Platform for Digital

Transformation

Asanka Abeysinghe

Vice President, Solutions Architecture

Strategy for Modern Enterprise Architecture

http://asanka.abeysinghe.org

@asankama

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.

- 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)

Do I need the entire platform

?

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Give a code name for the

platform. e.g. Digital PlatformDon’t use product/vendor names.

Introduce an onboarding

program.Including samples, documents, patterns and

training.

Evangelize the platform

(internally).

Build foundation services and

expose as APIs. Increase the developer productivity and

reusability.

Seamlessly integrated.

Have a common enterprise

architecture practices across

the organization. Include architects from different BUs and

architecture groups.

New Ideas

BetterIdeas

CommonIdeas

I don’t 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 doesn’t have to be unique.

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fInnovation

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

Mobile,

social, storeEvent driven,

IoT

Bigdata,

analytics DevOps Iterative

Cloud nativeOpen source API driven

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programmingQoS

Mobile,

social, storeEvent driven,

IoT

Bigdata,

analytics DevOps Iterative

Cloud nativeOpen source API driven

{ }Polyglot

programmingQoS

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