Foreword

S. Gopalakrishnan Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Infosys Technologies Limited Kris is on the Global Thinkers 50 along with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

In the past, IT was limited to Business back office automation, Scientific Research computation, Personal productivity. With the advent of World Wide Web, IT is connecting Business and People.

And in the future, software is going to be everywhere i.e. Medical equipment, Electric grids, Home Appliances, Vehicles etc. IT will be used for connecting Things.

Today most of the large corporates have IT architectures which are complex, inefficient and expensive to manage. IT criticality and complexity will continue to increase.

For building tomorrow’s enterprise, we at Infosys have identified seven key areas that are rapidly increasing in influence, and present great scope for IT-led innovations – Digital Consumers, Emerging economies, Sustainable Tomorrow, Smarter organizations, New commerce, Pervasive computing, Healthcare economy.

IT Architecture would be the key enabler to achieve these. And it is important to have prescriptive reference architectures, frameworks and methodologies to address these.

This collection of Next Generation IT architecture are some of the prescriptive enablers for building tomorrow’s enterprise.

This compendium is created by Infosys Connect Architecture team. Connect Architecture is an Architect 2 Architect community platform and it also extends to our Client and Partner architects.