Arun Candadai is cofounder and CTO of GridScope (www.gridscope.com), and is responsible for the company's technology strategy and product development. Prior to founding GridScope, he was lead architect at BEA Systems where he pioneered the use of Web services and SOA for its enterprise infrastructure. Prior to BEA, he held senior engineering management roles at companies including Asera, Covad, and Lockheed Martin. He holds three software patents and has helped develop key Web services standards.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has emerged as a key strategy for IT and
line-of-business executives to jointly enhance business performance and
agility in today's intense corporate climate. Using the SOA methodology,
business applications are built as an assembly of loosely coupled pieces of
business functionality, commonly referred to as services. These services are
published, consumed, and combined with other applications over a shared
services network, which is often highly distributed within and across
enterprise boundaries.
Service-oriented development of distributed applications is increasingly
common as businesses seek to build and reuse services and service-based
processes in new ways to improve performance and gain competitive advantage.
Gartner Group has... (more)
Today's IT environments are increasingly characterized by heterogeneous and
complex applications, tight schedules, budgetary constraints, and an
ever-changing landscape of business requirements.
Few businesses have been agile enough to enhance their existing
infrastructures to meet and overcome these challenges in an effective manner.
Even so, to deal with a continuous flow of highly comp... (more)
Arun Candadai is cofounder and CTO of GridScope (www.gridscope.com), and is responsible for the company's technology strategy and product development. Prior to founding GridScope, he was lead architect at BEA Systems where he pioneered the use of Web services and SOA for its enterprise infrastructure. Prior to BEA, he held senior engineering management roles at companies including Asera, Covad, and Lockheed Martin. He holds three software patents and has helped develop key Web services standards.
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