Sumeet Vij

February 10, 2009

Sumeet is a Senior SOA Architect at SAIC USA, a FORTUNE 500 company, where he leads the SOA Adoption Roadmap, Strategy and Implementation for a large DoD client. Sumeet has been on the forefront of SOA and its related technologies. At webMethods (now Software AG), he was involved from the very early stage with the implementation of XML-RPC (US Patent: 7028312, circa 1999), the precursor to current day SOAP. During his tenure at webMethods he has acted as the lead engineer and architect for numerous SOA infrastructure products, starting from webMethods Integration Server, B2B to Enterprise Application Integration, SOAP stack and WS-* standard implementations, high performance Policy Enforcement Points and SOA Governance products. These Enterprise level SOA software products are currently deployed at thousands of customer sites.
Alion Science and Technology
Assistant Vice President/ Chief Engineer
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Articles by: Sumeet Vij

We Might Clear the Fog Around SOA, but its Future is Still Cloudy

We Might Clear the Fog Around SOA, but its Future is Still Cloudy

Author(s):

Sumeet Vij
Assistant Vice President/ Chief Engineer, Alion Science and Technology

Despite the widespread hype and reams of articles in technical and business journals alike, one question that still causes consternation amongst customers and practitioners alike is, “What is Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)”? If compiled, the answers to this question would fill copious volumes, but a consensus on an answer would be elusive. The reason the answer to this question doesn’t fit into the mold of a precise technical definition is due to the fact that SOA is mostly a business concept, hence it has to be defined in a business context.

Modeling a Net-Centric Department of Defense (DoD) Enterprise using BPMN 2.0

Modeling a Net-Centric Department of Defense (DoD) Enterprise using BPMN 2.0

Author(s):

Sumeet Vij
Assistant Vice President/ Chief Engineer, Alion Science and Technology

If a picture is a worth a thousand words, a standardized model is definitely worth multiple pages of a requirement specification. Business and IT have long used tabular descriptions, flowcharts and other means to capture and describe how their business processes are run, but if a modeling format has to go beyond being just a sketch, it requires a standardized, non-proprietary notation which can be uniformly understood by all.

Being Intelligent with SOA: Using SOA to Lay the Foundation of your Business Intelligence (BI) Initiatives

Being Intelligent with SOA: Using SOA to Lay the Foundation of your Business Intelligence (BI) Initiatives

Author(s):

Sumeet Vij
Assistant Vice President/ Chief Engineer, Alion Science and Technology

SOA purists might scoff at using SOA for integration [1], but for many enterprises, Service Oriented Integration (SOI) remains one of the prime motivations for embarking on the SOA journey. Agreed SOI by itself doesn’t achieve the avowed goals of agility or elimination of redundant IT infrastructure, but it helps the enterprise address real concerns, now. The SOA Manifesto [2] states that Business value is of higher priority over technical strategy; hence easier integration with SOA is a valid goal of a SOA initiative.

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