Nikhil Kumar is President and CEO of ApTSi (Applied Technology Solutions, Inc.) He is responsible for defining corporate strategy, direction and business development, while providing consulting services to key ApTSi clients.

Nihil's educational background includes graduate and postgraduate degrees in engineering and computer science, and he has been on the international who's who list in the 90's.

Some engagements with ApTSi Si include oversight architect for GMAC's MIC subsidiary, establishing SOA governance at banks in Boston and a large New Jersey Financial institution, an engagement with a major utility to establish an ESB/SOA/ EII framework, and a major enterprise re-use initiative.

Nikhil is currently leading ApTSi'?s move into o the Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) domain and provides the technical vision and direction for ApTSi.

Presentation
EA and SOA: Aligning for Agility and Innovation
SOA is driving alignment of business drivers to IT, as well as alignment within IT. EA is the natural owner of this aspect of SOA. Business drivers include: outsourcing, business virtualization, global competitiveness, agility, compliance, and innovation to meet new business models. Crucial to enabling that is the effective implementation of governance. An effective governance model aligns business drivers, governance principles and policies and defines actionable governance mechanisms. It covers the breadth of strategy definition, portfolio driven architecture through to runtime governance and a continuous improvement model. To be actionable it has to be right-sized to the organization, but we are seeing the need for this at organizations, both large and small. Further, to be actionable it also has to address organizational structural and process issues, decision rights and ownership. In practice, EA is a key stakeholder and owner in this governance model, as well as a key implementer. Over the long-term, EA needs to provide the stewardship to facilitate a governance model that is agile and withstands changing organizational needs, direction and vision.

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