WITS'05 Keynote: Architecture of Business

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Dr. Kumar Bhaskaran
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
1101 Kitchawan Road, Route 134, Yorktown Heights , NY 10598

Abstract

Businesses are investing in transformation and growth with the expectation of significant performance outcomes. Analyses of the business performance of a number of companies reveal that companies with the ability to continually innovate and improve demonstrably outperform their industry peers. In this talk we introduce the architecture of business where the business innovation is client-driven and unleashed by formally integrated multi-level models that align client’s business and IT objectives to realize service-oriented software solutions. We also overview an implementation of this architecture in model-driven business transformation tools and highlight the service-oriented computing challenges based on actual business transformation problems.

Biography

Dr. Kumar Bhaskaran is a senior manager at IBM T.J Watson Research Center. He leads research in model-driven approaches to business integration and business performance management. His areas of expertise and interest include models, methods, tools and architectures applied to business innovation, transformation, and optimization.