1. 1. Platform for Digital Transformation Asanka Abeysinghe Vice President, Solutions Architecture Strategy for Modern Enterprise Architecture http://asanka.abeysinghe.org @asankama
2. 2. Platforms are systems that support a community. A platform is an investment, often a long-term investment that will only pay for itself over a long period of time. A platform supports a network a shared resource and in order to thrive, it must attract and retain members. - Gray, Dave; The Connected Company.
3. 3. - Demand from the business stakeholders - Rapidly changing business requirements - Quick release cycles - Continues integration and testing - Rapid technology changes - Provide Middleware-as-a-Service (platform)
4. 4. Do I need the entire platform ?
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7. 7. Give a code name for the platform. e.g. Digital Platform Dont use product/vendor names.
8. 8. Introduce an onboarding program. Including samples, documents, patterns and training.
9. 9. Evangelize the platform (internally).
10. 10. Build foundation services and expose as APIs. Increase the developer productivity and reusability.
11. 11. Seamlessly integrated.
12. 12. Have a common enterprise architecture practices across the organization. Include architects from different BUs and architecture groups.
13. 13. New Ideas Better Ideas Common Ideas I dont know exactly what I want. I need to experiment. I know what I want, but it needs to be different from my competitors. I know what I want and it doesnt have to be unique. Systemsof Innovation Differentiation Record Digital Platform Business Domain Services [Can, but does not change often] Rate of Change := Managed, Medium Digital Experience [Can and does change often] Rate of Change := Uncontrollable, Fast Data Subject Services [Does not change often] Rate of Change := Managed, Slow Digital Traditional
14. 14. Mobile, social, store Event driven, IoT Bigdata, analytics DevOps Iterative Cloud native Open source API driven { } Polyglot programming QoS
15. 15. Mobile, social, store Event driven, IoT Bigdata, analytics DevOps Iterative Cloud native Open source API driven { } Polyglot programming QoS
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