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Roadmap to a Connected
Business
Journey for success
Asanka Abeysinghe
Vice President, Solutions Architecture - WSO2, Inc
Why Change? Increasingly Complex Requirements
http://wso2.com/landing/enabling-the-connected-business
Challenges
o Complex biz requirements
o Wider problem space
o Rapidly changing
o Quick release cycles
o ROI (from middleware)
o Beyond the middleware
Picture Credit : http://www.latimes.com/sports/
Connected Business
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Connected Car
Connected Health
Connected Supply Chain
Connect -*
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To improve is to change;
to be perfect change
often – Winston Churchill
Picture Credit : http://calebmagnino.com/creative/the-journey/
Technical Non-Technical
What will happen to the
current
system(s), data, people ?
When can I launch the
new system ?
How can I get there ?
Roadmap to a Connected Business
Next generation middleware
o Big-3
o Mobile
o Social
o Cloud
o APIs
o Big Data
o DevOps
o Open Source Picture Credit : http://www.latimes.com/sports/
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Requirement Stage
Requirements
Current
applications/systems
Δ Delta
Approach (Architecture)
Business
Architecture
Solution
Architecture
• Level 0
• Level 1
Application
Architecture
• Integration
• Data models
• APIs
Runtime
Architecture
• Capacity Planning
• Deployment
• Security
What the Enterprise Looks Like
Architecture
Services – get the service platforms
Architecture
Registry/Repository
Architecture
Identity/Access Control
Architecture
Connectivity - internal
Architecture
Connectivity - external
Architecture
APIs
Architecture
API Management the
missing link of SOA
success. - Sanjiva Weerawarana
Demand for APIs
Picture Credit : http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/letting-gamers-experience-the.html
API Centric SOA
BU-1 BU-2 BU-3
Services Services Services
APIs
API Façade
Monitoring, Analytics, Audits
Architecture
Picture Credit : http://youtu.be/4Ttsx5squWg
CEP – real-time
Architecture
Workflows, Rules, Pub/Sub
Architecture
Fill-in the Blanks
Architecture
Middleware Platform
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Do I need the entire
platform ?
Connected Business Reference Architecture
Beyond the middleware
o Cloud
o *PaaS to SaaS
o Cloud native
o ALM
o AppFactory
Private
PaaS
Public
PaaS
Same programming model
Same solution architecture
Same (deployable) artifacts
Cloud based deployment
Cloud native applications
Connect Old-IT and New-IT
Architecture
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Decompose your existing
business processes, data and
capabilities into services
Make all services
accessible via APIs,
externally and internally
Put services and APIs
under control ! Build an ecosystem
around your APIs
Collect data on your new
products and APIs
http://bit.ly/1m72JSa
Summary – Becoming a Connected Business
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Editor's Notes

  1. Why must organizations change their IT reference architecture? The Answer is simple: IT faces increasingly complex requirements and exceedingly demanding expectations.