Amit heads the Enterprise Architecture Practice for SITA, a global player in the Travel and Transport industry. In his current role, Amit is responsible for providing services around Business Architecture and Technical Architecture to SITA business units. Amit also runs the Architecture Review Council providing the overarching Technology and Architecture Governance for SITA.

Before joining SITA, Amit was the head architecture for Star Alliance, world's biggest airline alliance where he was responsible for implementing middleware platform and business process management practice.

Amit holds a MS Computer Science, is TOGAF 8 certified and has years of experience in the areas of large-scale, distributed IT system implementations, outsourcing and business process management.

Presentation
Business driven Enterprise Architecture

"Making enterprise architecture relevant to business" remains an ultimate challenge of any architecture and technology team, irrespective of its size, age and other attributes. How can traditionally technology driven architecture be a differentiator or valued asset for a CIO in today’s dynamic, challenging economic and business environment?

In order to enhance its business relevance, the Enterprise Architecture Practise needs to scale up to meet business challenges, transform itself to deliver benefits and ROI in business terms of reference instead of traditional technology terms.

In this session, Amit will discuss some of the common EA roadblocks and strategies to negotiate with them.

Why Business driven Enterprise Architecture?

• Drivers of the Enterprise Architecture: Business or Technology?
• Advantages of Business driven Enterprise Architecture

Challenges in implementing Business driven Enterprise Architecture

• Classic Mousetrap : Technology driven architecture
• SOA without baseline? Where are my business processes?

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