Vivek Gupta is an IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture consultant within the Global Consulting practice in TCS. His area of expertise is convergence of Business and IT for the enterprise as well as individual programme levels.

His background, spanning 16 years in the IT industry, includes Enterprise Architecture assessment, IT Strategy definition, Service Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management.

He is currently heading the architecture team for a leading financial service organisation in UK.

Yogesh Vitavkar is a Senior Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). He advises organisations on aligning Architecture Strategy to business goals.

He has over 14 years of IT experience specialising in Enterprise Architecture , Enterprise Integration and Service Oriented Architecture. In the recent past he has established and led the Integration Practice for TCS UK primarily focusing on advising customers on Integration strategy , SOA and business process management.

He has worked as a Technical Architect for several organisations in Financial Services, Transportation and public sector in the past.

Presentation

Do's and Don'ts for successful SOA deployment

Today's innovative market leaders are in the forefront of implementing Service Oriented Architecture. Service Orientated Architecture is a business transformation enabler and is commonly acknowledged as the most cost effective way to integrate disparate systems together. SOA deployment is viewed in most of the organisations as an enterprise-scale initiative requiring a cultural change that impacts the business, technology, people and structure of the entire enterprise. A change of this scale necessitates highest-level of business, IT sponsorship and commitment.

A properly designed architecture helps you leverage existing equipment and software systems. It also reduces transaction costs, while improving visibility and control of business processes. The right solution also lifts several burdens from the IT department--like excessive maintenance activities, hard-coding integration efforts and manual information retrieval. However, more often then not a SOA deployment fails to deliver to its promise of flexibility and re-use. One common theme observed by various CIOs and IT directors is that SOA couldn?t deliver what have been presented in business case. As a business leader, you expect efficient transformation and not delayed deployments or IT problems in current economic climate.

This presentation highlights the do's and don'ts to make organisations successful in SOA deployment.

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