Melvin Greer, senior research engineer of service-oriented architecture and cloud computing chief architect at Lockheed-Martin Corporation, is the subject of a fairly intensive Q&A by GCN's Rutrell Yasin.
Enterprise architecture has been mandated at the federal level for some time now -- the challenge is applying EA principles to drive new innovation within government, he says.
Lockheed-Martin has been taking the initiative to apply EA to drive SOA and cloud computing in its own, as well as partner organizations, Greer points out:
"What we are encouraging and experiencing is that EA is a competitive advantage and that it is evolving into an integrated part of the business. We are focusing the enterprise architecture for advanced innovation, but we can optimize advanced capabilities across an entire set of business processes and minimize waste associated with deployment of IT resources."
With this in mind, enterprise architects are in a better position to ensure that whatever services that are focused from an innovation capability -- SOA, cloud, BPM, mobile or wireless, they all are sustainable and optimized as a business process."
Greer is connecting all the dots through a well-thought-out approach to designing services that best meet the fast-changing needs of the business.
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