, SUN, BEA and TIBCO. He is a SUN-certified Enterprise Architect and IBM- certified SOA solution designer.


G Lakshmanan

IT Architecture - Educator & Mentor, Education and Research, Infosys Limited

Lakshmanan has more than 20 years of IT experience. He nurtures a vibrant community of IT architects focused on industry solution architectures across various business domains.

Lakshmanan has performed several leadership roles. He was the Head of Infosys Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) architecture practice, Head of Engineering, SaaS practice and Head of UK - Retail and CPG delivery.


Jagdish Bhandarkar

Principal, Education and Research, Infosys Limited

Jagdish is a member of Infosys Architecture Competency Board and a Certified Enterprise Architect. He enjoys mentoring, brainstorming and strategic collaboration.

His key areas of interest are Enterprise Architecture, Agile Methodology and Business Clouds.


Dr. Jai Ganesh

Principal Researcher, Web 2.0 Center of Excellence, SETLabs, Infosys Limited

Jai’s research focuses on SOA, Web Services, IT strategy, IT standards and adaptive enterprises. His research has been published in journals such as the Information & Management, Journal of Global Information Management, the International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management and in conferences such as AMCIS and ICWS.


Naveen N. Kulkarni

Technical Architect, SOA Center of Excellence at SETLabs, Infosys Limited

Naveen’s interests are Service-oriented Architecture, Web Services, and specific research in the areas of enterprise adoption of services, service architectures and evolution of services in services ecology. His research has been published in leading conferences such as ICWS, ICSOC, and SCC.


Rakesh Mishra

Senior Principal Consultant, Head of the BPM-EAI Consulting, Infosys Limited

Rakesh specializes in business integration strategies, SOA adoption programs and Enterprise IT shared service centers. He has helped various Fortune 500 corporations make right technology and architecture decisions, set up enterprise-wide integration strategies that deliver business value from integration while aligning it to SOA. He has also led large shared services portfolios and transformed them through continuous learning and improvement innovations.


Shreyas J. Kamat

Principal Architect, Head - SOA Practice, Infosys Limited

Shreyas has 18 years of experience in the IT industry. He has worked in the areas of IT strategy development, enterprise architecture and SOA. He has led many large IT transformational implementations across industries. He is a TOGAF-certified architect and certified technology officer.


Shubhankar Sumar

Principal Architect, SOA Consulting - EMEA, Infosys Limited

Shubhankar has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry and specializes in Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Architecture and distributed computing. He has executed several large IT transformational implementations across industries. In addition, he has been involved in the development of an industry-leading application server. Shubhankar has a patent for inventing ‘System and Method for Scenario Generation in a Distributed System’.

Shubankar will blog on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture (EA).


Sohel Aziz

Assistant Vice President, Infosys Limited

Sohel has extensive experience in business-technology alignment, technology strategy guidance, technology business case development, and technology program management and analysis. He has developed and executed technology-enabled business transformation strategies using offshore delivery models. Sohel's focus areas are Enterprise Architecture and effective governance models for business-IT alignment. He is working on formalizing the impact of Web 2.0 technologies on the way we think about Enterprise Architecture.

Sohrab Kakalia

Vice President, Infosys Limited

Sohrab has 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He has helped several leading corporations transform, design and integrate their software systems to achieve efficient and competitive operations. Sohrab has led several large, end-to-end multi-technology projects covering hardware, OS, application software, network and security.


Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni

Principal Researcher & Head, Software Engineering Lab - SETLabs, Infosys Limited

Dr. Padmanabhuni's interests include Web Services, Service-oriented Architecture and grid technologies, alongside pursuing interests in intelligent agents and enterprise architecture.