Mr. Kumar is President and CEO of ApTSi (Applied Technology Solutions, Inc.) a visionary organization focused on SaaS, SOA, EA, information architecture, security, and application solutions. Nikhil is also co-chair of the SOA Reference Architecture Project for the Open Group, where he also participates in a number of different projects. At ApTSi, Nikhil is responsible for defining corporate strategy, direction and business development, while providing consulting services to key ApTSi clients.

His educational background includes graduate and postgraduate degrees in engineering and computer science, he has been on the international who's who list and is the author of articles on SOA, papers on SOA, EA and Aspect Oriented Programming. Some engagements with ApTSi include the EA and SOA for GMAC, security, EA and capability mapping at the Hartford, SOA governance at a number of companies, the vision and guidance for SOA, security and architecture at Sovereign Bank and enterprise reuse at AFLAC. Nikhil is also driving ApTSi’s Actionable SOA Engineering Continuum™ platform and the SOASense™ and SOAReality™ product lines.

Presentation

Architecting Capabilities with The Open Group SOA Reference Architecture

This presentation reviews the different scenarios covered by the Open Group SOA Reference Architecture and a brief overview of the The Open Group RA. It walks through in particular the scenario in which an enterprise uses the The Open Group RA to derive its own Enterprise SOA RA, using a couple of illustrative examples.

The presentation also reviews the role of the The Open Group RA on relating security, SOA and the cloud, with one of the examples illustrating an organization adopting cloud computing based solutions for one of its capabilities.

The presentation uses a capabilities mapping approach to illustrate which capabilities are required and how the The Open Group RA is used to derive the associated Architectural Building Blocks and the required SOA assets.

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