The Center for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation (CETI) enables effective Information Technology (IT) use and evolution both 1) within IT organizations that have complex internal systems and processes and 2) within service-oriented organizations with very flexible IT support needs. CETI is a membership-driven industry-university center proposed as an affiliate of the existing multi-institutional Center for Experimental Research and Computer Science (CERCS) at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. CETI will strengthen the existing IUCRCERCS area in Enterprise Systems with its complementary research and practice conducted between industry, departments and centers, local and national organizations, as well as CERCS. The objective is to provide enterprise architecture frameworks that positively impact industry in areas such as Health Care, Finance, Insurance, Food and Agriculture, local and state Government, as well as International and Homeland Security. For more information, see http://www.cet.cse.ohio-state.edu.
Dr. Rajiv Ramnath is the Director of Practice of the Collaborative for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation (CETI) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at The Ohio State University (OSU). He was formerly a Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Concentus Technology Corp. a workflow company in Columbus, Ohio. He was also concurrently involved in government-funded R&D - most notably the National Information Infrastructure Integration Protocols (NIIIP) project funded out of Vice President Gore's ATP initiative.
Dr. Ramnath is engaged (through CETI) in industry-facing programs of applied R&D, education, technology transfer and practice. Dr. Ramnath's expertise and research interests range from wireless sensor network and pervasive computing applications in the enterprise, to the alignment of business strategy and processes with information technology, enterprise architecture, technology management and integration and software engineering, e-Government, collaborative environments, configurable enterprise systems, workflow, and work-management systems. He teaches graduate and under-graduate research, technology strategy and software engineering courses at the Ohio State University, and is involved in industry-relevant and inter-disciplinary curriculum development and enhancement initiatives of the Computer Science and Engineering Department. Dr. Ramnath received his doctorate and masters' degrees from The Ohio State University (1988 and 1983 respectively) and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi (1981).
Dr. Jay Ramanathan (Ph.D. from Rice University in 1977) has research and teaching interests in analytic and management techniques for Adaptive Complex Enterprise systems. As the Director of Research at the Center for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation within the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department at The Ohio State University she engages with industries to apply the latest techniques for the successful use of Information Technologies at the enterprise level. Based on experience, with over a hundred companies, she has developed service-oriented and autonomic computing architecture patterns that are been successfully applied to develop strategic and innovative solutions to business goals. Jay's twenty-five years of technology research, development, and commercialization experience had been focused on deploying workflow management and enterprise integration solutions for early adopters. Jay has also been the program manager for DARPA and industry funded programs for the integration of She has also received awards such as the Tibbet's award for creating and licensing technology. She has has written numerous papers in the field and supervised eighteen masters and doctoral students while a tenured faculty at The Ohio State University. jayram@cse.ohio-state.edu