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TATA
Consultancy Services Limited (India)
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 Biography
 Mr. Rajeev Arora is working for TATA Consultancy Services
Limited (TCS), world-leading information technology
consulting, services, and business process outsourcing
organization. Rajeev is certified TOGAF Architect and
active member of architecture community of TCS. He
authored white paper “High Availability Strategies
of an Enterprise” published on www.tcs.com
Rajeev worked for clients in UK such as National
Car Rental, General Electrical and currently working
as an Enterprise Architect for “Vertex” the IT
arm of “United Utilities”. The current focus
of his work is to review existing IT ecosystem, customer
IT strategic goals, evaluate enterprise tools and technologies
and establish framework for enterprise architecture.
Mr. Rajeev has successfully devised strategies for IT
infrastructure best utilisation.
Rajeev holds Master in Computer Application and joined
TCS in the year 1996 after completing his degree.
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Presentation
Enterprise Architecture Journey
of United Utilities
An organisation adopts organic and inorganic growth strategies
to grow its business fast. Inorganic growth, or external
growth, occurs when the company grows by merger or acquisition
of another business. Utility companies aiming to be the multi-utility
organisation adopt inorganic growth strategy. However, merger
and acquisitions brings new challenges in business and IT
ecosystem. IT strategy need to be redefined and aligned with
new business strategy and IT environment inherited needs
to be consolidated and optimised due to merger and acquisitions.
United Utilities Plc, the leading multi-utility company
of UK was formed with the merger of North West Water and
Norweb Energy. This presentation discuss about IT challenges
faced by United Utilities in past due to merger, enterprise
architecture approach adopted to address those challenge,
success stories, lessons learnt, maturity of enterprise architecture,
new challenges, future goals and roadmap of enterprise architecture.
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