Sohrab Kakalia

Sohrab Kakalia is Vice President & Head of Technology Consulting at Infosys Technologies. He has 20 years of experience in the IT industry with expertise in helping 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.

Synopsis

Service Oriented Architecture and the Global Delivery Model

Sohrab will discuss the interplay of SOA and GDM and the underlying similarities in both philosophies.

The GDM (Global Delivery Model) is the engine of today's economy. It is also a natural shift to a more distributed, process-centric, ubiquitous, cross-cultural, and heterogeneous paradigm for software development. The same principles apply to SOA. GDM fulfils the same operational requirements - distributed, process-centric (BPM), cross-cultural (cross-platform), and heterogeneous (interoperable). The GDM model relies on outsourcing development, operational support, and even customer services to locations where the cost of development is lower.