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Professor
Sadagopan has wide research interests.
Starting with algorithms, operations research, multi criteria
optimization and database theory in early eighties he moved on to MIS,
enterprise computing and new media in early nineties. With his
extensive interaction with the growing IT industry and Governments at
many levels his interests have grown to address the broader policy
issues as well. He is invited to contribute to Encyclopaedia on
Information Systems on ERP as well as Britannica Year Book on IT in
India.
His research work has appeared in several international journals
including IEEE Transactions, European J of Operational Research, J
of Optimization Theory & Applications, Naval Research Logistics,
Simulation, Decision Support Systems and ACM Ubiquity
etc. He is a referee for several journals and serves on the
editorial boards of many journals.
Professor Sadagopan’s early papers are seminal ones in the
areas of combinatorics, stochastic processes, simulation,
multi-criteria optimization and decision support; in the eighties his
research interests moved to databases, information systems, modelling
and new media. Much of his research in the nineties is devoted to
enterprise systems (ERP, SCM, CRM, EAI), mission-critical software, IT
education, global IT industry, IT policy and innovative IT
applications across ALL segments of human endeavour (reflected in his
wide-ranging consulting engagements). His thoughts are often reflected
in his articles in Times of India
(that deal with career advice to youngsters seeking IT education,
insight into Indian IT companies that focus on software services,
software products, high technology, contemporary concerns including IT
slowdown, WTC disaster, new products, new policies, upheavals in
corporate sector such as major mergers etc); Financial Express
(hot technology. hot products and hot development in the IT industry)
and CIO Magazine (issues that concern CIO). He also maintains a
FAQ on ERP in
India .He has also interest in using digital technology to
preserve Indian culture (reflected in the first “all digital” edition
of Rigveda and other Vedic literature – the main source of Indian
philosophy and culture).
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