Impact of recession on architecture discipline...is it ready to move from early adopter to main stream

1. Growing demand
/decline
of
Architects in
Recessionary Economy
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2. The key challenges facing your
enterprise today?
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Creating Innovations
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Managing inherent complexity in IT itself 12
Business - IT alignment
32
Reducing Costs 15
Managing Change 15
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3. Impact of recession on ENTERPRISES
Credit Suisse to go for smaller vendors
CREDIT SUISSE, which currently outsources its software application maintenance and development projects
to Wipro and Cognizant, will now work with almost eight smaller, niche firms such as Headstrong.
Switzerland’s biggest bank seeks to mitigate risks associated with its two large suppliers.
While existing vendors including Wipro and Cognizant will continue to deliver application development and
maintenance projects, new work in specific domains like retail and private banking will be executed by a new
set of smaller suppliers.
The bank is also expected to review and outsource an infrastructure outsourcing contract, currently with HP,
by the middle of this year, Divyesh Vithlani, MD and chief information officer of Credit Suisse Asia Pacific told
ET in an interview on Thursday. He declined to name the new suppliers.
“As part of our second phase of outsourcing, we plan to outsource almost 40% of niche projects to around 6-8
smaller vendors,” he said. Some of the niche projects would include delivering solutions based on the banking
software T24 offered by Temenos, apart from other specific applications.
“We want redundancy and do not want to concentrate our risks,” he added. Headstrong, which recently
acquired mortgage data processing firm Lydian Data Services, specialises in the financial services industry.
Meanwhile, the bank is closely evaluating the developments at Satyam Computer Services. “We do have a
very significant exposure to Satyam, but are monitoring the situation.” With over 1,000 IT professionals from
suppliers such as Wipro and Cognizant doing application maintenance work for the bank, Credit Suisse employs
almost 12,000 engineers globally.
Later this year, Credit Suisse will also seek to award an outsourcing contract for managing servers and
Reversing its desktops. “Expect a decision on this by middle of this yearwe are currently reviewing our current contract with
HP, which is up for renewal,” Mr Vithlani said.
rapid expansion Initiatives such as risk mitigation and working with niche suppliers is a part of Credit Suisse’s multi-year IT
into overcapacity transformation, aimed at creating centres of excellence across India, China, US and Singapore.
almost overnight FLASH POINT
•The bank seeks to mitigate risks associated with its two large suppliers Wipro and
Cognizant
•The new work in retail and pvt banking to be executed by a new set of smaller suppliers
•The bank is expected to review and outsource infrastructure out-sourcing contract with
HP
•Credit Suisse to seek to award a contract for managing servers and desktops
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4. Impact of recession on large IT vendors
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5. New opportunities - changing relationship with
IT vendors in new economy
Engagement models in the past
Enterprise IT Services Company
Programmers
EA Team SA Team Testers
Project Managers
Extended role of Services Company
moving from “low cost” IT providers to
enabling IT as a competitive advantage for its
customers
Case I : Architecture Team – SA team part of Case II : Both SA & EA teams shared with outsourced
outsourced vendor vendor
Enterprise IT Services Company
Enterprise IT Services Company
Programmers EA Team Programmers
EA Team SA Team Testers
Testers
Project Managers
Project Managers
SA Team
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Technical Architect
Process Architect
J2EE Architect
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Application Architect
Business Architect
Chief Architect
CRM Architecture
Data architect
Database Architect
Datawarehouse Architect
Delivery Architect
Domain Architect
EAI Architect
Information Architect
Infrastsructure Architect
Integration Architect
IT services organizations:
Intelligence Architect
Architecture roles
IS Architect
IT Architect
Network Architect
Performance Architect
Platform Architect
Process Architect
Security Architect
SOA Architect
Software Architect
The most accepted architecture roles within
Architecture roles
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