WEBINAR

Is Your SOA Enough to Build

Enterprise Mobile Apps?

DATE: October 29, 2014

TIME: 1:00-1:30 p.m. EDT

Speaker:

Coco Jaenicke, CMO, Verivo Software

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About Verivo Software

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• Founded in 1999

• Focus on enabling mobility in the enterprise

• Released 2 commercial platforms for building and deploying apps

Verivo Software

Veterans in the mobile

application industry

Verivo Customers

A track record of mobile

app success with over

500 apps deployed

• Early mobile apps: built apps for Wall Street

• Devices proliferate: delivered AppStudio, a MEAP to build apps quickly

• Apps proliferate: delivered Akula, an open platform to develop, secure and govern apps

Verivo Evolution

Increasing velocity as the

mobile market evolves

The Vision – Build Mobile Apps From Reusable Services

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SOA (Wikipedia):

“distinct pieces of software providing application functionality as services to other applications..independent of any

vendor, product or technology”

Shouldn’t this include mobile?

SOA promised me technology independence!

We made a significant investment in SOA…

The Good News: SOA gives you almost all you need

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Existing SOA / Middleware

web services

web app

server

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n p

latfo

rm

Hand c

ode

Mobile Devices: Different Limitations

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• Battery • Apps can consume

excessive power

• A dead phone is a

useless phone

• Bandwidth • Apps can demand

more data than they

need

• A slow phone is a

hindrance

Consider the entire user experience

Mobile Devices: Connectivity is Intermittent

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Many work environments are prone to dead zones

What do you need off-line?

• Just read data

• Write data

• Write with transactions

If you can’t work off-line, you can’t work

Mobile Devices: They are Mobile…

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• Phones can be lost – who will pick it up?

• Phones are shared – will the terrible twos get you fired?

• BYOD = mixed use – will personal photos get wiped?

Security is much more complicated

Mobile App Server: Extend SOA to Mobile

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Corporate Systems

SOA

Accommodate for…

• Small, low-bandwidth devices

• Mobile security

• Unreliable connectivity

• BYOD – multiple platforms, mixed

personal and business use

…by providing services for • Security and governance policies

• Data access

• Data sync

• SOAP REST

• Authentication

• Entitlements

• Off-line availability

• App management

• Monitoring

• Tracking

Mobile App Server

Verivo Akula and Existing Middleware

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Existing SOA / Middleware

authentication

source

data routing /

business logic

authentication /

authorization data sync

web services mobile services

Akula SDK

off-line capabilities

data encryption

client actions

web app

server

mobile app server

adm

inis

tratio

n p

latfo

rm

app

bus. logic

security

data access

data sync

bus. logic

Technology Shift: Strategic Approach to Building Apps

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IT control Development teams

SOA Services

UI / UX

UI / UX

UI / UX

UI / UX

SOA Services

Mobile App

Server

security

data access

data sync

bus. logic

develop – secure - govern

hard to update - hard to secure - expensive

app

bus. logic

security

data access

data sync

ent. service app

UI / UX

security

data access

data sync

bus. logic

app

UI / UX

security

data access

data sync

bus. logic

Verivo Akula – Enterprise Mobile App Platform

JDBC

<CUSTOM>

REST

SOAP

CUSTOM

LOGIC

JOIN FILTER

SELECT

TRANSFORM

CREDENTIAL STORAGE

ENTITLEMENTS

APP PROPERTIES / POLICY

AUTHENTICATION

JMX DEPLOYMENT SERVICES

GEOSERVICES NOTIFICATIONS

DATA SYNC AND OFFLINE

STORE API LOCAL STORE

CONTENT STORE

SECURITY POLICY

APP PROPERTIES

AUTHENTICATION/LOGIN (offline login)

DATA MODEL ENTITIES

MANAGEMENT

CONSOLE

SNMP

JMX

AD – LDAP -

JDBC - <CUSTUM>

DATABASE MEDIA SOCIAL

MAPPING CMS SAP

SALESFORCE REST <CUSTOM>

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

PLATFORMS

SCOM TIVOLI

ENTERPRISE SECURITY & POLICY

MANAGEMENT & CONTROL APIs

MOBILE APP SERVICES

UNICENTER

Case Study: Manufacturing Goes Mobile

• Company – leading company, with over 50,000 employees

• Inventory App – scan supplies in locations across campus, feed data into supply chain management system

• Before – proprietary, hand-held devices used for scans, data synced at the end of the day

o Expensive o ERP systems often had out-of-date data o Data overwrite errors

• Challenges of building a mobile app –

o Authenticating users o Managing multiple users o Campus dead zones o Plug into existing business processes

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Case Study: Manufacturing Company Goes Mobile

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BPM

ERP SUPPLIES AUTHENTICATION DISTRIBUTION

service service service

Case Study: Manufacturing Company Goes Mobile

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ESB

BPM

ERP SUPPLIES AUTHENTICATION DISTRIBUTION

service service service

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SOA and Mobile

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1. SOA principles still apply: reusable services rule

2. Development and IT: consider who owns what

3. You are in good shape: use your SOA

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• eMail: sales@verivo.com

• Call: 781-795-8200

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