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SUMMARY:Model Driven Development in the Cloud - Gautam Shroff\, VP R&amp\;
 D\, TCS Innovation Lab\, Delh
DTSTART:20100504T133000Z
DTEND:20100504T143000Z
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CONTACT:Tom Playford
DESCRIPTION:Business agility as a term is often used to describe speed and
  efficiency\, and is usually the driver for most investment in new IT deve
 lopment. Over the years enterprises have been able to make significant imp
 rovements in streamlining business operations and leveraging information s
 ystems to do so. This has now become almost ‘business as usual’ for IT
 \, i.e. its very purpose has been to deliver business efficiency.  \n\nHow
 ever\, over the past decade it is increasingly perceived that IT is just a
 s often the bottleneck as well. Any business change today requires IT appl
 ications to be enhanced\, which often takes time and holds up business cha
 nges. In today’s economic climate\, cost is just as important also: Why 
 do IT systems cost so much? Agile development methods have been proposed a
 nd explored as a possible way out of this trap. But is process change all 
 that is needed\, or is a technology revolution required as well? \n\nThe t
 erm ‘Wed 2.0’ has been used to describe the transformation of the inte
 rnet from a world of publishers and readers to one of collaborators where 
 everyone is a creator of content. During this time we have also seen the s
 uccess of some software as a service (SaaS) applications\, such as Salesfo
 rce.com\, to the extent that application development is itself available a
 s a hosted service\, blurring the line between users and developers\, a tr
 end we call Dev 2.0. \n\nAs an example we describe TCS’ InstantApps plat
 form\, is a Dev 2.0 software development platform that combines model base
 d architecture with software as a service and delivers it within the enter
 prise data centre to bring Dev 2.0 from the public internet into corporate
  IT. \n\nEven more recently\, ‘cloud computing’ has come to describe i
 nfrastructure as an internet service\, such as Amazon’s EC2\, Google’s
  App Engine\, and Microsoft’s Azure. The future will see a convergence o
 f hosted Dev 2.0 platforms and cloud computing.  What could the future ent
 erprise IT environment look like\, when it is a mix of traditional systems
 \, internet services as well as ‘behind the firewall’ Dev 2.0 platform
 s running in internal enterprise clouds?\n\nWe close by outlining some cha
 llenges for software engineering practice\, education and research in the 
 context of these technology trends.\n\nAbout the Speaker:\n\nDr. Shroff he
 ads TCS' Innovation Lab in Delhi\, which conducts applied research in soft
 ware architecture\, natural language processing\, multimedia and graphics.
  Additionally he is responsible for TCS' Co-Innovation Network\, which wor
 ks with emerging technology companies to create and take to market solutio
 ns that have disruptive innovation potential. As a member of TCS' Corporat
 e Technology Board\, he is also involved in the process of recommending di
 rections to existing R&D efforts\, spawning new R&D efforts\, sponsoring e
 xternal research\, and proliferating the resulting technology and intellec
 tual property across TCS' businesses.\n
LOCATION:Room FW11\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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