Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference The Open Group
  Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Chief Identity & SOA Architect, Sun Microsystems, US  


Rakesh RadhakrishnanRakesh Radhakrishnan is a Sr. IT Architect in the Communications Market Area of Sun. He has covered Telecom Companies, Network Equipment Providers (NEP), Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Service Provider accounts in Europe, Canada, USA and Latin America.

He has over 15 years of experience and has an MBA (MIS) and MS (MIT). He is an active member of Customer Engineering Council (CEC) and was the Chairman of a Working Group on Container Alignment Engine (CAE patent received from Europe and US) and STAR at Sun. He also has Defensive Disclosures on Correlated Identity. He has published more than 50 papers on IT Architectures (Frameworks, Process and Techniques) and is a frequent speaker in conferences including ITU, DIDW, OMG, TOG, CMG, IRM, SuperG, SunNetwork, Java ONE, etc. He has led multiple Architecture Workshops and Architecture Assessments for IT Consolidation and Network Identity projects. He was recently featured on Officer Outlook for his work on Aligning Architectural Approaches (Sun's WS-Incite Award for 2005). He is the recipient of the "Above and Beyond" award from the Sun/Nortel team in 2007 and also the "Outstanding Contributor Award" from SEI. He was selected as a "Stellar Volunteer" -amongst 25 such volunteers from Sun Celebrating 25 years.sun

Rakesh is also Certified by The Open Group (on TOGAF 8), SEI (as a SW Architect) and OGC (Prince 2 and ITIL). He has Green Belt Six Sigma training. He is a ECCSE (Enterprise Computing Certified Systems Engineer -Competency 2000- from Sun ) and as a Systems Architect Pro (from Peoplesoft).

He is the Author of the Book titled "Identity and Security" and is currently working on its sequel "Identity and Policy" (2008).

His blog can be found at http://network-identity.com

   
 

Presentation
Aligning ADM and SOA for Successfull EA
This presentation will cover the core concepts and value proposition of SOA as a Target Enterprise Architecture and the core concepts and value proposition of ADM as a Target EA development method. It will also cover the synergies achieved when the two are combined. The presentation will also talk to some of the lessons learned from Enterprise Architecture Assessments within the Telecom Industry Globally from the past that leveraged ADM and SOA to Assess an As-is EA, Findings in terms of GAPS and Stages required towards a Target EA.

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