From Shadow IT to Empowered ITUnshackling your Developers’ Creativity

Dimuthu LeelarathneSenior Architect - WSO2,Inc

Agenda

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Shadow IT

Reference Architecture

Empowered IT

Business challenges

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- Complex biz requirements- Wider problem space- Rapidly changing

- Increasing Velocity

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Technology challenges

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Relationship with IT

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2 days to create a

user

½ day to reset a

password

3 days to create a

database

1 week to provision

a VMruntime policies

devops policies

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Result – Shadow IT

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Shadow IT is IT activity that occurs outside of IT.  Shadow IT is growing in many organizations driven by consumerized technology, mobility, the availability of cloud solutions ……

Shadow IT – today

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People are tech savvy

Shadow IT Usage by Employees

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http://www.mcafee.com/hk/resources/reports/rp-six-trends-security.pdf

Is it new ?

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Export to ….

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Story : Protecting spreadsheets

Shadow IT in Software Development

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Dev Teams

Biz Users

IT

I have a solution, but can’t deploy

I need a quick solution for problem ‘x’

Not compliant with the policies

I can fund and provide hosting.

?..#@$%

CFOCIO

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Agile innovation labs

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- Applications developed in innovation labs- Driven by need- Driven by speed - Driven by knowledge - Meets business and technology demand

Lifecycle of an (unmanaged) app

In Production Maintenance

App App

APP

App

App

App

Create

6 – 9 months

Dev Teams IT

Biz Users

Managed apps

{integrate}

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35% of enterprise IT expenditures will happen outside of the corporate IT budget in 2015.

Addressing Shadow IT in Software Development

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Solution to facilitate

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Quick release cycles

Agile, iterative process

Accept the creative

experimen-tation

Empower the dev groups

Monitored GovernedSecured

AgileInfra

Solution provides

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Self service

Workflow driven /

Automated/ Monitored

Polyglot programming

model

Heterogynous runtimes

API drivenStore fronts

Template driven

Roadmap for empowered IT

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- Access to (your) cloud- Private cloud (privately/publicly hosted)- Public cloud

- Link ALM and dev tools with the cloud- Expose the services as APIs, list APIs to subscribe- Create your project templates- Develop and publish apps- Monitor development activities and usage

Reference Architecture

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Implementation

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Business dynamics have changed.Business dynamics have changed.

EnterpriseApps

Multiple Project Teams

● Collaborate

● Create

● Develop

● Deploy and host

Platform

● Shared

● Elastic

● Multi-tenant

● Self-service

● PaaSUtilizing

● APIS

● Tools

● Infrastructure

Implementation, integrated

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Streamlined Governed ALM

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Self service, template driven, automated

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CXO/EA dashboards, monitor, measure

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Lifecycle, manage, control, advertise

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Runtime, cloud enabled, polyglot

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Runtime, cloud enabled, polyglot

WSO2 Cloud Platform

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Connect Old IT with New IT

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Connected, internally and externally

Reference architecture, cont.

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e : dimuthul AT wso2.comw : http://wso2.com