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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 Processes

Business Analytics

Standard Differentiated

Standard Configured Customized Built




Business Processes

Business Analytics


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


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






Business Process Apps

Business Analytics

the Platforms Standard Apps






Business Process Apps

Business Analytics

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