Handbook of Research on Architectural Trends in Service-Driven Computing

Raja Ramanathan is a Technology Advisor, Senior IT Architect, and SOA SME with over 25 years of experience in the computing industry, providing technology consulting services to Fortune 500 enterprises in the USA. Raja specializes in business and technical architecture, developing architecture vision, enterprise integration solution architecture, middleware configuration, software design and development, strategic planning, and governance consulting for mission critical projects. His technical expertise is in Java, SOA, BPM, and tools and technologies primarily from IBM and Oracle. Raja’s enterprise clients span business domains in oil and gas exploration and pipelines; energy generation, retail and wholesale; energy distribution and trading; engineering services, financial services, and software product development. Raja is an author and editor of the reference book Service-Driven Approaches to Architecture and Enterprise Integration that was published by IGI Global in 2013. His research interests are in the areas of service-driven computing, cloud computing, enterprise integration, and autonomic computing. Raja has a M.E.E in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware, USA. Kirtana Raja is a Market Development Advisor at IBM, USA, supporting the Business Analytics and Content Management software divisions. Previously, Kirtana was a Solutions Architect for IBM, creating novel predictive analytics and Big Data use cases for clients in the media and entertainment industry. Kirtana has an S.B in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; S.B in Management Science from MIT Sloan; and an MBA from Cornell University, USA. She was writer and news editor for MIT’s newspaper The Tech . Kirtana co-edited the reference book titled Service-driven Approaches to Architecture and Enterprise Integration that was published by IGI Global in 2013. Kirtana has recently filed three patents in the areas of interactive advertising and media content systems.