Thomas Vogel
Head of Corporate Application Infrastructure and Architecture
Since 1995 Thomas is working with Novartis in Switzerland in various roles. First, he was responsible for the build up of the global wide area network, Head of Infrastructure and Operations for a Novartis division and Head of E-business IT. Today, he is Head of Corporate Application Infrastructure and Architecture.
Originally, he started his career as a research scientist with Alcatel Research, Paris.
Prior to this, Thomas studied business administration and computer science in Germany and the United States. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Cambridge.
Design for Scalability - Lessons Learned
Wednesday, November 8th, 11.00
Category: Intermediate
Track: Technology
Case: Novartis
5 years ago, Novartis decided to create a group-wide, top down Internet and Portal architecture. Until today, this architecture has had to support well over a 1000 projects. At the same time, staffing levels and operating costs stayed almost flat.
This presentation shows how scaleable architectures can be designed - including not only the technical (tool) architecture, but also the governance and organisational aspects that are critical for scalability.
Included in this talk is also a review of lessons learned, some of which can be useful for many enterprise wide projects beyond portals.
This talk concludes with some of the current open issues. Hopefully, the participants will be able to help out!
Joint session with case presented by Travis Wissink from Technology Leadership Consulting.
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