Chandar Pattabhiram is the vice president of product marketing at Cast Iron Systems, a provider of integration appliances. In this role, he is responsible for strategy, messaging, pricing, field and channel enablement. Previously, in a senior marketing role at Jamcracker, he managed the integration and provisioning product lines. Chandar also was a manager of the electronics & high tech group at Andersen Consulting (Accenture). He holds a Master’s in business management from the University of Texas and a Bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from PSG College of Technology.
Integration professionals have realized that point-to-point integration
dramatically increases the complexity of building and maintaining corporate
business processes. One manifestation of this is the increasing popularity of
Service Oriented Architectures. To achieve maximum benefit from SOAs, it's
important to carefully consider architecture and design principles before
picking technology and working on practical examples.
In a properly factored design, integration appliances can greatly reduce cost
while simplifying implementation and ongoing maintenance. Appliances can also
help insulate companies from the inevitable changes common to any integration
system by minimizing supporting infrastructure.
Barriers to Integration Success & the Original SOA
In the mid-90s, commercial integration packages were used to build large
cross-system business processes for the first... (more)
Chandar Pattabhiram is the vice president of product marketing at Cast Iron Systems, a provider of integration appliances. In this role, he is responsible for strategy, messaging, pricing, field and channel enablement. Previously, in a senior marketing role at Jamcracker, he managed the integration and provisioning product lines. Chandar also was a manager of the electronics & high tech group at Andersen Consulting (Accenture). He holds a Master’s in business management from the University of Texas and a Bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from PSG College of Technology.
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