Possessing over 22 years of active ICT experience, mainly in the Telecommunications Industry Sector, but also in other verticals, Philip Stander has a deep-routed passion for the ICT Industry and, in particular, to create local innovation in South Africa. Philip continues to be actively involved in ICT Technology Strategy and Architectural Design of large-scale systems, but also possesses 13 years of business management experience at the Executive Level. Philip was a co-founder of globetom in 2002 and is also a major shareholder in the business.
Philip holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Pretoria and an MS in Chemistry obtained Cum Laude in 1989 and specialized in Computer Models for the kinetics of High Temperature chemical reactions. Philip is the Managing Director of globetom (www.globetom.co.za), a company specializing in Software Engineering and an avid adopter of SOA, SaaS and Cloud Computing.
Service Oriented Architecture was hailed as the next major leap ahead in the
ICT industry and was predicted by many to be as big a leap forward as that
achieved with Object-Oriented software design patterns. For example, in 2006,
Joseph Bih introduced SOA in a research article as an innovative new way to
conduct e-business[1]. While much published and promoted in the marketplace,
SOA adoption has been the subject of significant controversy, not least of
which is the publication of a landmark article by now Gartner Fellow Anne
Thomas Manes in January 2009 in which SOA was declared "dead". This
publication examines the health of SOA as a relevant paradigm in the ICT
industry three years after some market opinion leaders declared SOA dead.
Anne Thomas Manes from The Burton Group (now part of Gartner and with Ms
Manes a Gartner Fellow) published a landmark article as lon... (more)
Possessing over 22 years of active ICT experience, mainly in the Telecommunications Industry Sector, but also in other verticals, Philip Stander has a deep-routed passion for the ICT Industry and, in particular, to create local innovation in South Africa. Philip continues to be actively involved in ICT Technology Strategy and Architectural Design of large-scale systems, but also possesses 13 years of business management experience at the Executive Level. Philip was a co-founder of globetom in 2002 and is also a major shareholder in the business. 
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