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'He kept a little flame of geometry alive'
Superstar University of Toronto mathematician considered himself an artist, but his seminal work inevitably found practical applications
By Siobhan ROBERTS Saturday, April 12, 2003 - Page F11
Widely considered the greatest classical geometer of his time and the man who saved his discipline from near extinction, Harold Scott MacDonald COXETER, who died on March 31 at 96, said of himself, with characteristic modesty, "I am like any other artist. It just so happens that what fills my mind is shapes and numbers."
Prof. COXETER's work focused on hyperdimensional shapes, specifically the symmetry of regular figures and polytopes. Polytopes are geometric shapes of any number of dimensions that cannot be constructed in the real world and can be visualized only when the eye of the beholder possesses the necessary insight; they are most often described mathematically and sometimes can be represented with hypnotically intricate fine-line drawings.
"I like things that can be seen," Prof. COXETER once remarked. "You have to imagine a different world where these queer things have some kind of shape."
Known as Donald (shortened from MacDonald,) Prof. COXETER had such a passion for his work and unrivalled elegance in constructing and writing proofs that he motivated countless mathematicians to pick up the antiquated discipline of geometry long after it had been deemed passé.
John Horton CONWAY, the Von Neumann professor of mathematics at Princeton University, never studied under Prof. COXETER, but he considers himself an honorary student because of the COXETERian nature of his work.
"With math, what you're doing is trying to prove something and that can get very complicated and ugly. COXETER always manages to do it clearly and concisely," Prof. CONWAY said. "He kept a little flame of geometry alive by doing such beautiful works himself.
"I'm reminded of a quotation from Walter Pater's book The Renaissance. He was describing art and poetry, but he talks of a small, gem-like flame: 'To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.' "
Prof. COXETER's oeuvre included more than 250 papers and 12 books. His Introduction to Geometry, published in 1961, is now considered a classic -- it is still in print and this year is back on the curriculum at McGill University. His Regular Polytopes is considered by some as the modern-day addendum to Euclid's Elements. In 1957, he published Generators and Relations for Discrete Groups, written jointly with his PhD student and lifelong friend Willy MOSER. It is currently in its seventh edition.
Prof. COXETER's self-image as an artist was validated by his Friendship with and influence on Dutch artist M. C. ESCHER, who, when working on his Circle Limit 3 drawings, used to say, "I'm Coxetering today."
They met at the International Mathematical Congress in Amsterdam in 1954 and then corresponded about their mutual interest in repeating patterns and representations of infinity. In a letter to his son, Mr. ESCHER noted that a diagram sent to him by Prof. COXETER that inspired his Circle Limit 3 prints "gave me quite a shock."
He added that " COXETER's hocus-pocus text is no use to me at all.... I understand nothing, absolutely nothing of it."
While Mr. ESCHER claimed total ignorance of math, Prof. COXETER wrote numerous papers on the Dutchman's "intuitive geometry."
Though Prof. COXETER did geometry for its own sake, his work inevitably found practical application. Buckminster FULLER encountered his work in the construction of his geodesic domes. He later dedicated a book to Prof. COXETER: "By virtue of his extraordinary life's work in mathematics, Prof. COXETER is the geometer of our bestirring twentieth century. [He is] the spontaneously acclaimed terrestrial curator of the historical inventory of the science of pattern analysis."
Prof. COXETER's work with icosohedral symmetries served as a template of sorts in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the Carbon 60 molecule. It has also proved relevant to other specialized areas of science such as telecommunications, data mining, topology and quasi-crystals.
In 1968, Prof. COXETER added to his list of converts an anonymous society of French mathematicians, the Bourbakis, who actively and internationally sought to eradicate classical geometry from the curriculum of math education.
"Death to Triangles, Down with Euclid!" was the Bourbaki war cry. Prof. COXETER's rebuttal: "Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But the Bourbakis were sadly mistaken."
One member of the society, Pierre CARTIER, met Prof. COXETER in Montreal and became enamoured of his work. Soon, he had persuaded his fellow Bourbakis to include Prof. COXETER's approach in their annual publication. "An entire volume of Bourbaki was thoroughly inspired by the work of COXETER," said Prof. CARTIER, a professor at Denis Diderot University in Paris.
In the 1968 volume, Prof. COXETER's name was writ large into the lexicon of mathematics with the inauguration of the terms "COXETER number," " COXETER group" and "COXETER graph."
These concepts describe symmetrical properties of shapes in multiple dimensions and helped to bridge the old-fashioned classical geometry with the more au courant and applied algebraic side of the discipline. These concepts continue to pervade geometrical discourse, several decades after being discovered by Prof. COXETER.
Prof. COXETER became a serious mathematician at the relatively late age of 14, though family folklore has it that, as a toddler, he liked to stare at the columns of numbers in the financial pages of his father's newspaper.
He was born into a Quaker family in Kensington, just west of London, on February 9, 1907. His mother, Lucy GEE, was a landscape artist and portrait painter, and his father, Harold, was a manufacturer of surgical instruments, though his great love was sculpting.
They had originally named their son MacDonald Scott COXETER, but a godparent suggested that the boy's father's name should be added at the front. Another relative then pointed out that H.M.S. COXETER made him sound like a ship of the royal fleet so the names were switched around.
When Prof. COXETER was 12, he created his own language -- "Amellaibian" a cross between Latin and French, and filled a 126-page notebook with information on the imaginary world where it was spoken.
But more than anything he fancied himself a composer, writing several piano concertos, a string quartet and a fugue. His mother took her son and his musical compositions to Gustav HOLST. His advice: "Educate him first."
He was then sent to boarding school, where he met John Flinders PETRIE, son of Egyptologist Sir Flinders PETRIE. The two were passing time at the infirmary contemplating why there were only five Platonic solids -- the cube, tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron. They then began visualizing what these shapes might look like in the fourth dimension. At the age of 15, Prof. COXETER won a school prize for an English essay on how to project these geometric shapes into higher dimensions -- he called it "Dimensional Analogy."
Prof. COXETER's father took his son along with his essay to meet friend and fellow pacifist Bertrand RUSSELL. Mr. RUSSELL recommended Prof. COXETER to mathematician E.H. NEVILLE, a scout, of sorts, for mathematics prodigies. He was impressed by Prof. COXETER's work but appalled by some inexcusable gaps in his mathematical knowledge. Prof. NEVILLE arranged for private tutelage in pursuit of a scholarship at Cambridge. During this period, Prof. COXETER was forbidden from thinking in the fourth dimension, except on Sundays.
He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1926 and was among five students handpicked by Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN for his philosophy of mathematics class. During his first year at Cambridge, at the age of 19, he discovered a new regular polyhedron that had six hexagonal faces at each vertex.
After graduating with first-class honours in 1929, he received his doctorate under H. F. BAKER in 1931, winning the coveted Smith's Prize for his thesis.
Prof. COXETER did fellowship stints back and forth between Princeton and Cambridge for the next few years, focusing on the mathematics of kaleidoscopes -- he had mirrors specially cut and hinged together and carried them in velvet pouches sewn by his mother. By 1933, he had enumerated the n-dimensional kaleidoscopes -- that is, kaleidoscopes operating up to any number of dimensions.
The concepts that became known as COXETER groups are the complex algebraic equations he developed to express how many images may be seen of any object in a kaleidoscope (he once used a paper triangle with the word "nonsense" printed on it to track reflections).
In 1936, Prof. COXETER was offered an assistant professorship at the University of Toronto. He made the move shortly after the sudden death of his father and following his marriage to Rien BROUWER. She was from the Netherlnds and he met her while she was on holiday in London.
As a professor, Prof. COXETER was known to flout set curriculum. Ed BARBEAU, now a professor at the U of T, recalled that at the start of his classes, Prof. COXETER would spread out a manuscript on the desks at the front of the room. During his lecture, he would often pause for minutes at a time to make notes when a student offered something that might be relevant to his work in progress. When the work was later published, students were pleasantly surprised to find that their suggestions had been duly credited.
Prof. COXETER was also known to show up to class carrying a pineapple, or a giant sunflower from his garden, demonstrating the existence of geometric principles in nature. And he was notorious for leaping over details, expecting students to fill in the rest.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's resident intellectual, Lister SINCLAIR, was one of Prof. COXETER's earliest students. He once recounted that Prof. COXETER would "write an expression on the board and you could see it talking to him. It was like Michelangelo walking around a block of marble and seeing what's in there."
Asia Ivic WEISS, a professor at York University, Prof. COXETER's last PhD student and the only woman so honoured, describes an incident that perfectly exemplifies Prof. COXETER's math myopia. Going into labour with her first child, she called him to cancel their weekly meeting. Prof. COXETER, who never acknowledged her pregnancy, said not to worry, he would send over a stack of research to keep her busy when she got home from the hospital.
Despite several offers from other universities, Prof. COXETER stayed at University of Toronto throughout his career.
Like his father, he was a pacifist. In 1997, he was among those who marched a petition to the university president's office to protest against an honorary degree being conferred on George BUSH Sr. Prof. COXETER recalled with disdain Robert PRITCHARD's telling him, "Donald, I have more important things to worry about."
After his official retirement in 1977, Prof. COXETER continued as a professor emeritus, making weekly visits to his office. These subsided only in the past several months. On the weekend before his death, he finished revisions on his final paper, which he had delivered the previous summer in Budapest.
In his last five years, he survived a heart attack, a broken hip (he sprung himself from the hospital early to drive to a geometry conference in Wisconsin) and, most recently, prostate cancer.
Considering his 96 years of vegetarianism and a strict exercise regime, he felt betrayed by his body. "I feel like the man of Thermopylae who doesn't do anything properly," he commented recently after an awkward evening out, quoting nonsense poet Edward LEAR.
Prof. COXETER died in his home, with three long last breaths, just before bed on the last day of March.
His brain is now undergoing study at McMaster University, along with that of Albert EINSTEIN. Neuroscientist Sandra WITELSON is tryng to determine whether his brain's extraordinary capacities are associated with its structure.
Prof. COXETER met with her at the beginning of March and learned that the atypical elements of Einstein's brain, compared with an average brain, were symmetrical on both right and left sides.
Prof. WITELSON said she wondered whether there might be similar findings with Prof. COXETER's brain. "Isn't that nice," he said. "I suppose that would indicate all my interest in symmetry was well founded."
Prof. COXETER leaves his daughter Susan and son Edgar. His wife died in 1999.
Siobhan ROBERTS is a Toronto writer whose biography of Donald COXETER will be published by Penguin in 2005.
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
|7:45 - 8:45
|Registration & Networking
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Welcome and Opening Address; and Enterprise Transformation and the Role of Open StandardsAllen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
Welcome and Opening Address
Enterprise Transformation and the Role of Open Standards
Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
Enterprise transformation seems to be gathering momentum within the enterprise architecture community. The term, enterprise transformation, suggests the process of fundamentally changing an enterprise. Sometimes the transformation is dramatic but for most of us it is a steady process.
Key takeaways:
Allen Brown is President and CEO, The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. For over 10 years Allen has been responsible for driving The Open Group's strategic plan and day-to-day operations, including extending its reach into new global markets, such as China, the Middle East, South Africa and India. In addition, he was instrumental in the creation of the AEA, which was formed to increase job opportunities for all of its members and elevate their market value by advancing professional excellence.
Prior to joining The Open Group, Allen Brown held a range of senior financial and general management roles both within his own consulting firm, which he founded in 1987, and other multi-national organizations.
Allen is TOGAF® 9 certified, an MBA alumnus of the London Business School and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
|9:30 - 10:15
Leadership, Systems Thinking and Complexity Management: Charting the Future of EADr. Pallab Saha, Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore
Leadership, Systems Thinking and Complexity Management: Charting the Future of EA
Dr. Pallab Saha, Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore
Governments are changing, by design, necessity and compulsion. This change is being exacerbated and shaped by megaforces that interact in a complex labyrinth of evolving nodes and connections. As a result, today's government leaders and policy makers operate in the realm of confounding uncertainties and astounding complexities. These lead to incomplete and often non-actionable information that make decisions increasingly speculative. To unlock the grid and move forward, it is being acknowledged that governments of the future have to be connected. Connected government is no utopia. It is simply a pragmatic approach to capitalize on complexity. Enterprise Architecture (EA) as a metadiscipline provides governments and leaders the means to address the twin challenges of dynamism and complexity. As governments become increasingly hyperconnected, they ought to be examined as systems, where holism, causality, heterarchy and interrelationships are crucial to ensuring overall coherence in a state of omnipresent flux. This contrasts with the traditional fixation on efficiency and cost. Going beyond the rhetoric, this session demonstrates the value of amalgamating the systems approach within EA methodology to address a national priority in Singapore, and provides insights to amplify the impact of EA by integrating creative thinking to tackle complex problems that enterprise transformation brings forth.
Intended audience: Chief Architects, Business Analysts;.Transformation Specialists; Consultants & Practitioners; CIOs, Chief Str Officers
Key takeaways:
Dr. Pallab Saha's current research, consulting and teaching interests include Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Governance. Dr. Saha has published four books: Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice; Advances in Government Enterprise Architecture; Coherency Management -- Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility and Assurance; and Enterprise Architecture for Connected eGovernment Practices and Innovations. His books are widely referred making it to the top seller list in 2008 and 2009.
Identified as a Technology Thought Leader by Forrester, Dr. Saha is the primary author of the Methodology for AGency ENTerprise Architecture (MAGENTA) and Government EA Guidebook for the Government of Singapore and has led them to international prominence.
Earlier, as Head of Development, Dr. Saha managed Baxter's offshore centre in Bangalore. He has had engagements in Fortune 100 organizations in various capacities. Dr. Saha holds a Ph.D in Management (Information Systems) from theIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore and has received the best research design and best thesis awards. He is an alumnus of the MIT Sloan Executive Program.
|10:15 - 11:00
Transforming Business and Transforming IndiaSom Mittal, President, NASSCOM
Transforming Business and Transforming India
Som Mittal, President, NASSCOM
In his session, Som Mittal will provide perspectives on the evolving landscape of the IT-BPM industry's growth in India. In particular, he will focus on new business models, innovation, transformation and service delivery partnerships across the value chainSom Mittal is President of NASSCOM, the premier trade body for the IT-BPO Industry in India and is playing a key role to enable NASSCOM and the industry realize its strategic vision of `Transforming Business and Transform India'. NASSCOM in its 20+ years of inception has partnered with the industry and government to define policies, build growth segments, enhance international collaboration, facilitate talent development, build global leadership, strengthen cyber security and help industry adopt best practices in all its spheres of operation. Technology enabled inclusive growth and building a vibrant domestic market are key initiatives launched by NASSCOM to enable better delivery of services, access and skill development in the country.
|11.00 - 11.30
|Tea / Coffee
|11:30 - 12:15
Compelling Reasons for Open and Collaborative ITSudin Apte, CEO and Managing Director, Offshore Insights Research & Solutions
Compelling Reasons for Open and Collaborative IT
Sudin Apte, CEO and Managing Director, Offshore Insights Research & Solutions
Focus of IT organizations is shifting from underlying technology to business processes and business leaders are asking CIOs of organizations to transform and deliver industry leading business processes. But often the processes flow across various departments and functions that use diverse systems. Further, changes in business models, increasing penetration of technology in business delivery and rising adoption of emerging technologies like cloud and Mobility are making matters further complex. To deliver this requirement across functions and apps firms, and for assured connectivity across systems one needs standardization and better collaboration. The session will discuss:
The speaker will present latest client side data and examples to discuss above issues and how open standards forms one of the core pillar to achieve high performance collaborative IT.
Sudin Apte is a leading business and technology advisor. Sudin is a veteran industry analyst, and established thought leader. Over last 15 years he has been advising global corporations to build their IT strategy and helping them to extend IT's value for their business benefits. He has founded his own research company Offshore Insights Research and Solutions, with its headquarters in Pune, India. This venture focuses on Business and Technology research and provides advice to top technology companies as well as Fortune 500 companies. One of his focus area is Outsourced/Offshore Product Development (OPD) and he is working with some of the top high-tech, software and manufacturing companies who are long term offshore clients (via partners or own facility) as well as few of focused OPD service providers. Recently he is working on OPD market trends (budget, post recession changes, adoption new/emerging technologies, trends related to hot themes like Cloud, Mobility, devices et al in high-tech or hybrid engines, telematics, infotainment et al in Auto/Tier 1, and so on), decision making about R&D/innovation partnering, and criteria for partner selection. Sudin regularly speaks at various prestigious national and international level conferences.
In the last two years he spoke at national level conferences arranged by Nasscom, CSI, Indo American Chamber of Commerce. In same period, he was interviewed and participated more than a twenty times in interviews and panels on CNBC, NDTV Profit, Times Now, and Bloomberg. His exclusive articles, interviews, and quotes appear on weekly basis in leading business press - Economic Times, Times of India, Business Standard, Business Today, Outlook, Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, Asian Age, and regularly in international publications like BusinessWeek, Economist, ComputingWorld, and Wall Street Journal. Sudin has also worked as visiting faculty at Judge Business School – Cambridge University and via Cambridge University's Centre for India and Global Business, he recently conducted industry workshop in UK on Leveraging Global Innovation.
Prior to his current engagement, Sudin started Forrester's operation in India and led it for nearly ten years. He has also worked as VP of business operations at another leading research company – Gartner - before Forrester.
Sudin Apte is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering, Post graduation in Management Science and has a qualification Cost & Works Accounting. Sudin has total 20 years of industry experience.
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Is Enterprise Big Data Analytics for Real?Dr. Gautam Shroff is Vice President & Chief Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services
Is Enterprise Big Data Analytics for Real?
Dr. Gautam Shroff is Vice President & Chief Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services
Stories of web-‐scale analytics on large (even petabytes) of data towards the cause of better search, social-‐networking and of course, targeted online advertising, are legend, and for the most part, quite real. However, when it comes to more traditional enterprises, the story is quite different. The term 'big-‐data analytics' is often overused, oversold, and interpreted at will to serve many purposes: "Big-‐data = Hadoop", traditional BI is too expensive; so use the 'new' open source stack", "oh, we can actually do statistics in addition to slice-‐and-‐ dice", "our business needs to be data-‐driven", "let's exploit social-‐media data" ... and the list can go on.
In this talk I'll ask and attempt to answer, some basic questions:
Dr. Gautam Shroff is Vice President & Chief Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services and heads TCS' Innovation Lab in Delhi, India. As a member of TCS' Corporate Technology Council, he is involved with recommending directions to existing R&D efforts, spawning new R&D efforts, sponsoring external research, and proliferating the resulting technology and intellectual property across TCS' businesses. Prior to joining TCS in 1998, Dr. Shroff had been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA and thereafter of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. He has also held visiting positions at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, and at Argonne National Labs in Chicago. In 1994 he was conferred the "Young Scientist Award" from the Department of Atomic Energy (Govt. of India). Dr.
|1.00 - 2.00
|General Session
|2:00 - 2:45
Skill Development Landscape in IndiaAnita Rajan, Office of Advisor to PM, General Manager, Tata Consultancy Services
Skill Development Landscape in India
Anita Rajan is a key member of the Office of the Advisor to the Prime Minister on Skill Development, supporting the office on development of strategy, policy analysis and facilitation of programs on skill development at the National level.
She leads specific initiatives on vocationalisation of education in partnership with multiple stakeholders including Government, Academia, Private sector and NGO's. This includes design and development of youth focused training programs that meets student aspirations as well as needs of industry.
As a member of CII Manufacturing Council, she contributes to the work of industry associations bringing in greater industry connect into Skill initiatives. Her twenty years of experience both as an educator and subsequent transition into private sector, positions her uniquely to bring learner centric measures into programs as well as bring private sector efficiencies into large Government initiatives of scale and reach.
Anita is an expert resource on speech writing & public talks and supports the Advisor to Prime Minister on public talks and white papers on Skill Development. Credited with appreciation for numerous speeches written over past 10 years, her work was selected as sample training material for a Communications course in Singapore.
As a General Manager in Tata Consultancy Services, she manages external and internal communication for the Vice Chairman's office. Several socially relevant initiatives in TCS have benefitted from her leadership. A highlight of her work is the research and contribution to the book 'The TCS Story and Beyond' by S Ramadorai released in 2011, which was a bestseller.
Prior to joining TCS, she was Head of Research and Training with ILFS - Schoolnet India an E-education company in India. Part of the training think tank of the company, she led the Research and Training team in developing a one year advanced training program for Educators, designed and published student course material books for IT enabled learning and trained over hundred teachers in IT enabled teaching learning practices.
Her research exposure began at the advertising firm Lintas India (Lowe) where she designed qualitative and quantitative advertising research programs. Her experience as an educator includes a specialization in Math education, including as Maharashtra State Government nominated resource person for Mathematics.
Her academic credentials include an MBA in Marketing from Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. She is an alumnus of the prestigious St Stephens College, Delhi University where she earned a BA Maths Honours degree. She also has to her credit a Bachelor in Education degree from Mumbai University.
|2:45 - 3:30
How Is Enterprise Architecture Relevant to India Today? - A SWOT AnalysisVish Vishwanathan, Managing Principal, CC&C Solutions
How Is Enterprise Architecture Relevant to India Today? - A SWOT Analysis
Facilitator: Vish Viswanathan, CC&C Solutions
This will be an interactive session about global EA trends and lessons learned for India. Vish will present a structured planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT analysis) from an Indian perspective. Stakeholders in India will include: corporations, government, IT service providers and IT/business professionals.
Vish Viswanathan is currently Managing Principal of CC&C Solutions, an organization in Asia/Pacific specializing in practical implementations of Enterprise Architecture based on a best-of-breed approach involving TOGAF® and other methodologies and tools. Recent assignments include Enterprise Architecture consultancy, specialized training and implementation assistance in the following sectors:
Vish has had over 25 years of experience in IT & Telecommunications in technical, marketing and strategy positions as senior executive with IBM, Fujitsu and AAPT (Telecommunications) across Asia Pacific having been located in New Delhi, Bangalore, Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore.
During his career, Vish has successfully managed several new technology startup initiatives in Australia, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore.
He is actively spearheading The Open Group activities through championing TOGAF® in Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN regions as the Regional Partner as well as in his capacity as the Vice Chair- Asia Pacific for The Open Group Architecture Forum.
|3.30 - 4.00
|Tea / Coffee
|Track 1
|Track 2 - EA Professional Development
|Track 3
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IT Organization Models – Preparing for Disruptive TechnologiesPrasanna Anantharamaiah, Business Value Consultant, Hewlett Packard India
IT Organization Models – Preparing for Disruptive Technologies
Prasanna Anantharamaiah, Business Value Consultant, Hewlett Packard India
The benefits from disruptive technologies are hard to ignore. It excites both the Business team and also the IT team. These technologies bring change across one or more of People, Process, Technology, Partners and on Information. Secondly, the speed at which some of these technologies are being adopted by large organizations. A successful IT transformation to embrace these new technologies can only happen by understanding and managing the impact on the organization. This session discusses the impact of Cloud, Mobility and Big-Data have on the organization and explores how IT organizational models are being evolved to accept, adopt and maximize benefits from these disruptive technologies.
Prasanna Anantharamaiah is a Business Value consultant and IT Strategist with Hewlett Packard. He specializes in IT Strategy and Architecture, Business and Operational Process consulting, IT Service Management and Management of Organizational Change. Prasanna has worked extensively on IT solutions for large telecom service providers, enterprises in FSI vertical and Data center automation solutions. His research interests include IT organizational model for hybrid cloud environment and Next generation networks. Prasanna serves on the OpenCA certification board for The Open Group. He has five patents to his credit.
AEA - Building a Professional Body for Enterprise ArchitectsSteve Nunn, CEO, Association of Enterprise Architects
AEA - Building a Professional Body for Enterprise Architects
Steve Nunn, CEO, Association of Enterprise Architects
Steve Nunn's role as CEO of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA), is focused on creating and developing the definitive professional association for enterprise architects around the globe. To achieve this, Steve is dedicated to advancing professional excellence amongst AEA's 20,000+ members, whilst raising the status of the profession as a whole.
In addition to his role of CEO of the AEA, Steve is the VP and COO of The Open Group. Steve's primary responsibility for The Open Group is to ensure the legal protection of its assets, particularly its intellectual property. This involves the development, maintenance and policing of the trademark portfolio of The Open Group, including the registered trade marks behind the Open Brand and, therefore, the various Open Group certification programs, including TOGAF®, Open CA, Open CITS, and UNIX® system certification. The licensing, protection and promotion of TOGAF also falls within his remit.
Steve is a lawyer by training and has an L.L.B. (Hons) in Law with French and retains a current legal practising certificate.
National Skill Development – An Enterprise Architecture PerspectiveHarish Iyer, Lead Architect, Special Initiatives, TCS
National Skill Development – An Enterprise Architecture Perspective
Harish Iyer, Lead Architect, Special Initiatives, TCS
Skill development is a key imperative for India to successfully leverage and capitalize on the demographic dividend that it will enjoy in the next few years. But vocational skill development is at a stage of infancy and fraught with challenges and issues. The government has set up a council to develop a strategy at the national level and develop an action plan for skill development to maximize job generation within the country and create human resources for global needs.
Intended Audience: Chief Architects, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Technical Architects, Program Leads,
Harish Iyer has an overall experience of about 18 years in the IT industry and has played a diverse set of roles in this duration. Harish, while currently managing a customer relationship for a large financial services organization, is also working with the Office of the Advisor to the Prime Minister on Skill Development. In this role, he is primarily looking at leveraging IT to enable the vocational education and employment in the country.
Prior to this, Harish was heading the Solution Engineering Group at TCS and was instrumental in setting up this group for developing business solutions within TCS. Harish has been certified as a Distinguished Chief IT Architect by The Open Group and is also a certified TOGAF® architect. Harish has played key architecting roles across various large enterprise engagements across multiple industry domains and has been instrumental in creating key reusable frameworks in the java and integration space.
Harish Iyer is well regarded as a mentor in the architecture and technology space within the organization. His key aspiration is to bring a manufacturing rigour and automation to the area of software development.
|4:40 - 5:20
Best Practices in Setting Up an Enterprise Architecture Organization within the EnterpriseBala Prasad Peddigari, HiTech Innovative Solutions Lead, Tata Consultancy Services
Best Practices in Setting Up an Enterprise Architecture Organization within the Enterprise
Bala Prasad Peddigari, HiTech Innovative Solutions Lead, Tata Consultancy Services
"Excellence is a journey and not a destination". In day to day operations of every enterprise - it is important to have a clear strategy defined to achieve the enterprise-wide business goals and objectives. After being associated with many enterprises to drive architecture functions and activities - I am trying to bring in to share the best practices in setting up an Enterprise Architecture Organization within the enterprise which leads to continuous improving in delivering business results with optimized investments. Some of this practices and initiatives which addresses the same are
All this entailed to provide different needs of enterprise such as EA Strategy, EA Blueprint, EA Roadmap and EA Realization.
Bala Prasad Peddigari (Bala) is an Enterprise Architect and Business Value Consultant with Tata Consultancy Services Limited. Bala specializes in Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategies, Business Value consulting, Cloud based technology solutions and Scalable architectures. Bala has been instrumental in delivering IT Solutions for Finance, Insurance, Telecom and HiTech verticals. Bala currently heads the HiTech Innovative Solutions Technology Excellence Group with a focus on Cloud, Microsoft, Social Computing, Java and Open source technologies. He received accolades in Microsoft Tech Ed for his cloud architectural strengths and Won the Microsoft ALM Challenge. Bala published his papers in IEEE and regular speaker in Open Group conference and Microsoft events. Bala serves on the Open CA Certification board for The Open Group.
Certifications: Open Group Master Certified IT Architect, TOGAF Certified, MCTS - Windows Communication Foundation, SharePoint, Microsoft Delivering Business Value Planning Services
IBM's application of CITS & CA Certification programs for Client SuccessGautam Bhat, Lead Enterprise Architect, IBM India
IBM's application of CITS & CA Certification programs for Client Success
Gautam Bhat, Lead Enterprise Architect, IBM India
Gautam K Bhat is an IBM Certified Senior IT Specialist (Thought Leader) with IBM and The Open Group Distinguished IT Specialist. He has over 12 years of IT experience, and holds multiple roles such as Enterprise Architect and Global SME.
SOA in Future Enterprise ArchitectureManish Parikh, Senior Architect, Atos
SOA in Future Enterprise Architecture
Manish Parikh, Senior Architect, Atos
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an excellent approach to building and deploying mission-critical applications. SOA is flexible & modular approach to delivering IT services, and is an essential foundation for emerging technologies. SOA is the only realistic direction to address today's challenges while also preparing the way for the future using the Cloud
Manish Parikh is working with AtoS as Senior Architect in its Global Organization heading multiple Initiatives specialized in Cloud Computing & Enterprise Content Management. Manish carries over 17 years of IT experience and 6 years of Techno-functional experience. Before joining AtoS, Manish has worked with Siemens Information Systems Limited and was also consultant to multiple companies. Manish is tasked with Application Integration, Solution Architecture, helping customers to set Enterprise Architecture roadmap etc. and providing solutions across industries.
Manish is TOGAF 8.1 Certified Enterprise Architect and holds Masters of Business Administration in Finance. Manish is active member of Association of Enterprise Architects, IASA and many other technical communities.
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EA is Critical to Large Transformation ProgramsSuyog Shah, Lead Enterprise Architect, Deloitte & Touche Consulting India
EA is Critical to Large Transformation Programs
Suyog Shah, Lead Enterprise Architect, Deloitte & Touche Consulting India
Business transformation is increasingly a key driver for many organizations in today's competitive environment where the focus is either on cost reduction by means of improving operational efficiency or on increasing the market share through innovation and other means of growth. Information Technology (IT) is looked upon as one of the key enablers for business innovation and competitive differentiation. As a result, many organizations identify a number of IT initiatives that enable business transformation and alignment of IT to business objectives and drivers. Such initiatives are often undertaken as part of large, multi-year business transformation programs that are aimed at changing and optimizing business processes and enhancing the IT capabilities that enable them. The initial effort and excitement of such changes often propel many transformational projects directly into an execution phase where focus is often on delivery without appropriate investments in program planning and further in planning and definition of the enterprise architecture. Such an approach often results in lack of appropriate guidance for the implementation projects and leads to large pitfalls. Organizations become unclear of what to deliver and how to deliver the change that can provide value to business and provide a return on the investment. Eventually this lack of planning leads to a failure to achieve the transformational objectives.
This presentation highlights the need for enterprise architecture definition in large transformation programs, key considerations for defining the enterprise architecture, key challenges involved, and concludes with the benefits enterprise architecture brings to various stakeholders involved in transformation programs
Intended audience:
CxO level executives, Business & IT leaders involved in transformation, Enterprise Architects, Program and Change Managers.
Key takeaways:
Investing in enterprise architecture as part of a large transformation program helps address challenges faced during the transformation, and ensures alignment of implementation projects to the overall business and IT strategy of the organization. Enterprise architecture acts as a bridge between strategy and implementation by providing the necessary principles and standards, foundation in terms of current state, target state, and transition views, and guidance through governance control mechanisms.Enterprise architecture initiatives need to ensure continuous engagement of IT with business and effective communication across various stakeholders involved in the transformation program. It is important to produce architecture views in line with stakeholder expectations that can guide the transformation and enable timely and effective decision-making. Enterprise architecture frameworks and tools that enable creation of standardized views in a structured and timely manner may be adopted. Although enterprise architecture as a practice has been recognized for more than two decades now and despite its numerous known benefits, it is still often an ignored element in a transformation program until the needs are felt. The aim of this presentation is to re-emphasize the needs of enterprise architecture for large transformations.
Suyog Shah has extensive experience in managing and delivering technology advisory related consulting engagements for industry leading corporations across the globe. Suyog has lead and delivered multiple management consulting engagements on technology strategy, enterprise architecture and IT enabled business transformation.
Creating an Enterprise Architecture Ecosystem for your OrganizationSuresh Cherusseri, Chief Architect, Tata Consultancy Services
Creating an Enterprise Architecture Ecosystem for your Organization
Suresh Cherusseri, Chief Architect, Tata Consultancy Services
The relevance of Enterprise Architecture has increase manifold over the last few decades. In India the IT spending and the industry demand for the skills have seen a tremendous uptake over the last few years. The creation of an Architecture ecosystem to build capability and practice architecture principles is essential for every organization to meet the ever changing business needs and market demands. Leveraging available frameworks like TOGAF, Open CA certifications to build competency as well as leveraging professional organizations like AEA is essential for practitioners to provide right solutions meet the business demands. The session illustrates with an example creation of an Architecture ecosystem and career path leveraging The Open Group frame work to enable architect and deliver solutions better. The session will also discuss how the support system in India comprising of The Open Group, AEA,CSI have come together in India to support the Enterprise Architecture profession and practice over the last 3 years
Intended Audience: CIO,CTO, Business Leads, Practice Leads, Chief Architects, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects,Technical Architects,Program Leads
Key takeaways:
Suresh Cherusseri is the Chief Architect and Head of Solution Engineering Group at TCS. SEG as a group is a core engineering group that builds domain based products. He is himself a Distinguished IT Architect certified by The Open Group. He has more than 24 years of industry, research and innovation experience. In his current role as Head-SEG, Suresh has been single mindedly focusing on engineering world class products that are highly architecture centric and performance driven. He has a number of patents to his credit in this area. In his previous roles, Suresh has worked extensively in architecting complex business solutions and large transformation solutions. Suresh is very active in Open Group arena, is always looking to contribute to a best practice and absorb the best practices into the engineering group.
Policy Based SOA Governance in Enterprise Architecture TransformationAnirban Chakrabarti, Senior Architect, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Policy Based SOA Governance in Enterprise Architecture Transformation
Anirban Chakrabarti, Senior Architect, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Anirban Chakrabarti is an Enterprise Architect working in rchitecture transformation programs for various CTS customers. For the past 5 years, Anirban has been working on architecture governance. He has created a service offering for design-time and run-time policy based SOA governance, unique in the industry.
|6:00 - 8:00
|AEA Chapter Meeting
Friday, February 22, 2013
|7:45 - 8:45
|Registration & Networking
|8:45 - 9:30
Opening Address; and The Open Group Focus in IndiaAllen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group; and James de Raeve, General Manager India and VP Certification, The Open Group
Opening Address
Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
The Open Group Focus in India
James de Raeve, General Manager India and VP Certification, The Open Group
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Security in Governance: Issues and ConcernsLokanath Behera, Inspector General of Police (Operations and Coordination), National Investigation Agency
Security in Governance: Issues and Concerns
Lokanath Behera, Inspector General of Police (Operations and Coordination), National Investigation Agency
A 1985-batch IPS officer, Loknath Behera has been a recipient of President's police medal for distinguished services. At present, he is Inspector General of Police (Operations and Coordination), National Investigation Agency (NIA), Government of India. Behera has been associated with computerisation in the police service since 1994.
|10:15 - 11:00
DSCI Security and Privacy Frameworks and CertificationDr. Kamlesh Bajaj, CEO, Data Security Council of India, a NASSCOM® Initiative
DSCI Security and Privacy Frameworks and Certification
Dr. Kamlesh Bajaj, CEO, Data Security Council of India, a NASSCOM® Initiative
Dr. Kamlesh Bajaj is the CEO of the Data Security Council of India (DSCI). He was the founding Director of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) at the Ministry of Communications and IT and served as Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre (NIC). He was Deputy Controller of Certifying Authorities; and was the Global Head, Information Risk Management Practice, GCP, TCS.
At DSCI, Dr. Bajaj guided the development of best practices Frameworks for data security and privacy protection. He serves on various Government Committees on cyber security and ICT, and contributes to the activities of global bodies like OECD and EWI. He has published and lectured extensively on the IT Act 2000, cyber security and cyber crimes, e-commerce, emerging technologies, digital signatures, in national and international journals and conferences. Dr. Bajaj holds a Ph.D. (Physics) from McMaster University.
|11:00 -11:30
|Tea / Coffee
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An Architecture for IT Literacy through Open Source Software and Spoken TutorialsDr. Kannan M Moudgalya, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai
An Architecture for IT Literacy through Open Source Software and Spoken Tutorials
Dr. Kannan M Moudgalya, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai
Bridging digital divide through Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and helping migration to Scilab from Matlab
A spoken tutorial (http://spoken-tutorial.org) is a ten minute screencast of a computer session with a running commentary. By careful creation and use, it is effectively deployed for self learning and in volunteer organised SELF workshops. By dubbing only the audio, people who are weak in English can be made IT literate, while retaining the employment potential. Through the funding from National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, spoken tutorials and the SELF workshops are available free of cost to everyone. In the last one year, we trained 100,000 students. Through colleges, schools, cyber cafes and Aakash, we can empower everyone.
Dr. Kannan M. Moudgalya is a professor of Chemical Engineering, Systems and Control, and Education Technology at IIT Bombay. He has been with IIT Bombay for 25 years. He was a visiting professor at the University of Alberta. He received chemical and electrical engineering degrees from IIT Madras and Rice University.
Prof. Moudgalya has written two textbooks: (1) Digital Control, published by John Wiley & Sons, Chichester and (2) Optimization: theory and practice, jointly with Prof. M. C. Joshi, published by Narosa, New Delhi. He has published a large number of papers in refereed international journals and conferences in the areas of mathematical modelling, control and simulation.
Prof. Kannan is now devoting his time on spreading education on a massive scale, without quality dilution. He has been focusing on spoken tutorials, open source software systems, virtual labs and the low cost tablet, Aakash. He has held the posts of Associate Dean (R&D), Head of Oce Automation and Head of the Centre for Distance Engineering Education Programme, at IIT Bombay. He is a Member of the Standing Committee of the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.
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Population Health: An Enterprise Architecture ApproachJason Uppal, Chief Architect, QRS
Population Health: An Enterprise Architecture Approach
Jason Uppal, Chief Architect, QRS
The cost of health care in most developed countries has been growing faster than GDP and the result is that the healthcare system is unsustainable. Current strategies such as meaningful use, ACO, Pay for Performance require extensive investment in Health Information Technology (HIT) and current Electronic Health Record (EHR) centric HIT models have also proven costly, disruptive and with very little evidence of positive impact on population health.
As the general public in more and more countries start to expect basic healthcare as a human right, the pressure to build a healthcare system that can offer high quality affordable care will simply increase beyond what can be delivered. Leading organizations are starting to explore alternative HIT architectures and healthcare delivery models and this presentation will discuss:
Jason Uppal, P.Eng. was the first Master IT Architect certified by The Open Group, by direct review, in October 2005. At that point, Jason had been chief architect of QR Systems Inc (www.quickresponse.ca) for six years and had been providing senior Enterprise Architecture services. He holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering, graduate degree in Economics and a post graduate diploma in Computer Science.
Jason's commitment to Enterprise Architecture Life Cycle (EALC) has led him to focus on training (TOGAF), education (UOIT) and mentoring services to his clients as well as being the responsible individual for both Architecture and Portfolio & Project Management for a number of major projects.
Jason has found that education is only beneficial to those companies who can industrialize the EALC process – staff must be able to implement what they have learned. To that end, he lead a team of java software developers to develop an end to end industrialization product which encapsulates Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio and Project Management, Project Management and IT Services Management processes. Implementing this software product, ITO, (www.itoProcesses.com.) permits companies to take full advantage of TOGAF and any other custom processes which might already be in place within their organization
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Case Study: Panchayat Enterprise Architecture Framework (PEAF) - A Framework for eGovernance in Rural Local Bodies (Panchayats) in IndiaDeepak Chandra Misra, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India; and Rama Hariharan, Senior Technical Director, NIC
Case Study: Panchayat Enterprise Architecture Framework (PEAF) - A Framework for eGovernance in Rural Local Bodies (Panchayats) in India
Deepak Chandra Misra, Deputy Director General, National Informatics Centre, Government of India
Rural Local Governance is an important part of the federal governance of India. India has approximately 240,000 rural local governments called Panchayats. As part of its defined mandate, the Ministry has undertaken a massive project of introducing eGovernance in all the 240,000 Panchayats in the country, probably the most unique and largest eGovernance project in the world. It was desired that instead of building eGovernance solutions in silos, an Enterprise solution that covers all functional responsibilities of Panchayats should be built. However, Panchayats vary from state to state in terms of their organizational structure and roles and responsibilities assigned to them. An Enterprise Architecture Framework was developed with Panchayat as an Enterprise. The presentation mainly focuses on presenting the Panchayat Enterprise Architecture Framework.
Our team, at National Informatics Centre (NIC), a premier government organisation promoting & applying eGovernance in government sector, is engaged in introducing eGovernance in ePanchayat i.e. a national level Mission Mode Project. It is part of this conceptulisation, we read, learned and attempted to conceptualise 'Panchayat Enterprise Architecture Framework (PEAF)' based on TOGAF® approach. Panchayats are Rural local bodies in India. They are approximately 240,000 Panchayats in India and can be clustered in 30 types based on their business architecture. The entire study done during the conceptualisation has enhanced our understanding to design the elements and organise (relations) things better and can be further improved.
We have made a beginning and may be the first inside the government sector in India to do so and would like to share our expereince as a part of case study presentation to seek further guidance and feedback.
Intended audience: Policy makers, eGovernance Professionals, Enterprise Architects
Key takeaways:
Deepak Chandra Misra is the head of the Rural Development and Panchayat Informatics Divisions of National Informatics Centre which basically addresses the eGovernance consultancy & solution needs of Ministries of Rural Development, Drinking Water and Panchayati Raj of Government of India. I have extensive experience in providing consultancy to the Ministries in formulating eGovernance strategies and in guiding the team in architecting interoperable, generic solutions that can be used across the country. I have more than 25 years of experience in the area of eGovernance. I have published many papers in national and international conferences.
Rama Hariharan, Senior Technical Director, NIC, has been associated with NIC for more than 25 years and has extensive experience in architecting solutions for the Indian rural domain and the rural local governments of India viz., Panchayats. She is responsible for addressing the eGovernance solution needs of Ministry of Panchayat and the Panchayats.
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Transformational eGovernance ProjectsK V Narayanan, Chief Architect, TCS
Transformational eGovernance Projects
K V Narayanan, Chief Architect, TCS
Technology has proven to be one of the key factors in ensuring that new generation public service delivery programmes to be successful. In this talk the author discusses the characteristics (and challenges) of end to end public service transformational projects and the architectural and governance models required to be implemented for such a project to be successful and for significant benefits to be realized.
KV Narayanan (KVN) is a Vice President and Head of Transformational projects for Government ISU in India. Since 2004 he has been leading very large transformational e governance projects in India. He and his group are responsible for end to end delivery of major outcome based transformational projects such as MCA 21, Passport Seva, Projects for Ministry of Finance , other Government & Defense entities. Prior to this KVN was a key member of TCS' Banking & Financial Services practice for more than 15 years with substantial experience in India and International markets. He is a Masters in Computer Sciences from BITS Pilani and has been with TCS in various roles since 1984.
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Security Issues in Supply ChainDr. Sundeep Oberoi, Head of Niche Technologies, TCS
Security Issues in Supply Chain
Dr. Sundeep Oberoi, Head of Niche Technologies, TCS
Supply Chains are extensively globalized today. The significant advances in Transportation technologies and deployment of Information provided the essential drivers for this phenomenon. While trade in the 20th Century was largely about selling goods manufactured in one country to consumers in another, trade in the 21st Century is characterized more by multiway flow of intermediates, investment and training. While this globalization has delivered compelling benefits, it has also introduced significant risks that we must understand and deal with effectively. This talk outlines some of the key risks in the context of the Pharmaceutical Industry and the ICT equipment manufacturing Industry and how those risks can be addressed.
Dr. Sundeep Oberoi has more than 26 years of industry, research and entrepreneual experience in diverse areas of Information and Communication Technology. He has a wide spectrum of experience in Delivery Management of large and critical programmes, technology development, product development, business development, system integration and management of research laboratories. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from I.I.T Bombay, an M.Tech in Computer Science from I.I.T. Delhi and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from I.I.T. Kanpur.
Dr. Oberoi heads the Niche Technology Delivery Group which is a part of the Technology Excellence Group in TCS. The role of the group is to provide delivery in specialized technology like security, RFID sensors and NFC, Web 2.0 technologies, User experience, Collaboration and Unified Communication, Cloud Computing and Next Generation Networks. The group also runs operations of TCS Certifying Authority which is the largest licensed Certifying Authority in India. The group is responsible for supporting and evolving some of TCS flagship enterprise solutions (Dhruvam®, FormSigner®, Fortiora™, SSF) in the security area, which are widely deployed in Banking, Finance, Insurance, Government and Telecom sectors.
Prior to this Dr. Oberoi has been in a variety of roles including heading the security consulting practice within the TCS Global Consulting Group, heading the Systems Integration and Security Group and heading the language processing group.
Dr. Oberoi is the author of two books and several conference and journal publications, and holds the CISSP credential.
Architecting Technology Led Business Innovation: The TCS ExperienceShashi Bhushan, Global Head - Innovation Evangelization, Tata Consultancy Services
Architecting Technology Led Business Innovation: The TCS Experience
Shashi Bhushan, Global Head - Innovation Evangelization, Tata Consultancy Services
We live in times of extraordinary technology innovations. Mobility, Social networks, Cloud, Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) are examples of technologies that are creating new ways of consuming services in every industry. Technological advance is at an inflection point where the consumer is ahead of the enterprise. Apart from keeping ahead of competitors, businesses must keep pace with customers. Innovations today have to fuse Business and IT, creating new business models. TCS works with its customers to enables them Analyze, Digitize, Optimize, De-Risk and Sustain their businesses.
Workforces in organization are growing younger. Internally too business and IT fuse, as tech savvy GenY demands newer technologies within the workplace.
Shashi Bhushan will share TCS experiences in empowering business innovations within the enterprise and for customers.
As Lead Innovation Evangelist in the Corporate Technology Office at TCS, Shashi Bhushan's main role is to:
Prior to this, Shashi was a Regional Manager for TCS in NY/NJ, USA. He joined TCS in 1993 straight out of college and has grown with the company and the company has grown with him. His overall experience includes: Innovation & Research commercialization, Business development & management, Project management, Consulting, System Programming, Strategy Formulation and Deployment, and Teaching.
Shashi has a Masters in Industrial Management from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.He lives in Bangalore, India, with his wife and two children.
Getting EA Results Fast - A Retail Industry Case StudySuresh Done, President, SNA Technologies Inc
Getting EA Results Fast - A Retail Industry Case Study
Suresh Done, President, SNA Technologies Inc
Normally the perception on Enterprise Architecture is, it is long term and it takes long time to reap the benefits of EA.
Intended audience: CxOs, Enterprise/Solution Architects, Program/Project Managers
Key takeaways:
Suresh Done has more than 22 years of experience in IT and Engineering. Suresh is a TOGAF® 9 certified Enterprise Architect, consulting and training on Enterprise Architecture. He has worked in many industries including Automotive, Health, Telecom, Banking, Retail andGovernment sector. Since the inception of highly successful AEA Michigan Chapter, Suresh has been the Chairman and Co-Founder.
|4:40 - 5:20
Cloud Security - Addressing the Biggest Objection to Making Cloud Part of your IT CoreSreekanth R Iyer, Executive IT Architect, IBM
Cloud Security - Addressing the Biggest Objection to Making Cloud Part of your IT Core
Sreekanth R Iyer, Executive IT Architect, IBM
Businesses like to rapidly adopt cloud computing for creating environments that scales effectively to meet their needs at reduced capital and operational costs. But as with most new technology paradigms, security is widely talked about as the top inhibitor for widespread usage. To gain the trust of organizations and meet security and privacy expectations, cloud security must exceed what is available in traditional IT environments. Our analysis indicates that with rapid growth of virtualized resources across multiple environments, expanded access, changed responsibilities & controls in cloud, the customer's top concern is not so much about security as it is about transparency. Customers need better visibility to do governance and risk management to make cloud a core component of their IT infrastructure. Minimizing the risks of cloud computing and providing visibility into virtual environment requires a strategic approach.
This session helps you define your cloud and clod security strategy based on your cloud adoption patterns and workloads. The solution approach based on IBM Cloud Adoption Patterns & Security Framework goes beyond just considering basic security for infrastructure, applications and other elements to provide optimized security intelligence across the cloud environment.
Sreekanth Iyer is an Executive IT Architect in IBM Security Systems CTO office and works on developing IBM's Cloud Security Technical Strategy. He is an Open Group Certified Distinguished Architect and the chair of the Bangalore Chapter of the Association of Enterprise Architects.
Sreekanth has nearly 18 years' industry experience and has led several client solutions across multiple industries. His key areas of work include Information Security, Cloud Computing, SOA, Event Processing, and Business Process management. He has authored several technical articles and is a core contributor to multiple publications of The Open Group and IBM. He is an invited speaker at multiple IBM conferences like Software Universe, IMPACT and external events like CSI & Cloud Connect. He currently works at the IBM India Software Lab and you can follow the speaker on Twitter @sreek.
Relevance of EA in Addressing Contemporary CxO ChallengesParthapratim Indra, Global Head of GCP-Integrated Consulting Services Group,TCS; and Nagendra Kumar, Consultant, TCS Global Consulting Practice(GCP)
Relevance of EA in Addressing Contemporary CxO Challenges
Parthapratim Indra, Global Head of GCP-Integrated Consulting Services Group,TCS
In contemporary business environment, organizations are facing new challenges in the form of increased global competition, new and changing regulations, shifting customer demand and continuously shifting technology paradigms. As a result, CxOs are forced to address multi-dimensional problems & challenges - entrenched within their complex market-specific, organizational and socio-economic context - with diverse Functional, Cultural and Technology implications. In such situations, considering IT only as an ad-hoc supporting mechanism and not as an organizational change enabler, may lead to additional complexity and sub-optimization.
Parthapratim Indra is a Principal Consultant of TCS' Global Consulting Practice with 24+ years of wide range of experience in multifarious disciplines of IT Industry. Has proven track record in various consulting, technical as well as leadership roles across diverse business domains and technology platforms.
At present Parthapratim is entrusted with the role of Global-Head of GCP-Integrated Consulting Solutions Group. Within the capacity of the current-role his prime responsibility is to drive solution- creation for addressing contemporary business challenges with Strategic, Functional and Technology Implications.
My current focus areas include Business-IT Alignment, Merger/Divestitures & Acquisitions, Business Value Realisation, Enterprise Digital Strategy, Enterprise Transformation and Various Globalisation Perspectives.
Nagendra Kumar is a Consultant with TCS Global Consulting Practice(GCP). Nagendra has over 13 years of wide-ranging IT experience across diverse business domains and technology platforms and a proven track record in designing and executing strategic IT solutions for major clients from Healthcare, Telecom and Media sectors.
Nagendra holds a Masters degree in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
Business Transformation Challenges - TOGAF® to the Rescue!Vish Viswanathan, Managing Principal, CC&C Solutions
Business Transformation Challenges - TOGAF® to the Rescue!
Vish Viswanathan, Managing Principal, CC&C Solutions
EA can only succeed if it is clearly linked to a business transformation or a strategic business initiative. TOGAF® - the Enterprise Architecture standard used by the world's leading organizations to improve business efficiency.
Here are a few sample case studies from global organizations of how an EA initiative can be successfully introduced as:
Vish has had over 25 years of experience in IT & Telecommunications in technical, marketing and strategy positions as senior executive with IBM, Fujitsu and AAPT (Telecommunications) across Asia Pacific having been located in New Delhi, Bangalore, Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore. During his career, Vish has successfully managed several new technology startup initiatives in Australia, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore. He is actively spearheading The Open Group activities through championing TOGAF® in Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN regions as the Regional Partner as well as in his capacity as the Vice Chair- Asia Pacific for The Open Group Architecture Forum.

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The powerful new hepatitis C drug that sent Gilead Science's sales soaring this year is doing the same for the hopes of millions of patients.
Sandra Cabrera and Ted Tabor both suffered devastating damage from hepatitis C. After just weeks of taking Gilead's Sovaldi, they feel much better and tests suggest the lethal virus is disappearing from their blood.
"This is only the third week and I am like almost completely cured," said Cabrera, a 44-year-old from Newark, New Jersey, who had a liver transplant in 2012 due to hepatitis damage. "It is amazing." Cabrera found out this year that the disease had come roaring back, putting her new liver at risk.
Cabrera's doctor recommended Sovaldi — which the company reported Wednesday reaped $3.48 billion in second quarter sales — but met with resistance from her insurance company at first, she said. Priced at $1,000 a pill, the drug is drawing comparisons with the HIV treatment cocktails that turned AIDS from a death sentence into a chronic disease. One big difference this time: Sovaldi in combination with other drugs is a cure.
Like with AIDS almost two decades ago, patients' tales may help broaden access to treatment, said Ryan Clary, executive director of the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization. For now, worry about the drug's high cost prevents some people from getting it, he said.
"The stronger the voice of patients, the sooner we will reach a solution to the problem and ensure that everyone with hepatitis C will be treated," Clary said. "That is what we learned from HIV." He is working with other advocacy groups on a petition demanding that payers and drugmakers come together to find a way to ensure better access.
Gilead is facing complaints from doctors, patients and insurers for the price it charges. One study from the University of Liverpool concluded that 12 weeks' worth of Sovaldi could be manufactured for $136. The Foster City-based company charges $84,000.
"Ensuring patient access to Sovaldi has been a top priority," said John Martin, Gilead's chief executive officer, on a conference call after the earnings were released. The company has been "actively engaging with payers."
Sovaldi has been prescribed to more than 80,000 patients in the U.S. and Europe so far, according to Gilead. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that hepatitis C affects 2.7 million people in the U.S. At least 130 million have the virus worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
Sovaldi's second quarter sales of $3.48 billion beat expectations of $3 billion, according to an average of 12 analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The company also doubled its product sales forecast for the year, including the hepatitis drug for the first time.
Gilead's stock has gained 52 percent in the past 12 months, putting it among the best performers of the 10 biggest global drugmakers by market value.
Since first winning U.S. regulatory approval in December, Sovaldi has forced old-fashioned patient triage, kindling envy among healthier sufferers while leaving some of the sickest patients with the best healing prospects. For those who get it, it can bring a new lease on life.
"We have people breaking down in tears," said Mitchell Shiffman, a doctor at the Liver Institute of Virginia. The patients often have been treated four or five times without success over 15 years "and now they're cured," he said. "It's absolutely amazing. You just turn people's lives around."
Tabor, a retired Royal Philips NV executive living in Paris, received an email from his doctor July 4 with the good news: his blood no longer harbors any trace of the hepatitis virus that has been gnawing at his liver for years.
"I'm doing a happy dance," Tabor said in a telephone interview from Paris. "The miracle meds worked."
Tabor is receiving Sovaldi and the other medicine in his regimen, Bristol-Myers Squibb's daclatasvir, under a special program approved by the French government in March for hepatitis patients with the most advanced disease.
He was diagnosed in 2012 after promising his wife he would go for a health checkup after turning 60. He hadn't felt that anything was amiss.
"You can't really tell whether it's symptoms of an ongoing malady or whether you're getting old," he said. "Fatigue, joint pain, skin discoloration, it's very subtle and occurs over a long time. People just don't know they have it."
When they find out, the damage is sometimes advanced. Hepatitis C slowly attacks the liver and over many years, it can lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver failure.
Tabor, a veteran who worked as a battlefield medic in Vietnam, doesn't know for certain how he was infected, but suspects it was when he and other soldiers were vaccinated with unsterilized air gun injectors.
Before starting on his most recent regimen, Tabor spent two years taking injections with an immune system-booster called interferon, combined with an older drug called ribavirin that stops the hepatitis virus from spreading in the body. The side effects of the cocktail can include fatigue, depression, insomnia and severe mood swings.
"I turned into a raving lunatic, and would scream at people on the street for no reason," Tabor said. "They call it riba-rage. The slightest little thing will set you off."
He also tried some of the first drugs developed to target the hepatitis virus directly: Vertex Pharmaceuticals' Incivek and Merck & Co.'s Victrelis. Those pills boosted cure rates, but added yet more side effects.
"They're all the plagues of Job rolled into one," Tabor said. "I was covered in boils."
For all that, they didn't work. The virus persisted in Tabor's liver until this month.
Tabor still has to take Sovaldi for 12 more weeks, and wait for another 12 before he's officially considered cured. Cabrera, meantime, says she expects to stay on the drug for months until all traces of the virus are gone.
Cabrera, who grew up in a housing project in the Ironbound section of Newark, found out she was infected from a routine blood test in 2008. She doesn't know how she got it.
A year later, Cabrera started getting unexplained symptoms including severe bloating in her legs, nosebleeds, dizziness, and internal bleeding. Doctors in Pennsylvania, where she was living at the time, misdiagnosed her with kidney disease, even as the symptoms gradually got worse and she had to quit her job working at a door factory, she said.
In 2011, after moving back to Newark, a primary care doctor finally connected her symptoms to liver problems from hepatitis. He sent her to a nearby emergency room and told her to refuse to leave until she was seen by a liver disease expert.
To her shock, the doctors there told her liver was failing and put her on the list for a transplant the morning after she arrived, she said. They also diagnosed her with liver cancer, she said.
For months, she slept with her mobile phone by her bed, ready to rush to the hospital whenever an organ became available. After three false alarms, she finally received a new liver in a 16-hour operation in January 2012 that left her with a scar all the way across her belly. The complications of the operation were so bad she was in and out of the hospital for a year.
After she found out early this year that the virus had returned, she was terrified she might have to get a second transplant — especially after she got a letter from her insurer in late May saying it wouldn't pay for Sovaldi.
After her doctors appealed, the insurer approved the drug in late June, she said.
Kristin Binns, a spokeswoman for WellPoin, which operates Cabrera's Medicaid plan, said in an e-mail that the company was unable to approve the initial requests for coverage because it hadn't received key clinical information. Her request was approved once the company received more information, she said.
Within days of starting on Sovaldi and a second drug, Cabrera felt more energetic than she had in years. In mid-July, she found out that levels of virus in her bloodstream had plummeted to almost nothing. She is thinking about going back to work part time after the treatment ends.
Getting the drugs "shouldn't have been so hard," said Cabrera. "It is a big relief because now I can go on with my life."


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Consumer Group: Coconut Waters Fall Short on Electrolyte Claims
A review of the electrolyte content of the three leading coconut water brands, ZICO, O.N.E., and Vita Coco by the consumer group ConsumerLab.com found that samples of both Vita Coco and O.N.E. fell short with regard to two key hydrating elements on their nutrition panel.
Coconut water has gained in popularity because of its natural hydrating functionality as well as its lighter taste profile and clever marketing; the group began to examine the brands because of its growth and functional claims, according to ConsumerLab.com's president, Dr. Tod Cooperman, who has also examined products like 5-Hour Energy in the past.
The use of coconut water as a sports drink like Gatorade or Powerade has become increasingly important in recent months. While all three brands have had healthy auras, initially ZICO was most closely focused on the athletic arena. Both Vita Coco and O.N.E. have begun marketing more directly to athletes over the summer, however. The electrolyte content is only one element of hydration, of course, but it has become a key marketing component for all three brands.
"Because they are mostly water, all coconut waters can provide hydration, but those that provide more sodium, at least 110 mg of sodium per cup, will be the best choice for replenishing electrolytes," says Dr. Cooperman.
Of the three, only ZICO came matched its stated content for key electrolytes sodium (160 mg), potassium (569 mg), and magnesium (35 mg), as well as sugar (12 g). ConsumerLab.com tested ZICO's bottled variant, which is made from concentrate, and also is approximately 20 percent larger.
Both O.N.E. and Vita Coco fell short on their nutritional information when it came to sodium and magnesium, according to ConsumerLab.com, with one of the companies showing that contained only 18 percent of its claimed amount of sodium. Both O.N.E. and Vita Coco hit their claimed amounts for potassium and sugar.
For his part, ZICO founder Mark Rampolla said that one of his company's key concerns has been locating suppliers that can meet his company's specifications.
"We've worked very hard with our suppliers to make sure our bottled Zico can maintain great and consistent taste and nutritional profiles," he said.
Vita Coco spokesman Arthur Gallego told Health.com that the difference between the label claims and the tested results may have had to do with consistency issues in coconut batches, as the company sources its products in both Brazil and Southeast Asia. He also told the network that the results weren't typical of Vita Coco's average nutritional content.
But consistency has become an issue for the companies, particularly given the battle for supply that has accompanied the category's growth. All three brands tested have been forced to add coconuts from Thailand, Indonesia, and other countries to replace or supplement their supply of Brazilian coconuts.
"The product is produced by PepsiCo in Brazil under very strict quality control," said O.N.E. founder Rodrigo Veloso. PepsiCo is a majority owner of O.N.E. and also owns Amococo, the world's largest coconut water company.
Rampolla said that his company also makes a point of declaring its nutritional information on the low end of the scale to meet testing requirements.
"We've been conservative about what we claim," Rampolla said.


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