Based on experience as Architect. Tried to provide some thoughts on what are the important qualities Architect has to develop for emerging Technology complex environment

1. 360 DEGREE ARCHITECT
Prasad Narasimhan

2. OVERVIEW
 Architect today is not an independent person as how a unit is a
part of whole. He need to know how the units are connected
how it stands as an application, how it represents a system, how
the system interacts with various other systems.
 What is the role of data is been captured been captured in
system, how it gets used , represented and translated.
 how the system is performance friendly, scalable , uses the
infrastructure capability, monitoring and how its inter-connected.
 Hence architect to provide good quality system should be able
to understand it has whole and work along with business make it
a best one when hitting the roads

3. ARCHITECT QUALITIES
Architect should have the following qualities to do his job in full
 Technical Leadership
 Continuous learner on technology, infrastructure advancement,
Code quality tools , Accelerators , Monitoring tools.
 Interpret code quality from cohesion, coupling, patterns.
 Understand data model and impact on system , how it could be
represented in generic meta model and how the governance can
be formed.
 Creating framework for reusability based on business purpose and
leverage already developed framework for achieving purpose

4. UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS

5. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ALL THIS

6. TECHNOLOGY SHAPING BUSINESS

7. SOCIAL NETWORKING

8. BI ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE

9. CONNECTING THINGS
PROPER TIMING
VALUE TO BUSINESS AND PEOPLE

10. BUSINESS -> IT

11. COMPONENTS IN WEB

12. SAMPLE INFRASTRUCTURE

13. WHERE?
 IT should be a facilitator for business
 Disruptive IT should bring new lines of business
 Information needed should be at door steps for all major
decisions
 IT should support all the product lines and it should help consumer
to do business in a comfortable way

14. CHALLENGES
 IT has its own way of execution (Strategy, Execution ,…)
 IT may not have integrated system in terms of data , application
..
 IT Solutions may not totally extendible , not plug – play, slow turn
around, every additional solution costing more investment.
 Business Team has their own aggressive targets and deadline
which IT finds difficult to match

15. IS THERE A SOLUTION?
 After a lot of transformation in IT we are marching towards the
solution. This is a long term one which if adapted we would be
there.
 Enterprise Governance (Data , Application, Infrastructure)
aligning to (Enterprise Vision, Mission,…).
 Self Service applications to Business Users.
 Information should be available as Service or API which any
application or end user can access to.

16. HOW TO GET THERE?
 Look at where we stand
 Do a GAP Analysis to reach the vision
 Defined well defined metrics in terms of Governance targeting
mission , vision..
 Try to make the application self configurable by Business Users
and they can tailor the Business rules & data based on their
need.

17. FRAMEWORKS/TOOLS.
 Adoption of TOGAF, Zachman Enterprise framework for defining
the Governance model.
 Troux Kind of tools can be used to collect the Metrics and
validate the Enterprise Performance against standards

18. OFFLINE COMMUNICATION - FUTURE
 Offline Communication will be replace online communication.
The System would connect online for synch up only.
 Security & State mechanism will be the major criteria during the
Online & offline Synch up
 All the devices which data transfer mechanism will work in
seamless way.

19. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
 This presentation has multiple images from various sites taken
only for the purpose of illustrating the concept.
 Would like to thank all.

20. Thanks All
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