This session will examine how enterprises can leverage cloud-enabled application lifecycle management (ALM) frameworks to manage, govern and empower IT. It will explore best practices for quick release cycle management and rapid template-driven development to deliver applications in a governed and secure manner. It will also focus on how to provide internal business capabilities as APIs for application development. Moreover, the session will discuss WSO2 clients that are increasing startup speed, reducing project risk, and enabling new business models using WSO2 DevOps platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions.

1. Shadow IT to Empowered IT
Unshackling Your Developers’ Creativity
Asanka Abeysinghe
Vice President, Solutions Architecture
WSO2, Inc

2. Agenda
2
Shadow IT
Reference Architecture
Empowered IT

3. 3
Challenge – Consumer driven

4. Business challenges
4
- Complex biz requirements
- Wider problem space
- Rapidly changing
- Quick release cycles
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5. Technology challenges
5

6. Relationship with IT
6
2 days to
create a
user
½ day to
reset a
password
3 days to
create a
database
1 week to
provision
runtime a VM
policies
devops
policies
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7. Result – the finale
7
YOU’RE
FIRED! and
MEET MY
LAWYER!

8. Result – Shadow IT
8
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9. 9
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 ……

10. Is it new ?
10
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11. Story : Protecting spreadsheets
11

12. Shadow IT – today
12

13. People are tech savvy
13

14. Public hosting is affordable
and accessible.
14

15. Agile innovation labs
1
- Applications developed in innovation labs
- Driven by need
- Driven by speed
- Driven by knowledge
- Meets business and technology demand

16. Internal battle
1
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.
?..#@$%
CIO CFO
♬♪
1
2
3
4

17. Lifecycle of an (unmanaged) app
App App
Biz Users
In Production Maintenance
APP
App
App
App
Create
1
6 – 9 months
Dev Teams
IT
Managed apps
{integrate}

18. 18
35% of enterprise IT
expenditures will happen
outside of the corporate IT
budget in 2015.

19. Solution to facilitate
1
Quick
release
cycles
Agile,
iterative
process
Ability to
migrate
shadow IT
apps
Accept the
creative
experimen-tation
Empower
the dev
groups
Governed
/Secured
Enterprise
ready

20. Solution provides
2
Self service
Workflow
driven
Polyglot
programming
model
Heterogynous
runtimes
API driven
Automated /
Template
driven

21. 2
Manage App Development
Manage App Usage

22. Roadmap
2
- 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
- Track the usage
- ( Iterate last two steps )

23. Reference Architecture
2

24. Implementation
2

25. Implementation, integrated
2

26. Implementation, runtime view
2

27. Self service, template driven, automated
2

28. CXO/EA dashboards, monitor, measure
2

29. Lifecycle, manage, control, advertise
2

30. Runtime, enterprise middleware
3

31. Runtime, cloud enabled, polyglot
3

32. 3
Runtime, cloud enabled, polyglot

33. WSO2 Cloud Platform
3

34. Connect Old IT with New IT
3

35. 3
Connected, internally and externally

36. Reference architecture, cont.
3

37. Story : DevOps PaaS in airline
37

38. Thank You