Platform as a Service: Essential to Your Future
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This slide deck from a webinar conducted by Interarbor Solutions' Dana Gardner and Rosie Pongracz from Salesforce.com explains how platform as a service (PaaS) equips enterprises to innovate faster. The inevitability of PaaS will accelerate development activities, while reducing complexity for enterprise IT, allowing IT to focus more on innovation than operation.
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- 1. Platform as a Service: Essential to Your Future" Learn How
PaaS Equips Enterprises to Innovate Faster" Dana Gardner! Rosie
Pongracz !! Principal Analyst, Product Marketing Director,
Interarbor Solutions! Salesforce
Platform!sfdc_ppt_corp_template_10_20_2012.ppt
- 2. Speed Development Up, Complexity Down! PaaS capabilities on
the fast track for improvement! Gets you out of the hardware and
software infrastructure business! Make better use of cloud and
software as a service (SaaS)! PaaS forms key new ingredient to IT
and business transformation!
- 3. PaaS Flips IT s Focus from Operations to Innovation!
Innovation" Innovation!Keeping the Business lights on Innovation
Governance Governance &! & Change Management! Change
Management! Infra ! Infrastructure Mgmt! Management!
- 4. Business is demanding new apps IT isstruggling to deliver
with existing platforms! Manual, Trapped" Hard to
DeliverDisconnected " Data" Customer" Business Social Apps"
Processes" Hard to Innovate! Types of business problems!
- 5. How PaaS Fits in Now! Cloud s middle layer! Integration of
application lifecycle functions! Maintains choice on tools and IDEs
! Best-of-breed as a process! Forces standardization and
automation! Governance and security easer to implement,
manage!
- 6. PaaS: Innovation. Not Infrastructure! Cloud App Platforms"
(Platform as a Service) ! Cloud Services"Business Value!
Globalization! APIs! Mobile! Software Stack" Security! Database
Services! Analytics! Infrastructure" App Server Services! Search!
Messaging Services! Collaboration! as a Service" Directory
Services! Identity! Hardware Servers! Hardware Storage! Hardware
Networking! Business Services!
- 7. Variations on PaaS! Micro-sites to Big data! Highest levels
of Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, abstraction! Node.js, more ! Lower
Higher Clicks + code! Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL! Abstraction
Abstraction VisualForce, Apex! Git based workow! SOQL! Data model
outside SFDC! Native SFDC workow! Best for new applications Data
model within SFDC! & refresh of existing apps! Integrated &
Extended via! Database.com! Open APIs (REST, SOAP)! Open source
toolkits & libraries!
- 8. PaaS Applications! Optimization: Agility: " Innovation: "
Automate Your Build Social" Create Engaging Business" Front Ends"
Customer Apps" 29%" Increase in Innovation! Increase Unlock Legacy"
Create new Productivity! Data! Customer Channels!Source: Market
Tools Salesforce.com Customer Relationship Survey Results May
2012
- 9. Inhibitors to PaaS Adoption! Murky denitions! Lots of new
entrants! What type of apps?! Concerns on portability and
migration! Ability to govern, secure apps! Data access and privacy!
Trust!
- 10. Inevitability of PaaS! Built-in PaaS Services" Your
Innovative" Infrastructure! Application! Operations! Platform!
Touch! Social! App" Services! Services! Services! Services!
Services! Services! Lose the infrastructure, gain speed!
- 11. Case Study: Kelly Servicestransformed their business with
PaaS Supplier Mgt App! Tracks key suppliers ! Chatter provides
collaborative workspace! Deployed across 27 countries and 5
continents! Delivers real-time visibility across the company with
no new infrastructure!
- 12. Zimmer Builds iPad Digital Catalog onPaaS! iPad Digital
Catalog App! Leading supplier of orthopedic devices, and surgical
products needed real time, global business visibility! Provides
touch based navigation to identify key surgical content !
Integrated with salesforce Content! Native iPad demo for eld use by
global workforce!
- 13. Case Study: Macy s reacts faster,stays competitive, builds
in social onPaaS!
- 14. ummary and ConclusionsSummary and Conclusions! Mobile,
social apps fast! Strong tactical benets! RAD and mobile apps!
On-ramp to more clouduses! Time to experiment now! Maturing
offerings point tostrategic benets! Process level focus
forbusinesses! Productivity and costs gains! Transformation
benets!
- 15. Salesforce Runs on the Platform! OUR Apps" YOUR custom
apps" PARTNER apps" Social Mobile Real-time
- 16. Q & A" Learn more" salesforce.com/platform"
salesforce.com/paas" Salesforce platform free trial" Dana Gardner,
Principal Analyst Interarbor Solutions 603-528-2435 Follow me on
Twitter @Dana_Gardner
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