Architect's Corner!

Here, are the Finalists for the iCMG Architecture Excellence in Technical categories.
The “Technical Categories” consist of excellence in five key areas such as Future IT (Web 2.0, Cloud and other emerging technologies), SOA Vision for Enterprise Services, IS Security Architecture, IT Service Management and Open Source Technologies.



We also invite the readers to participate in “Reader’s choice” poll. This poll is aimed at creating the awareness and interest among the readers. Readers can cast their votes for the project that they feel deserves recognition for its excellence. We understand that the brief description is not sufficient for the reader’s to arrive at a conclusive judgment. Also, I would like to re-iterate that this poll won’t influence the final results arrived by the jury.


1.Future IT (Web 2.0, Cloud and other emerging technologies)
Winner has to establish the IT work done is innovative, path breaking or could bring disruptive change in the biz ecosystem. The finalists in this category are:

	Company	Initiative	Reader’s choice
	Joint between SWOne, IBM and BT	Fibre Optic WAN for Somerset Council	Vote
	Ermenegildo Zegna Group	Virtual try on
	Ministry of Education, Singapore	iCONnect- Email and collaboration services for schools
	MTS	BSS Stack on the cloud

2.SOA Vision for Enterprise Services
This award focuses on how organizations have used the SOA principles in achieving business value. It’s important to note that the winning entry must demonstrate the realized value rather than perceived value related to customer satisfaction, agility in business changes or transformation etc. The finalists in this category are:

	Company	Initiative	Reader’s choice
	The Hartford	Straight Through Submission Architecture Implementation	Vote
	Intel Corporation	SOA Enterprise Service Bus Implementation
	Game Group plc	Architecture driven SOA
	SBI General Insurance	Comprehensive Enterprise General Insurance IT Solution

3.IS Security Architecture
IT Security is important to ensure peace of mind for both the enterprises as well as its customers. Nominations were invited from the enterprises who have successfully implemented IT Security Architecture within their organization. The finalists in this category are:

	Company	Initiative	Reader’s choice
	Protestant Church in the Netherlands	LRP Project for member registration, fund raising and local church work	Vote
	Eveready Industries India Limited	IT Infrastructure Migration

4.IT Service Management
IT systems are becoming critical to enterprise success as well as survival. This award is meant for organization who have successfully implemented IT service management practices for customer and business profitability or cost savings etc. The finalists in this category are:

	Company	Initiative	Reader’s choice
	Banco Supervielle	ITIL implementation	Vote
	Tesco Hindustan Service Center	Architecture Driven, IT Service Management, Transformation and Convergence Management

5.Open Source Technologies
This award is meant for the organizations who have successfully utilized architecture principles in deploying solutions using open source technologies for delivering sustained value. The finalists in this category are:

	Company	Initiative	Reader’s choice
	Realmdigital	Exclus1ves E-Commerce Store	Vote
	L&T Infotech Ltd	Cloud Computing implementation (CloudX)