We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.
CIOs have to be able to lay out a clear path in concert with the business leader - I used to make the business guy responsible for the apps and force them to answer the question of why they feel they need non-standard apps when they know that's how the costs skyrocket.
It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.
There has been an ebb and flow in enterprise IT of centralized versus distributed.
The IP is a completely different side of the IT, and that is what we want Vijayawada for.
The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump.
