IT Architecture Practitioners Conference  Europe 2006, Barcelona, Spain The Open Group
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  Srikanth Narasimhan, Technical Staff, Enterprise Architecture, Cisco Systems    
Srikanth NarasimhanSrikanth Narasimhan is responsible for enabling architecture alignment in the Enterprise Architecture organization of Cisco Systems, driving the target state IT architecture, frameworks and Principles. He has more than 19 years of experience in telecom, banking, financial services and high tech industries architecting and implementing enterprise solutions.

Prior to joining Cisco Systems, Srikanth was Vice President of Engineering for eCredit, a Massachusetts based developer of Corporate Credit and Collections applications. At eCredit, Srikanth drove the product development from the inception and implemented enterprise Credit and Collections solutions at several fortune 100 companies. Prior to that, Srikanth served as a business systems consultant for Arthur Andersen. Prior to Arthur Andersen, Srikanth spent five years in the telecom industry architecting several large integrated voice/data systems.

Srikanth holds a B.E. in Computer Science from Regional Engineering College, Trichy, India and is TOGAF-8 Certified.

 

   
 

Presentation
Evolving Successful Architectures through Building Blocks and EA Patterns
Building Blocks and EA Patterns are the yin and yang of a ‘successful’ architecture. The presentation will discuss the key aspects of defining the building blocks and EA patterns from a practitioner’s perspective.

Building Blocks:

  • Why is the building blocks approach so important for enterprise architecture?
  • How do we approach defining and evolving building blocks of enterprise architecture, from a practitioner’s standpoint?

EA Patterns:

  • What are Architecture and Design Patterns?
  • Examples of Business Architecture Pattern
  • How do we use the Patterns in Architecture Views?

The presentation will conclude with a brief on how to measure the value of building blocks and EA patterns towards a ‘successful architecture’.

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