Niranjan Iyengar

Agile IT systems are systems that are malleable enough to address business uncertainties. Such systems can effectively respond to internal and external stimuli in a very short period of time. Flexible IT systems imply that the IT architecture underlying them is itself flexible and lends itself to incorporating changes in a dynamic fashion. Architectural approaches such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) are transforming the way IT systems are designed by bringing in a high degree of reuse and loose coupling of applications. IT architectures include the technology, strategies, plans, and principles that guide an organization's new technology investments as well as manage the existing technology investments. The objective behind having a good IT architecture is so an ... (more)