Service-Oriented Architecture

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.

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.

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’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 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 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 has 13 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’.

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

Dr. Mallick has several publications in international journals and conferences to his credit on service oriented computing, software engineering and enterprise architecture. He is also the author of a book on Enterprise IT Architecture.