Cyril Brigant is an application architect specialized in BPM modeling and SOA Architecture. He has been involved in various workflow projects and SOA initiatives for the last 10 years in various Enterprise environments. At the European Commission, DG RTD, he was in charge of modeling the Enterprise architecture and SOA governance. He has recently joined the CMA CGM Group to bring his expertise for an ambitious project to rebuild the complete information system based on the top-down approach.

Haitham A. El-Ghareeb is an Associate Professor at the Information Systems Department, Faculty of Computers and Information Sciences, Mansoura University, Egypt. He is a member of many distinguished computer organizations, reviewer for different highly recognized academic journals, contributor to open source projects, and the author of different books.

Haitham is interested in e-learning, Enterprise architecture, information architecture, and software architecture, especially in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Management Systems (BPMS), Information Storage and Management, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Big Data, and in collaboration with Information Systems and e-learning organizations and researchers.

Haitham holds a Master of Science degree (in 2008) from the same faculty that he is currently working for. His thesis was titled Evaluation of Service Oriented Architecture in e-Learning. This thesis was highly recognized and has been published as an international book under the same title (ISBN-13: 978-3-83835-538-2). He holds a PhD degree (in 2012) from the same faculty. His PhD dissertation was titled Optimizing Service Oriented Architecture to Support e-Learning with Adaptive and Intelligent Features, which was highly recognized and has been published as an international book under the title, Optimizing Service Oriented Architecture to Support e-Learning, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, (ISBN-13: 978-3-84731-187-4).

Haitham is the author of the book, Enterprise Integration Opportunities and Challenges, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, (ISBN-13: 978-3-65937-179-0). For an updated list of Haitham's activities and research articles, please consider the following websites:

Jaideep Ganguli has more than 20 years of experience in developing software solutions for several domains, including financial services, e-government, criminal justice, and wireless application services. Over the last 10 years, he has delivered several Enterprise-scale solutions based on WebLogic, JEE, Oracle BPM, SOA Suite, ADF, and WebCenter. He is a Certified Implementation Specialist with Oracle WebCenter Portal 11g and Oracle BPM 11g.

Currently, Jaideep is one of the cofounders and partners of Fusion Applied (www.fusionapplied.com). Fusion Applied offers top-notch Oracle Fusion Middleware-focused consulting and training.

Jaideep holds an MBA degree from Johns Hopkins University and a BS in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University, India.

He can be contacted at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jaideepganguli/, or you can e-mail him at <[email protected]>.

Ramakrishna Kandula has an experience of 10 years in the IT sector and 7 years with Fusion Middleware technologies. He has worked on different projects in SOA and BPM Suites with various clients.

He completed his graduation with a Bachelor's of Technology degree in Electronics and Communication, in 2003.

He has received many accolades and awards in his career from client and internal organization recognition events for key implementations and innovative approach design.

He has designed and implemented many B2B and EAI architectures for different business implementations, which have also become role model architectures for many other implementations.

He has technically reviewed Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook, Packt Publishing.

You can e-mail him at <[email protected]>.

Max Pellizzaro, with over 15 years of working experience, has been working as a software/IT consultant in complex projects within different industries: automotive, telecommunication, and entertainment and media. Within the projects he has been involved with, he has developed experience throughout all the phases of a project's life cycle: collecting user requirements, designing software solutions, leading software development, and designing monitor tools for the on-going production environment. In his last organization, Max was the leading architect of Center of Excellence of Oracle Technology. His main activity was to understand clients' needs to help him drive the design and prototype of Oracle Solutions.

Max loves technologies; even in his day-to-day jobs, he mainly deals with Oracle technology. His passion has brought him to learn other technologies such as mobile development, game development, and 3D development.

Max has contributed to the review of other books on XML technology and open source frameworks.

Surendra Pepakayala is a seasoned technology professional and entrepreneur with over 16 years of experience in the US and in India. He has a broad experience in building enterprise software products for both startups and multinational companies.

After 11 years in the corporate industry, Surendra founded an enterprise software product company based in India. He subsequently sold the company and started Cloud computing, Big Data, and Data Science Consulting practice.

Surendra has reviewed drafts, recommended changes, and formulated questions for various IT certification literature/tests, such as CGEIT, CRISC, MSP, and TOGAF.