The document discusses the challenges of 'shadow IT' in organizations, where IT activities occur outside formal IT frameworks, leading to inefficiencies and increased operational risks. It highlights the need for empowering developers through self-service models, agile processes, and integrating old and new IT systems to foster creativity while ensuring governance and security. The proposed solutions focus on utilizing cloud technologies and API-driven services to streamline application development and management.

1. From 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. Challenge – Consumer driven
3

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
a VMruntime
policies
devops
policies
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7. Result – the finale
7
YOU’RE
FIRED!
and
MEET MY
LAWYER!

8. Result – Shadow IT
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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. 11
Story : Protecting spreadsheets

12. Shadow IT – today
12

13. 13
People are tech savvy

14. 14
Public hosting is affordable
and accessible.

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

16. Internal battle
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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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2
3
4

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

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

19. Solution to facilitate
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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
20
Self service
Workflow
driven
Polyglot
programming
model
Heterogynous
runtimes
API driven
Automated /
Template
driven

21. 21
Manage App Development
Manage App Usage

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

23. Reference Architecture
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24. Implementation
24

25. Implementation, integrated
25

26. Implementation, runtime view
26

27. Self service, template driven, automated
27

28. CXO/EA dashboards, monitor, measure
28

29. Lifecycle, manage, control, advertise
29

30. Runtime, enterprise middleware
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31. Runtime, cloud enabled, polyglot
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32. 32
Runtime, cloud enabled, polyglot

33. WSO2 Cloud Platform
33

34. Connect Old IT with New IT
34

35. 35
Connected, internally and externally

36. Reference architecture, cont.
36

37. 37
Story : DevOps PaaS in airline

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b : http://asanka.abeysinghe.org
t : @asankama
e : asankaa AT wso2.com
w : http://wso2.com