Kenneth Kunin, SunGard to speak about "Creating a New Development Culture Leveraging Lessons from the Open Source Community"
PRESS RELEASE: Santa Clara, CA May 17, 2006 - Let's face it, bringing separate successful companies under the umbrella of a conglomerate is challenging in the best of times. Now add the pressure of integrating disparate business applications, technology platforms and development teams from multiple acquisitions with a customer business environment that is rapidly consolidating, and you can begin to understand the issues Kenneth Kunin faces at SunGard.
SunGard is a $4B organization that serves the top 50 financial institutions in the world, with hundreds of legacy applications ingrained in their daily operations. Failure is not an option. So how could SunGard continue to respect the innovation, results, and culture of its entrepreneurial business units while consolidating touch points and operations with their customers?
Kenneth Kunin, VP of Product Management for SunGard's Common Services Architecture, looked to the lessons of community and technical excellence in the Internet-based Open Source Community for insight. "We noticed the way the open source community leveraged geographically dispersed talent and discovered a model that we could adopt across SunGard's decentralized organization. We created a Service Oriented Architecture with a common core repository that is shared and contributed to by independent business units."
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