About the Authors

Nitin Sawant is managing director, technology, and is the practice lead for technology architecture for BPM, SOA, and cloud at Accenture India. He is an Accenture certified master technology architect (CMTA), leading various initiatives in the emerging technologies of cloud and big data. Nitin has over 17 years of technology experience in developing, designing, and architecting complex enterprise-scale systems based on Java, JEE, SOA, and BPM technologies. He received his master’s degree in technology in software engineering from the Institute of System Science, National University of Singapore. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from Bombay University. He is a certified CISSP, CEH, and IBM-certified SOA solutions architect. Nitin has filed three patents in the SOA-BPM space and is currently pursuing his PHD in BPM security from BITS Pilani, India.

Himanshu Shah is an Accenture senior technology architect with 14 years of IT experience and currently leads the Big Data (Hadoop) Capability in Accenture India Delivery Centre. Himanshu has acted as an enterprise architect for projects involving cloud computing, operations architecture and big data. Himanshu has worked extensively in custom development of JEE based architecture for multiple clients in various Industries including telecom, retail and the insurance domain. Himanshu also has expertise in ITIL operations architecture. Himanshu has been part of Java, Platform Cloud, and SOA Centre of Excellences within Accenture.