the future of business applications
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In few years, the Business Applications in Enterprises will look very different. This quick deck will tell you how COTS solutions would change, how Enterprise Platforms would change, and how the Enterprise Applications Development would change. Let us know what you think!!!TRANSCRIPT
The FUTURE Of Business Applications
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Business Apps - Landscape
Business Applications
Cost Savings
Process Improvements
Process Standardization
Business Innovation
Business Productivity
Content & Collaboration
Transactions Processing
Business Processes
Business Analytics
Business Applications
Business Productivity
Content & Collaboration
Transactions Processing
Business Processes
Business Analytics
Standard Differentiated
Standard Configured Customized Built
Business Productivity
Content & Collaboration
Transactions Processing
Business Processes
Business Analytics
Standard Differentiated
Configured Customized
What happened in COTS Enterprise Apps?
Sold as Packaged Apps, Customized and implemented
over years with Millions of investments!
Configured Customized
Why ERP Turned out Expensive?
Domain Context Geography Context Industry Context
V A R I A T I O N S
Umbrella Point Solutions for all Situations!
Domain Context
Geography Context
Industry Context more to Chew?
Domain Context
Geography Context
Industry Context
Future of COTS Solutions! Multitude of SaaS based
Point Solutions
Domain Context
Geography Context
Industry Context
…Looks so different !
Enterprises also built their own Solutions using Technology Products – Not platforms!
Story of Grounds-Up Solutions
GREEN FIELD
Standard Differentiated
Customized Built
Enterprises also built their own Solutions using Technology Products – Not platforms!
Leverage for the Competitive Advantage!
And they looked like this… Usage
Core Apps
Supporting Apps
• Mission cri-cal • Tracked by CIOs • Enterprise wide usage
Applica-ons
Situational Apps • Non-‐ Mission cri-cal, but important • 200+ Small / medium apps • Approx. 10 to 50 users per app
• Non-‐mission cri-cal, not important • Developed by power end users • Short life-me -‐ weeks, max months
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Pre cloud era CIOs standardized platforms around Java & .Net, combining disparate architectural elements in order to achieve the Enterprise Platforms capability
Platforms on the Cloud Composite, Self-contained, Pre-integrated, Business Application Platform stacks on the cloud; provided as service
Platforms On The Cloud
Virtualization Integration servers analytics Workflow engine Enterprise mobility
Convergence of technologies
Visual development Enterprise integration
Rich internet apps
aPaaS (Application PaaS)
iPaaS (Integration PaaS)
Platforms on the cloud
» Integrated & Co-‐located Suite of cloud services for Integra=on & governance ini=a=ves
» Cloud enabled Integra=on Pla@orms (CEIP)
» eCommerce B2B, SOA, Integra=on Middleware
» Boomi, Cast Iron, Mule iON
» Development & Deployment of mul=-‐tenant elas=cally scalable Business Apps
» Cloud enabled Applica=on Pla@orms (CEAP)
» Composite Business Applica=on Pla@orm
» OrangeScape, Force.com
Courtesy: Gartner
Abstraction Productivity Modeling
Granularity Control Programming
Metadata created in visual modeling environment that is interpreted by the aPaaS at run=me
Code deployment conforming to framework & let the pla@orm worry about deploying it onto compute nodes
Deploy applica=on code to instances of virtual machines
Metadata aPaaS
Framework aPaaS
Instance aPaaS
Classes of aPaaS
Courtesy: Gartner
Elastic beanstalk
Changing Workforce Dynamics
Mass Customization
Maturation of SOA
Simplified Development Tools
The Rise Of Citizen Developers
Cloud Delivery Models
Ci-zen Developer : Noun
a user opera=ng outside the
scope of enterprise IT and its
governance who creates new
business applica=ons for
consump=on by others from
scratch or by composi=on.
not new – Cloud only accelerates it!
There are nearly 250 Million
Knowledge Workers in Enterprises.
An estimated 100 Million on Lotus Notes.
By 2013, an estimated 1800 Enterprises with
5000+ users
Evidence of latent need for Innovation on fringes
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Citizen Developers
Metadata created in visual modeling environment that is interpreted at run=me
Metadata PaaS
We Call it Visual PaaS
By 2014, citizen developers will build at
least 25% of new business applications.
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How does it Impact this? Look at Longtail! Usage
Core Apps
Supporting Apps
• Mission cri-cal • Tracked by CIOs • Enterprise wide usage
Applica-ons
Situational Apps • Non-‐ Mission cri-cal, but important • 200+ Small / medium apps • Approx. 10 to 50 users per app
• Non-‐mission cri-cal, not important • Developed by power end users • Short life-me -‐ weeks, max months
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The Balance conundrum
Citizen Developers Professional Developers
Business-‐Domain oriented Power Users or close to them Part of Line of Business (LOB)
Technology oriented IT Architects & Programmers
Part of IT Organiza=on
Two extremes of Platform Capability Requirements
Platform Implementation
• Modeling driven process/app development • Business driven, IT supported • Fast, Itera=ve, Visual, Ci=zen development • Complex & Core Enterprise Apps
Platform Governance
• Business Value Liaison with LOB • Shared Services and Support • Pla@orm Capability Planning & Alignment
Platform Engineering
• Pla@orm Capability • Shared Common infrastructure • Architectural stack and App Pla@orm
business
Technology
Platform in the cloud
PaaS Vendor
Enterprise IT
Standard Differentiated
Standard Configured Customized Built
Business Productivity
Content & Collaboration
Transactions Processing
Business Process Apps
Business Analytics
the Platforms Standard Apps
Standard Differentiated
Standard Configured Customized Built
Business Productivity
Content & Collaboration
Transactions Processing
Business Process Apps
Business Analytics
Complete Story - Future Of Business ApplicatioNS
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