EA - Enterprise Architecture or Extreme Aggravation

Andrew Manning is a Principal Architect with Infosys Technologies. He has over 20 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Information Management and Knowledge Management domains, working both as an internal Enterprise Architecture consultant (in blue chip organizations) and an external consultant. His career includes extensive e-business experience including portals, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and collaboration.

Sohel Aziz is an AVP and Head - Technology Consulting, EMEA, Infosys Technologies. He has extensive experience in business-technology alignment, technology strategy advisory, technology business case development, and technology program management and analysis. He has lead and facilitated the development and execution of technology-enabled business transformation strategies using offshore delivery models. Sohel's current focus areas are enterprise architecture and effective governance models for business-IT alignment. He is working to formalize the impact of Web 2.0 technologies on the way we think about enterprise architecture.

Sohrab Kakalia is a Vice President & Head of Technology Consulting at Infosys Technologies. He has 20 years of experience in the IT industry, and has helped several leading corporations transform, design and integrate their software systems to achieve efficient and competitive operations. He has led many large, end-to-end multi-technology projects that cover the hardware, OS, application software, network and security domains.

Thomas Obitz is a Principal Architect with Infosys Technologies. He has more than 16 years of experience in software development and vast experience in conceptualizing and designing large-scale distributed systems, especially in investment banking and capital markets. He has been working with enterprise architecture groups reviewing application landscapes and adopting them for improved support of corporate processes and value propositions.