digital and the api economy - don't forget your systems of record
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Digital and the API EconomyDon’t Forget Your Systems of
Record
Jason BloombergPresident
@theebizwizard
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About Jason Bloomberg
• President of industry analyst firm Intellyx
• Agile digital transformation thought leader
• Write for Forbes, several blogs, biweekly newsletter the Cortex
• Buy my latest book, The Agile Architecture Revolution
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What is Digital?
Customer preferences & behaviordrive technology choices
Range of technology touchpoints is exploding
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What about Transformation?
Internal organizational change is necessary to maintain focus on the customer in today’s
digital world
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The Digital Mandate
• The web drove ebusiness reinvention in the 1990s
• Mobile disrupted technology consumption worldwide
• Additional touchpoints exploded the digital challenge
• Now the IoT is layering on further complexity
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Shifting the Center of Gravity
Center of gravity is the IT infrastructure
Center of gravity is the customer
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Traditional IT
The Digital World
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Customer Needs Begin with the Device
• Enterprises must connect devices to back-end technology
• Must perform every time, in real-time
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End-to-End Digital
• Digital technology begins at the customer touchpoint– Including sensors & controls
• Apps connect to back end databases & systems of record
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The Legacy Challenge
• Complex hybrid scenarios
• Legacy integration/ middleware issues
• Legacy performance issues
• IT driving security & governance policies
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IT’s Role in Digital World
• Governance• Security• Maintain access to Systems of
Record– Mainframes– Midrange systems (AS/400,
iSeries)– Legacy databases– Even large enterprise apps
• Access via APIs
Don’t fall for bad bimodal advice!
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Connecting the Dots: Integration
• Connecting the customer to systems of record– Cloud & on premise– Messaging middleware– Business process &
business rules• Beyond traditional
middleware– Outside boundaries of
enterprise– Lightweight & dynamic– Real-time
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Digital Fragmentation
Few, well-understood user interfaces
Centralized middleware
IT governed & managed apps
Service interfaces from SOA effort
Explosion of types of touchpointsHybrid, cloud-centric integrationRogue IT & mobile app explosionThe API economy
The Old Days Today
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The API Economy
• APIs for internal corporate use
• APIs for partners & third-party services
• APIs in marketplaces• APIs to support mobile
apps and other touchpoints
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Jason BloombergPresident, Intellyx
@theebizwizard
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