Infosys Knowledge Sharing Series on Technology

Information Technology (IT) is a key driver of stakeholder value for any successful organisation. More and more business is transacted via IT infrastructure and without human intervention. In this environment, IT must deliver essential capabilities unerringly.

These essentials include robust enterprise architecture capable of keeping pace with growth, infrastructure that can comply with business service levels and effective security to protect enterprise assets.

At Infosys, we understand the importance of maximising the value of your investments in technology. This series of webinars will highlight the core issues from an IT architecture, infrastructure and security standpoint that impact your business performance and what you can do to manage them effectively.

1. Enterprise Architecture: A governance framework (Part 1)
2. The converged enterprise - An ROI perspective
3. Securing outsourced business operations - An enterprise security perspective
4. Legacy enablement and migration to SOA
5. Enterprise Architecture: A governance framework (Part 2)

1. Enterprise Architecture: A governance framework (Part 1)
Date: 3rd Aug 2005
Time: 08:00 A.M. Pacific Time (05:00 PM Central Europe Time / 04:00 PM British Summer Time)

While the dimensions of defining an enterprise architecture model - business, information, application and technical - have been fairly well established over the last years and appear in most models, there is much less clarity about how to govern enterprise architecture.

Governance determines the impact of the architecture on business, information systems and applications. We propose to describe and manage this governance along seven dimensions: Leadership, organization, Processes, measurement, policies & principles, investment and tool enablement. We discuss the relevance of these dimensions for understanding and improving the impact of an architecture group and describe best practices for implementing them.

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About the speakers:

Sohel Aziz is a Principal Architect with Infosys Technologies. He has over 12 years of experience as technology architect, technology program manager and analyst. Sohel has extensive experience in enterprise and technical architecture assessment and definition. His current focus areas are enterprise architecture and effective governance models. Recently, he was a speaker on Enterprise Architecture Governance at the Open Group's IT Architecture Practitioners conference

Thomas Obitz is a Senior Technical Architect with Infosys Technologies. He has 15 years of experience in conceptualizing and designing large scale distributed systems, especially in the area of investment banking and capital markets. His areas of interest are enterprise architecture, its potential vs. perceived benefits, and mechanisms for its effective implementation.

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2. The converged enterprise - An ROI perspective
Date: 9th Aug 2005
Time: 08:00 A.M. Pacific Time(05:00 PM Central Europe Time / 04:00 PM British Summer Time)

There is an increased awareness among enterprises worldwide, that converged networks can deliver voice, data, video and text in a single unified channel. Any enterprise client can reap the benefits of lower costs, better efficiency and improved end to end services by bundling voice, video and data together. The right balance of technology and Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning will lead to efficient bandwidth utilization, without compromising on quality. If implemented correctly, investing in network convergence will result in better ROI compared to running multiple networks. It will also provide improved customer experience combined with a single window for management.

About the speaker:

Ganesh Babu is a Principal Consultant with Infosys Technologies. He has over 15 years of experience in designing, implementing and supporting mission critical infrastructure for enterprises. His areas of expertise are designing voice / data call centers and enterprise network implementation. At Infosys, he is involved in defining and designing a next generation IP based contact center covering voice, IVR, chat and email, in the financial services domain. He is also a certified Nortel Technical Instructor for APAC

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3. Securing outsourced business operations - An enterprise security perspective
Date: 11th Aug 2005
Time: 08:00 A.M. Pacific Time (05:00 PM Central Europe Time / 04:00 PM British Summer Time)

With increased emphasis on outsourcing and the current geo-political landscape, security concerns top the list of priorities. Increasing outsourcing of business processes (and consequently information) combined with compliance regulations mean that ensuring the security of operations is critical to business survival.

A composite mix of protection measures using best fit technology, stringent processes and mandated compliance can help enterprises to safeguard global data and sustain the business advantage that comes out of outsourcing.

In this webinar, we will discuss key protective measures that enterprises need to adopt and establish with service providers to secure their outsourced businesses.

About the speaker:

Senthil Rajan is a Principal Consultant with Infosys Technologies. He has over 12 years of experience in the areas of infrastructure design, networking, data center operations & security architecture design and audit. His experience includes infrastructure and security work at an Internet Service Provider. He is a CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) and a BS7799 Lead Auditor.

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4. Legacy enablement and migration to SOA
Date: 17th Aug 2005
Time: 08:00 A.M. Pacific Time(05:00 PM Central Europe Time / 04:00 PM British Summer Time)

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides an opportunity to tackle critical business and IT issues at a strategic level by designing open standards based services out of business process models. The benefits are well documented. But there is a distinct lack of clarity with regards to the process to be followed for migration to a full blown SOA. Most large organizations have a significant investment in legacy systems that often restrict the flexibility of the enterprise as a whole.

Apart from this, skills appropriate for legacy systems are becoming rare. Therefore, Infosys believes that migration out of legacy platforms will become a critical area of focus for IT budgets within the next 3 years.

We present an approach that can be followed for migration of an IT portfolio to SOA leveraging existing business and IT initiatives. Our migration methodology has been tailored to focus on IT portfolios involving a sizable legacy component.

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About the speaker:

Dr. Sriram Anand is a Principal Researcher at the Software Engineering and Technologies labs in Infosys Technologies. His 12 years of experience include product engineering, consulting and research. His research areas are enterprise architecture, service-oriented architecture, legacy integration and software engineering methodologies. Dr. Anand has extensive experience of developing enterprise architecture strategy for organizations in the financial services, retail and pharmaceutical domain.

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5. Enterprise Architecture: A governance framework (Part 2)
Date: 6th Sep 2005
Time: 08:00 A.M. Pacific Time(05:00 PM Central Europe Time / 04:00 PM British Summer Time)

While the dimensions of defining an enterprise architecture model - business, information, application and technical - have been fairly well established and appear in most models, there is much less clarity about how to govern enterprise architecture. Governance determines the impact of the architecture on business, information systems and applications.

Governance, by our definition, is more than a process. We believe that only an integrated set of dimensions provides the mechanism for defining, implementing, managing and measuring the effectiveness of the Enterprise Architectural (EA) disciplines.

We propose to describe governance along seven dimensions. In the first webinar of the series on this topic we have discussed the three dimensions of leadership, organization & investment.

In this session we will discuss the other four dimensions for making the EA Governance work i.e. policies & principles, processes, measurement and enabling tools in addition to the best practices and assessment for EA governance.

Read Infosys' view on Enterprise Architecture

About the speakers:

Sohel Aziz is a Principal Architect with Infosys Technologies. He has over 12 years of experience as technology architect, technology program manager and analyst. Sohel has extensive experience in enterprise and technical architecture assessment and definition. His current focus areas are enterprise architecture and effective governance models. Recently, he was a speaker on Enterprise Architecture Governance at the Open Group's IT Architecture Practitioners conference

Thomas Obitz is a Senior Technical Architect with Infosys Technologies. He has 15 years of experience in conceptualizing and designing large scale distributed systems, especially in the area of investment banking and capital markets. His areas of interest are enterprise architecture, its potential vs. perceived benefits, and mechanisms for its effective implementation.

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