Sridhar Sudarsan is an Executive IT architect with Software Lab Services in IBM. He has led enterprise architecture solutions for several customers worldwide, including large companies in the finance, public sector, automobile, and SRM industry verticals for several years. He has worked with many clients in their efforts to adopt SOA; he has worked with companies in formulating and realizing their IT strategy.  He is co-creator of the batch programming model in J2EE, and spends portion of his time in enterprise batch modernization efforts in IBM and the industry. He is the founder and chair of the Central Texas chapter.

Presentation
Adopting SOA - Aligning the business and IT
We see an increasing trend for the business and IT teams working closely and the skill sets required for being successful in these once-separate roles continue to cross pollinate. This convergence of roles has deep implications in how the business functions. For example, innovative workgroups are creating their own situational applications rather than relying on the support of corporate-wide packaged application. Departments that were working on their own IT systems now focus on reuse of services in business units across the enterprise. This session will explore how business process management, Service Oriented Architecture, evolving business models, and governance are drawing business and IT together.

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