Setrag Khoshafian

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Dr. Setrag Khoshafian is Vice President of BPM Technology for Pegasystems, http://www.pega.com, the leader in Business Process Management. Dr. Khoshafian is a recognized BPM pioneer and expert who has done R&D and innovated in a number of domains including Database Management, Object Orientation, and Business Process Management, as well as being a recognized authority in Service Oriented Architectures. He has numerous innovations in the field of BPM and SOA.

Dr. Khoshafian's vision of enterprise software is captured in his recent book Service Oriented Enterprises. This vision combines a service-focused way of doing business with the latest technology for a fresh approach in which each party or participant sees itself as a service provider as well as a service consumer and integrates through the ubiquitous BPM. Service Oriented Enterprises shows how Business and IT can align through BPM and focuses on the cultural service dimension as well as the emerging architecture of service orientation.

Dr. Khoshafian has been a professor and lecturer at many universities around the world. In addition to Service Oriented Enterprises, he is the lead author of Object Oriented Databases, Introduction to Groupware Workflow, and Workgroup Computing, Object Orientation, Multi-Media and Imaging Databases, and A Guide to Developing Client/Server SQL Applications. He has more than 50 journal article publications on topics such as intelligent databases, object oriented technologies, service oriented architectures, and business process management suites. He is a frequent speaker and presenter in international conferences.

Dr. Khoshafian holds a PhD as well as a Master of Science in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin – Madison. He holds a Master of Science in Mathematics from the American University of Beirut.