Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services, with custodied assets of more than $2.6 trillion, including managed assets of $1.3 trillion as of July 31, 2006. Fidelity offers investment management, retirement planning, brokerage, human resources and benefits outsourcing services to more than 22 million individuals and institutions as well as through 5,500 financial intermediary firms. Headquartered at Boston, Fidelity has more than 44,000 employees located in 23 countries across 4 continents.

Fidelity started its Indian operations in September 2001 at Gurgaon and expanded to Bangalore in November 2003. Fidelity employs over 6,000 employees across IT, Business Processing Operations, Implementation and Business Analytics & Research. Employees deliver world-class applications, solutions, products, and services that provide Fidelity's worldwide businesses a competitive edge.

Telelogic® is a leading global provider of solutions for automating and supporting best practices across the enterprise, from powerful modeling of business processes and enterprise architectures to requirements-driven development of advanced systems and software. Telelogic's solutions enable organizations to align product, systems and software development lifecycles with business objectives and customer needs to dramatically improve quality and predictability, while significantly reducing time-to-market and overall costs. Headquartered in Malmö, Sweden with U.S headquarters in Irvine, California, Telelogic conducts business in more than 40 countries. More than one third of the Fortune Global 500 companies use Telelogic software including marketing-leading aero/defense, automotive, financial services, software/electronic and telecommunications companies and governments worldwide.

More information about Telelogic can be found at http://www.telelogic.com/

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills, and technologies to help clients improve their performance. With more than 152,000 people in 49 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$16.65 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2006.


More information about Accenture can be found at http://www.accenture.com/

Scorpus from Canarys Automations Ltd. is a solution for the software delivery organization to unify and govern ‘software asset’ development and delivery, through changes.

Scorpus products and services leverage your existing architecture, work products, delivery processes, and tools to create a unified and governed framework by coupling the various tools and the work products available in various repositories. Scorpus provides governance capability to capture and use your existing software development processes and tools as governance meta-models that will govern the complete development and release of the software delivery to customer. The governance model in Scorpus is a workflow, which is customized to your organization to enforce the solution articulation through its work products through the change cycles. The governance models in Scorpus provide guidance on the solution development and management context, the activities, and launching of the work products into the tools with usage rules. This helps your organization get complete visibility into the software deliverables, their inter relationship along with their artifacts through the changes in a unified and governed environment.

More information about Scorpus can be found at http://www.scorpus.co.in/

More information about QAI can be found at http://www.qaiindia.com/

The Global Enterprise Architecture Organisation (GEAO) is the premier resource for Enterprise Architecture professionals around the world.

GEAO is a new not-for-profit organisation created by and for professionals who work in the field of Enterprise Architecture.

The fast-paced networked economy, together with the multi-disciplinary approach of Enterprise Architecture, requires professionals in this field to work harder than ever to maintain and improve their skills and knowledge. GEAO is designed to fulfil this requirement by providing professional information, support and resources that help professionals to succeed.

More information about GEAO can be found at http://www.geao.org/

The vision of the Association of Enterprise Architecture (a|EA) is to be the world's foremost organization for promoting scholarship, improving practices, establishing standards, and facilitating dialogue among all stakeholders with an interest in the field of enterprise architecture.

The Association of Enterprise Architecture (a|EA) uses the concept of an enterprise-wide architecture to promote the success of public and private sector organizations on a local, national, regional, and/or global basis.

Subscribe to the Journal of Enterprise Architecture and in the process become a member of the a|EA.


More information about a|EA can be found at http://www.aeajournal.org/

The Institute of Software Architects, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation founded to accelerate the establishment of the profession of software architecture and to provide information and services to software architects and their clients.


More information about WWISA can be found at http://www.wwisa.org/

IASA is the premier association focused on the architecture profession through the advancement of best practices and education while delivering programs and services to IT architects of all levels around the world.

Established in 2002, IASA is an international non-profit business association dedicated to the advancement and sharing of issues related to software architecture in the enterprise, product, education and government sectors.

The association is committed to improving the quality of the IT architecture industry by developing and delivering standards, education programs and developing accreditation programs and services that optimize the development of architecture profession. IASA membership consists of approximately 5,000 members located in over 40 countries.

More information about GEAO can be found at http://www.iasahome.org/

The Data Management Association (DAMA) is a
not-for-profit association of data and information resource management professionals. Its primary objective is to "promote the understanding and practice of managing information and data as key business assets". There are more than 40 DAMA chapters world-wide, with an International Conference being held every year..

The DAMA Bangalore chapter has been very recently founded providing a forum for data industry professionals from private enterprise, all of levels of government and educational institutions to network, exchange ideas and participate in presentations/symposiums.

More information about GEAO can be found at http://www.dama.org/

More information about CSI- Bangalore Capter can be found at http://www.csibc.org/

More information about Bombay Management Association can be found at http://www.bma-india.com/

More information about SPIN Chennai can be found at http://www.spinchennai.org/