1. It's So(ware, Not Technology
That's Transforming Your
Business.
The Disrup+ve Poten+al of Pla4orm as a Service (PaaS)
Geoff Youell
VP Technology Solu2on Services

2. Let’s go all the way back to 2009…
Solid, proven
business models

3. 1 year later…
Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes-2008
Neither RedBox nor Ne4lix
are even on the radar
screen in terms of
compe++on,”
Both soOware
companies

4. Disrup2on through soOware Innova2on
As we speak …
In tradi2onal Industries like Financial Services
• Financial Advisor model à Robo Advisors like Be=erment
• Centralized Transac2on Clearing firms à Distributed open
models - Blockchain - Bitcoin
In differen2ated offerings
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted Db offerings are 1/10th
the price of tradi2onal commercial products
– Open Source can be free
Tradi+onal barriers to entry no longer exist

5. Well, not us!... Wait, what?
Achieving maturity
– We have structured, cer2fied soOware development methodologies
– We have solid, stable, self contained applica2ons
– We control our own large on premises datacenter
These 2me honored badges of success now serve as
impediments in most cases
Excep2on: Systems of Record - Gartner
RunMyCompany
Application

6. Differen2a2ng yourself by
Achieving speed and flexibility
– Remove concerns about the underlying environment. Teams focused
on delivering business value using commonly accepted best prac2ces.
– Rapid and predictable development - through automa2on, con2nuous
integra2on and rapid “hot” deployment
Standardizing on scalable plaborms
– Target agnos2c: On premises or Cloud deployment
Focus: Systems of Differen2a2on and Innova2on - Gartner
Service Based
Architecture

7. Along comes Plaborm as a Service (PaaS)
“cloud compu2ng services that provide a plaborm allowing customers to
develop, run, and manage applica2ons without the complexity of building
and maintaining the infrastructure” - Wikipedia
• Service Based everything • Microservices enabler • Polyglot
• Standardized applica2on
deployment plaborm
• High Availability • Mul2tenant architecture
• Automa2on of everything
– rapid deployment
• Most efficient use of
hardware resources
• On demand resources-
auto scaling up and down
Aiributes include:
Choice: Many Open
Source vs. Commercial
offerings?

8. The shiO to PaaS gets you
Focus on Cost
Delivery timeframe- Weeks
Servers built to custom spec
Server hoarding/underutilized
Delays = missed opportunities
On Premises datacenter?
Focus on Efficiency
Delivery timeframe – Minutes
Standardized Delivery offering —
Predictable
Optimized Server utilization —
Trust in full lifecycle capabilities
Innovation
Hybrid deployment -
On Premises and/or Cloud providers
Expected Software delivery outcome
Impact
Delivery efficiency
Cost savings
Responsiveness
Cloud readiness
Tomorrow Today
As seen through:
• The prolifera2on of automaKon throughout Infrastructure and SoOware
Development processes
• A standardized, simplified technology footprint
• A push towards SoOware Development Methodologies that support iteraKve,
conKnuous delivery and feedback (Scrum, Kanban)

9. But, it’s not without a cost
The technology works and will pay for itself. However, there are
significant Change Management implica2ons for:
People
• What job func2ons are no longer necessary?
• What new skills must be obtained?
• How will people respond to what may be perceived as a threat?
Processes
• With a streamlined infrastructure provisioning and deployment capability.
Do you need to revisit your soOware development methodology to follow
suit? Is a formal DevOps structure right for you?
• How will you bring the technology organiza2on onboard with the new
capabili2es? (Training, socializa2on/evangeliza2on and adop2on)

10. Considera2ons in moving to PaaS
• Open source vs commercial offerings?
• 12 Factor App (hip://12factor.net)
• The emergence of DevOps -Job role/func2on changes
• Agile / Engineering prac2ces
• Design thinking: Service Based Architecture vs. Microservices
• Significant changes to the the way you deploy applica2ons
• The absolute need for automated tes2ng

11. Recommenda2ons
• Just do it - Start small and try it
– There’s a large community of Open Source product offerings. Large
scale web deployments have been the proving ground.
• Contributors including: Google, Neblix, Pivotal etc.
– U2lize Cloud based tools wherever feasible (all have free trials)
• The technology suppor2ng PaaS is fairly mature. However,
predominant offerings are s2ll evolving. Abstract yourself
from any par2cular vendor where you can. Follow 12 factors
principles where feasible.
– Everybody loves Containers. But, Cloud Foundry vs Open ShiO vs
Docker vs custom combina2on?
– The Services industry is really just now coming around with offerings
to assist. Watch out for those selling on “hype”

12. Q&A
Geoff Youell
VP Technology Solu2on Services
gyouell@ofiglobal.com