Government agencies across the globe – whether they be state, local, central, or federal – face a digital transformation imperative to adopt cloud, IoT, and mobile technologies that legacy systems often struggle to keep up with.
This white paper explores how to take an architectural approach centered around APIs and microservices to unlock monolithic legacy systems for digital transformation.
Find out how to build up your API management strategy, and learn how you can:
Accelerate project delivery driven by reusable microservices
Secure data exchange within and outside agencies
Use API-led connectivity to modernize legacy systems
And more
Becoming a Connected Insurer With API-led ConnectivityMuleSoft
Becoming a Connected Insurer With API-led Connectivity
Insurance firms are under threat from rising competition, low interest rates, and historically low rates of insurance. insurance. Learn how one of the oldest insurance firms in North America is increasing operational efficiency, improving customer satisfaction and driving future growth with Anypoint Platform.
Slides from my talk at APIDays Paris 2020 on building APIs in a Cloud Native Era. This discusses the challenges in building APIs in the Cloud and how we need to address them smartly.
apidays LIVE London 2021 - Interfaces from a strategic and management perspec...apidays
apidays LIVE London 2021 - Reaching Maximum Potential in Banking & Insurance with API Mindset
October 27 & 28, 2021
From Open Banking, to Embedded Finance and Insurance
Interfaces from a strategic and management perspective
Will Venters, Professor at London School of Economics
Introduction to red hat agile integration (Red Hat Workshop)Judy Breedlove
This presentation provides and overview of Red Hat's approached to Agile integration. It was presented at the "Agile integration with Containers & APIs" workshop series. Fall 2018
apidays LIVE Australia 2021 - Quantum Duality of “API as a business and a tec...apidays
apidays LIVE Australia 2021 - Accelerating Digital
September 15 & 16, 2021
Quantum Duality of “API as a business and a technology"
Asanka Abeysinghe, Chief Technology Evangelist at WSO2
Becoming a Connected Insurer With API-led ConnectivityMuleSoft
Becoming a Connected Insurer With API-led Connectivity
Insurance firms are under threat from rising competition, low interest rates, and historically low rates of insurance. insurance. Learn how one of the oldest insurance firms in North America is increasing operational efficiency, improving customer satisfaction and driving future growth with Anypoint Platform.
Slides from my talk at APIDays Paris 2020 on building APIs in a Cloud Native Era. This discusses the challenges in building APIs in the Cloud and how we need to address them smartly.
apidays LIVE London 2021 - Interfaces from a strategic and management perspec...apidays
apidays LIVE London 2021 - Reaching Maximum Potential in Banking & Insurance with API Mindset
October 27 & 28, 2021
From Open Banking, to Embedded Finance and Insurance
Interfaces from a strategic and management perspective
Will Venters, Professor at London School of Economics
Introduction to red hat agile integration (Red Hat Workshop)Judy Breedlove
This presentation provides and overview of Red Hat's approached to Agile integration. It was presented at the "Agile integration with Containers & APIs" workshop series. Fall 2018
apidays LIVE Australia 2021 - Quantum Duality of “API as a business and a tec...apidays
apidays LIVE Australia 2021 - Accelerating Digital
September 15 & 16, 2021
Quantum Duality of “API as a business and a technology"
Asanka Abeysinghe, Chief Technology Evangelist at WSO2
Openbar Kontich // RPA: A Hype or a Proven Technology? by Tim Vangilbergen & ...Openbar
Tired of repetitive and manual tasks in your organization? Need more hands to process high volume transactions across various applications? Ever heard of a virtual workforce that can take over these repetitive actions? In this inspiring session, we will introduce the Robotics Process Automation (or RPA) technology with its facts & myths and prove that the technology is mature and irreplaceable for the digitalization of the workforce. We will also prove the power of intelligent automation by combining RPA with AI technology like chatbots and intelligent OCR.
Transform Your Business with API-led ConnectivityMuleSoft
Mobility, cloud, big data, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are driving a profound change for businesses, creating massive opportunities for innovation as well as escalating customer expectations. In this Connected Era, how well companies connect the explosion of apps, data and devices will define their success. Will you be a disrupter, or are you facing disruption? Learn from MuleSoft’s executive leadership why API-led connectivity has become a requirement for companies undergoing business transformation, and how it is creating change in every industry.
apidays LIVE New York 2021 - APIOps: automating API operations for speed and ...apidays
apidays LIVE New York 2021 - API-driven Regulations for Finance, Insurance, and Healthcare
July 28 & 29, 2021
APIOps: automating API operations for speed and quality at scale
Melissa van der Hecht, Field CTO at Kong
[WSO2 Summit Americas 2020] Having the Best Technology Isn’t EverythingWSO2
Technology has advanced so rapidly in the last ten years that new, unsolved use cases are not really our challenges anymore. We’ve got hyperscale, hyperledgers, microservices, containers, serverless, well supported open source communities and more innovations that you could possibly keep up with. There are easily adoptable solutions that can increase your applications efficiency and performance and your user's productivity by orders of magnitude. Then why is it so hard to gain adoption of what is obviously superior? Or "What I learned migrating from a large, monolithic, legacy service to an API-First cloud-capable application."
[API Word 2021] - Quantum Duality of “API as a Business and a Technology”WSO2
Every thriving API program leverages the elements from business and technology equally. Alignment of business and technology strategy, the synergy between business and technical teams, and adaptability to the changes coming from either business or technology are fundamental characteristics of such an environment. Asanka will look at four areas, federation and business models, moving to the cloud, polyglot and heterogeneous approach, and modernizing development during this talk. He will also share real-world examples based on his involvement in numerous success stories.
apidays LIVE Australia 2020 - Events are Cool Again! by Nelson Petracekapidays
apidays LIVE Australia 2020 - Building Business Ecosystems
Events are Cool Again!
Nelson Petracek, Global CTO at TIBCO and Author of "API Success: The Journey to Digital Transformation"
apidays LIVE Paris - Deploy fast with confidence by Gregory Ouillonapidays
apidays LIVE Paris - Responding to the New Normal with APIs for Business, People and Society
December 8, 9 & 10, 2020
Deploy fast with confidence
Gregory Ouillon, CTO EMEA at New Relic
apidays LIVE Australia 2021 - Unlocking the Internet of Things with Telco API...apidays
apidays LIVE Australia 2021 - Accelerating Digital
September 15 & 16, 2021
Unlocking the Internet of Things with Telco APIs: Telstra’s Track and Monitor
Michelle Howie, Developer Advocate at Telstra & Aaron Ball at Four
App modernization projects are hard. Enterprises are looking to cloud-native platforms like Pivotal Cloud Foundry to run their applications, but they’re worried about the risks inherent to any replatforming effort.
Fortunately, several repeatable patterns of successful incremental migration have emerged.
In this webcast, Google Cloud’s Prithpal Bhogill and Pivotal’s Shaun Anderson will discuss best practices for app modernization and securely and seamlessly routing traffic between legacy stacks and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
apidays LIVE New York 2021 - API for multi-cloud management platform by Pawel...apidays
apidays LIVE New York 2021 - API-driven Regulations for Finance, Insurance, and Healthcare
July 28 & 29, 2021
API for multi-cloud management platform
Pawel Skrzypek, Chief Multi Cloud Architect at 7bulls
Join Sam Ramji, CEO of Cloud Foundry, and Ed Anuff and Martin Nally of Apigee for a lively debate around API management and the roles that PaaS, APIs, and microservices play in providing services to applications, automating deployment, scaling and securing applications, metering and analyzing application usage, and much more.
Listen to the podcast version here: http://bit.ly/1J21z4v
Watch the video recording here: https://youtu.be/uu4h_yc2IgQ
[WSO2 Summit Americas 2020] The Integrated API Supply ChainWSO2
APIs are the products of the 21st century. As we build out API systems, we find that we are constantly learning from product journeys. We propose a new kind of supply chain - the Integrated API Supply Chain (IASC) - which is needed by any organization looking to create and monetize API products, either directly or indirectly. In this deck, Asanka will outline our vision of the IASC, identify five key patterns for success, and give a blueprint for creating a digital business based on API products.
[WSO2 Summit APAC 2020] APIs as the Accelerator to Bring CSP Business ForwardWSO2
With the competitive landscape and challenges in the telecommunication market, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) or Telcos need to change the game plan to elevate the industry to the next level. Going beyond connectivity, CSPs are now leveraging IT and digital technologies to transform the traditional business into becoming Digital Telco and eventually Cognitive Telco. To enable this, APIs are the fundamental building block to open up new digital capabilities and potential collaboration with multi partners for B2B2C business.
Watch the session on-demand here: https://wso2.com/library/summit-2020/apac/apis-as-the-accelerator-to-bring-csp-business-forward/
[WSO2 Summit APAC 2020] APIs: The Products of the 21st CenturyWSO2
APIs are the oil of the digital world. Different forms and types of APIs power the digital mesh to which we’re all connected to. The potential and reach of APIs however are heavily underutilized today in many organizations. The root cause of this seems to be the lack of a “product mindset” on APIs. Organizations that strategically invest in building a product mindset for APIs have been successful in putting themselves significantly ahead of the curve in innovation. In this session, Nuwan will talk about six key points that will be valuable for API product managers and architects to bring in a product mindset to APIs within their organizations. This will help them to build a more streamlined, agile, and repeatable process that converts their APIs into digital products.
Watch the session on-demand here: https://wso2.com/library/summit-2020/apac/apis-the-products-of-the-21st-century/
apidays LIVE Jakarta - Building an Event-Driven Architecture by Harin Honesty...apidays
apidays LIVE Jakarta 2021 - Accelerating Digitisation
February 24, 2021
Building an Event-Driven Architecture
Harin Honestyandi Parandika, Microservice and Middleware Designer at XL Axiata
Rebooting IT Infrastructure for the Digital AgeCapgemini
The Digital Transformation Institute has launched its latest research report titled “Faster, Better, Smarter: Rebooting IT Infrastructure for the Digital Age.” The report highlights why organizations need robust and seamless IT infrastructure that keeps pace with evolving market and technology demands. IT infrastructure has always been known as a “keeping the lights on” function but now it has evolved into a core catalyst of Digital Transformation. However, as a function, IT infrastructure is yet to undergo a core transformation. The report discusses why a reboot is critical.
Openbar Kontich // RPA: A Hype or a Proven Technology? by Tim Vangilbergen & ...Openbar
Tired of repetitive and manual tasks in your organization? Need more hands to process high volume transactions across various applications? Ever heard of a virtual workforce that can take over these repetitive actions? In this inspiring session, we will introduce the Robotics Process Automation (or RPA) technology with its facts & myths and prove that the technology is mature and irreplaceable for the digitalization of the workforce. We will also prove the power of intelligent automation by combining RPA with AI technology like chatbots and intelligent OCR.
Transform Your Business with API-led ConnectivityMuleSoft
Mobility, cloud, big data, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are driving a profound change for businesses, creating massive opportunities for innovation as well as escalating customer expectations. In this Connected Era, how well companies connect the explosion of apps, data and devices will define their success. Will you be a disrupter, or are you facing disruption? Learn from MuleSoft’s executive leadership why API-led connectivity has become a requirement for companies undergoing business transformation, and how it is creating change in every industry.
apidays LIVE New York 2021 - APIOps: automating API operations for speed and ...apidays
apidays LIVE New York 2021 - API-driven Regulations for Finance, Insurance, and Healthcare
July 28 & 29, 2021
APIOps: automating API operations for speed and quality at scale
Melissa van der Hecht, Field CTO at Kong
[WSO2 Summit Americas 2020] Having the Best Technology Isn’t EverythingWSO2
Technology has advanced so rapidly in the last ten years that new, unsolved use cases are not really our challenges anymore. We’ve got hyperscale, hyperledgers, microservices, containers, serverless, well supported open source communities and more innovations that you could possibly keep up with. There are easily adoptable solutions that can increase your applications efficiency and performance and your user's productivity by orders of magnitude. Then why is it so hard to gain adoption of what is obviously superior? Or "What I learned migrating from a large, monolithic, legacy service to an API-First cloud-capable application."
[API Word 2021] - Quantum Duality of “API as a Business and a Technology”WSO2
Every thriving API program leverages the elements from business and technology equally. Alignment of business and technology strategy, the synergy between business and technical teams, and adaptability to the changes coming from either business or technology are fundamental characteristics of such an environment. Asanka will look at four areas, federation and business models, moving to the cloud, polyglot and heterogeneous approach, and modernizing development during this talk. He will also share real-world examples based on his involvement in numerous success stories.
apidays LIVE Australia 2020 - Events are Cool Again! by Nelson Petracekapidays
apidays LIVE Australia 2020 - Building Business Ecosystems
Events are Cool Again!
Nelson Petracek, Global CTO at TIBCO and Author of "API Success: The Journey to Digital Transformation"
apidays LIVE Paris - Deploy fast with confidence by Gregory Ouillonapidays
apidays LIVE Paris - Responding to the New Normal with APIs for Business, People and Society
December 8, 9 & 10, 2020
Deploy fast with confidence
Gregory Ouillon, CTO EMEA at New Relic
apidays LIVE Australia 2021 - Unlocking the Internet of Things with Telco API...apidays
apidays LIVE Australia 2021 - Accelerating Digital
September 15 & 16, 2021
Unlocking the Internet of Things with Telco APIs: Telstra’s Track and Monitor
Michelle Howie, Developer Advocate at Telstra & Aaron Ball at Four
App modernization projects are hard. Enterprises are looking to cloud-native platforms like Pivotal Cloud Foundry to run their applications, but they’re worried about the risks inherent to any replatforming effort.
Fortunately, several repeatable patterns of successful incremental migration have emerged.
In this webcast, Google Cloud’s Prithpal Bhogill and Pivotal’s Shaun Anderson will discuss best practices for app modernization and securely and seamlessly routing traffic between legacy stacks and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
apidays LIVE New York 2021 - API for multi-cloud management platform by Pawel...apidays
apidays LIVE New York 2021 - API-driven Regulations for Finance, Insurance, and Healthcare
July 28 & 29, 2021
API for multi-cloud management platform
Pawel Skrzypek, Chief Multi Cloud Architect at 7bulls
Join Sam Ramji, CEO of Cloud Foundry, and Ed Anuff and Martin Nally of Apigee for a lively debate around API management and the roles that PaaS, APIs, and microservices play in providing services to applications, automating deployment, scaling and securing applications, metering and analyzing application usage, and much more.
Listen to the podcast version here: http://bit.ly/1J21z4v
Watch the video recording here: https://youtu.be/uu4h_yc2IgQ
[WSO2 Summit Americas 2020] The Integrated API Supply ChainWSO2
APIs are the products of the 21st century. As we build out API systems, we find that we are constantly learning from product journeys. We propose a new kind of supply chain - the Integrated API Supply Chain (IASC) - which is needed by any organization looking to create and monetize API products, either directly or indirectly. In this deck, Asanka will outline our vision of the IASC, identify five key patterns for success, and give a blueprint for creating a digital business based on API products.
[WSO2 Summit APAC 2020] APIs as the Accelerator to Bring CSP Business ForwardWSO2
With the competitive landscape and challenges in the telecommunication market, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) or Telcos need to change the game plan to elevate the industry to the next level. Going beyond connectivity, CSPs are now leveraging IT and digital technologies to transform the traditional business into becoming Digital Telco and eventually Cognitive Telco. To enable this, APIs are the fundamental building block to open up new digital capabilities and potential collaboration with multi partners for B2B2C business.
Watch the session on-demand here: https://wso2.com/library/summit-2020/apac/apis-as-the-accelerator-to-bring-csp-business-forward/
[WSO2 Summit APAC 2020] APIs: The Products of the 21st CenturyWSO2
APIs are the oil of the digital world. Different forms and types of APIs power the digital mesh to which we’re all connected to. The potential and reach of APIs however are heavily underutilized today in many organizations. The root cause of this seems to be the lack of a “product mindset” on APIs. Organizations that strategically invest in building a product mindset for APIs have been successful in putting themselves significantly ahead of the curve in innovation. In this session, Nuwan will talk about six key points that will be valuable for API product managers and architects to bring in a product mindset to APIs within their organizations. This will help them to build a more streamlined, agile, and repeatable process that converts their APIs into digital products.
Watch the session on-demand here: https://wso2.com/library/summit-2020/apac/apis-the-products-of-the-21st-century/
apidays LIVE Jakarta - Building an Event-Driven Architecture by Harin Honesty...apidays
apidays LIVE Jakarta 2021 - Accelerating Digitisation
February 24, 2021
Building an Event-Driven Architecture
Harin Honestyandi Parandika, Microservice and Middleware Designer at XL Axiata
Rebooting IT Infrastructure for the Digital AgeCapgemini
The Digital Transformation Institute has launched its latest research report titled “Faster, Better, Smarter: Rebooting IT Infrastructure for the Digital Age.” The report highlights why organizations need robust and seamless IT infrastructure that keeps pace with evolving market and technology demands. IT infrastructure has always been known as a “keeping the lights on” function but now it has evolved into a core catalyst of Digital Transformation. However, as a function, IT infrastructure is yet to undergo a core transformation. The report discusses why a reboot is critical.
The cumulative effect of decades of IT infrastructure investment around a diverse set of technologies and processes has stifled innovation at organizations around the globe. Layer upon layer of complexity to accommodate a staggering array of applications has created hardened processes that make changes to systems difficult and cumbersome.
The Federal government today is in the midst of a revolution. The revolution is challenging the norms of government by introducing new ways of serving the people. New models for creating services and delivering information; new policies and procedures that are redefining federal acquisition and what it means to be a federal system integrator. This revolution also lacks the physical and tangible artifacts of the past. Its ephemeral nature, global expanse and economic impact all combine in a tidal wave of change. This revolution is called cloud computing.
The data center impact of cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security rlw03...Diego Alberto Tamayo
Introduction
The consumerization of IT continues to have a major impact
on business. Technology forces have emerged that are
challenging organizations’ ability to respond. Cloud computing,
mobility, social business, big data and analytics and IT security
technologies are evolving very rapidly, putting an organization’s
IT agility, speed and resilience to the test. As these technologies
mature and converge, they are demanding a total reexamination
of the underlying enterprise infrastructure: its strategy and
design, its operation and its management framework.
The Government of New Brunswick Enterprise Architecture RoadmapTamim Rahman
This document can be downloaded as a PDF for a better viewing experience; click on "Save". This roadmap was shared in a Symposium held on September 25th. A summary of this event can be found on http://www.qrs3e.com/gnb_ocio_togaf/
Role of Mobility in Workplace TransformationAVI-SPL
Mobility is changing the workplace and the way agencies serve the public.
Mobile technology is by far the biggest factor driving change in the modern workplace. And government agencies are not immune. Mobile has revolutionized traditional employment with concepts like BYOD, remote working, and the virtual workplace, and while the private sector is definitely the frontrunner in embracing the digitally driven work environment, government agencies are beginning to dip their feet into mobility and mobile-driven concepts. Modern agencies need a strong tech adoption strategy, including cloud, federated networks, and other scalable option. Download our free whitepaper to learn how state government can deploy these solutions while still remaining focused on simplicity, security, and the risks related to BYOD > http://hubs.ly/H01bxm50
Top 5 trends impacting multicloud management.pptxDianaRAICU2
This presentation from InterCloud uncovers the top five trends that will impact multicloud management in 2023, with expert insight on how businesses can unleash the full potential of their digital transformation strategies by successfully managing growing complexities to harness the inherent advantages of the cloud.
Digital transformation is the process of reorienting an organization to focus on value creation through the widespread and persistent application of digital technologies.
Virtual Instruments - Infrastructure Performance Management White PaperJohn McDonald
Summary
Enterprise IT Agility Challenges Mission critical Federal IT application delivery infrastructures are being virtualized at a break-neck pace, and are increasingly abstracted and complex. Agile development means changes are continual, and these same infrastructures are required to deliver a flawless end-user experience characterized by hyper-responsive performance and availability.
Impediments to Aligning IT Organizations with Mission Goals Not having the right people, processes and technology solutions, and leveraging old technologies that weren’t purpose-built to handle today’s complex and ever-changing infrastructure, prevents IT from delivering mission-aligned service levels.
Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) – a Platform to Ensure Federal IT Value IPM is a new platform category for managing the physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure.
Capabilities Required in an IPM Platform Key requirements include continuous, real-time, system-wide data collection from heterogeneous IT infrastructures, combined with unbiased correlation and analysis.
Benefits of an IPM platform Delivers ROI to Federal Agencies for both CAPEX and OPEX savings. Ensures optimal budget alignment. Guarantees performance, mitigates risk and aligns Federal IT infrastructures with agency application and mission requirements.
Virtual Instruments’ VirtualWisdom platform A comprehensive IPM platform providing 360o visibility into the performance, health and availability of the IT infrastructure
The survival kit for your digital transformationrun_frictionless
To go digital, you need an IT organization, an enterprise architecture, IT processes, and tools that allow for new projects to go live tomorrow instead of next week. The ability to do this will give you a competitive advantage and it will also reduce costs. But how do you get there? This white paper will get you there.
https://runfrictionless.com/b2b-white-paper-service/
A different way to look at the challenges of IT operations :
monitoring your environment is one thing but don't you need to know who is taking care of your issues ?
IT operations is as much about your NOC people than it is about your monitoring infrastructure
Similar to API-led connectivity: How to leverage reusable microservices (20)
Learn how a configurable, cloud-based web experience that supports single sign-on, common navigation, and a common look across application can streamline ERP for users.
Gain new visibility in your DevOps teamAbhishek Sood
DevOps implementation too often focuses only on communication between dev teams and their business counterparts, but fails to adequately loop in downstream testing and operations teams. A lack of visibility for operations teams leads to delaying rollouts and going live with buggy code.
Check this Forrester Consulting report to see what strategies DevOps teams are using to maximize visibility, speed, and agility.
Azure IaaS: Cost savings, new revenue opportunities, and business benefits Abhishek Sood
By now, it is well known that moving to the cloud saves on various costs, but exactly how much benefit can you expect to realize? How do the experts evaluate platforms and what do they see as the key challenges a platform will need to overcome? This paper answers all this and demonstrates how to evaluate an IaaS service for you.
3-part approach to turning IoT data into business powerAbhishek Sood
There will be 44 zettabytes of data produced by IoT alone by 2020, according to IDC. That’s a little more than the cumulative size of 44 trillion feature films.
Data from IoT devices will soon be table stakes in your industry, if it isn’t already. Turning that data into quick and actionable insights is the race for all businesses who are investing in IoT devices.
Learn about a 3-pronged approach that can turn your IoT data into business actions:
Business-wide analytics revolution
Connected relationships with customers
Intelligent innovation based on data
Chances are if someone were to ask you to choose a department in your company where you could save close to $9 million as part of a 3-year ROI, HR wouldn’t make the top-of-the-mind list. Years past would suggest something closely related to HR - like layoffs - as holding the answer, but that’s not where the dollars could be saved as one large American healthcare provider found out.
The undisclosed, $4 billion organization was unfortunately riddled with inconsistencies and redundancies throughout their HR department that were ultimately draining massive amounts of resources. After much thought, the provider turned to ServiceNow for advice - and a new solution.
In this exclusive Forrester Research report, see how this healthcare provider was able to consumerize their employee service experience, which led them to unlock benefits like:
Benefits approaching $10 million in savings
30% improved efficiency in servicing HR cases
50% reduction in audit and compliance costs
And more
Big news coming for DevOps: What you need to knowAbhishek Sood
As the DevOps culture continues to sweep through the IT world, and the trend toward microservices picks up steam, VMware steps into the fray with their recent acquisition of Wavefront.
What does this mean for you?
This exclusive e-guide takes a look at what one of the largest names in virtualization platforms is looking to do with DevOps monitoring, as well as:
How they plan to stand out against the competition
How they are moving forward with the cloud
And more
Microservices best practices: Integration platforms, APIs, and moreAbhishek Sood
Your business’s ability to adapt quickly, drive innovation, and meet new competition wherever it arises is a strategic necessity in today’s world of constant change and disruption.
This paper explores how many organizations are laying a foundation for continuous innovation and agility by adopting microservice architectures.
Discover how to build a highly productive, unified integration framework for microservices that creates a seamless app network with API-led connectivity.
How to measure your cybersecurity performanceAbhishek Sood
In order for organizations to stay competitive, they must always be improving. This too is true for their cybersecurity.
Being able to properly harvest and digest cybersecurity benchmarking information is critical for today’s CIOs. If you realize that your cybersecurity is not at the level it should be, evaluating it properly can help you raise appropriate resources to fix the issues.
Discover how to get the full picture of your organization's security performance compared to your peers. Learn why benchmarking is so critical for today's CIOs and how to clearly communicate benchmarking data to your board.
Organizations have been putting the cloud to use for years, but recently the trickle of workloads being moved from on-premises to public cloud environments has grown into a tidal wave.
But just what public cloud infrastructure strategies are being used, in terms of the number of providers with which they partner, and do they see these services simply augmenting existing on-premises environments or as a means of revolutionizing them?
Read this ESG research brief to get the answer to these questions and more.
Gartner predicts that nearly 40% of enterprise IT application spend will be shifted to cloud versus on-premise by 2020.
However, most IT departments evaluate and select cloud-based apps based on their many business productivity benefits but a number of critical security and performance issues need to be considered at the same time.
This white paper details some of the major considerations you will need to focus on when looking for cloud app security. You will also learn about:
Limitations of existing products
Integrated cloud security gateway approach
Malware and data security challenges
And much, much more
How to integrate risk into your compliance-only approachAbhishek Sood
Information security policies and standards can oftentimes cause confusion and even liability within an organization.
This resource details 4 pitfalls of a compliance-only approach and offers a secure method to complying with policies and standards through a risk-integrated approach.
Uncover 4 Benefits of integrating risk into your compliance approach, including:
Reduced risk
Reduced deployment time
And 2 more
DLP 101: Help identify and plug information leaksAbhishek Sood
A data loss prevention (DLP) strategy isn’t something to be taken lightly: its cost, impact on process, and responsibility for keeping an enterprise’s data secure cannot be understated as data becomes more accessible and mobile.
In this e-guide discover:
What it means for security for data to be in use, in motion, and at rest
How DLP works: standalone vs. integrated
The DLP learning curve
And more
IoT: 3 keys to handling the oncoming barrage of use casesAbhishek Sood
74.5 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2025. The Internet of Things (IoT) is going to impact every industry around the world, if it hasn't already.
Of course, something as significant as the IoT will present a number of challenges as it is introduced to traditional operations environments.
Access this infographic to prepare for an onslaught of IoT use cases and refocus your strategy to focus on scale, complexity, and security.
How 3 trends are shaping analytics and data management Abhishek Sood
Explore how 3 current trends are shaping modern data environments and learn about the impact of non-relational databases, big data, cloud data integration, self-service analytics, and more.
How to create a secure high performance storage and compute infrastructureAbhishek Sood
Creating a secure, high-performance enterprise storage system presents a number of challenges.
Without a high throughput, low latency connection between your SAN and your cloud compute infrastructure, your business will struggle to extract actionable insights in time to make the best decisions.
Download this white paper to discover technology designed to deliver maximum storage and compute capacity for enterprises, with massive data stores, that need to solve business problems fast without compromising the security of user information.
Enterprise software usability and digital transformationAbhishek Sood
This report produced by IFS and CFE Media explores how ERP software usability is closely linked to a business' perceived readiness for digital transformation.
Transforming for digital customers across 6 key industriesAbhishek Sood
While many industries recognize the value of digital transformation and the role it plays in meeting increasingly high customer expectations, digital transformation maturity is lagging behind in several industries.
To learn more, Forrester Consulting conducted a study to evaluate the state of digital transformation across 6 industries, including retail, banking, healthcare, insurance, telco, and media.
Find out how each of these industries is faring in a digital-first world, and uncover the report’s key findings about:
The role of digital technologies in shaping customer relationships
Areas of improvement: From operations to digital marketing
Recommendations for the next steps in digital transformation
And more
Authentication best practices: Experts weigh inAbhishek Sood
A 2017 Aite Group survey of 1,095 U.S. consumers who use online and/or mobile banking revealsusers’ perceptions of various forms of authentication.
Access this report now to uncover key findings from this study and expert recommendations to improve authentication security and user experience.
Inside, learn about:
•Notable 2016 data breaches
•Market trends and implications
•Consumers’ attitudes toward passwords
•Pros and cons of authentication methods
Exploring Career Paths in Cybersecurity for Technical CommunicatorsBen Woelk, CISSP, CPTC
Brief overview of career options in cybersecurity for technical communicators. Includes discussion of my career path, certification options, NICE and NIST resources.
New Explore Careers and College Majors 2024.pdfDr. Mary Askew
Explore Careers and College Majors is a new online, interactive, self-guided career, major and college planning system.
The career system works on all devices!
For more Information, go to https://bit.ly/3SW5w8W
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Modern Society.pdfssuser3e63fc
Just a game Assignment 3
1. What has made Louis Vuitton's business model successful in the Japanese luxury market?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan?
3. What are the specifics of the Japanese fashion luxury market?
4. How did Louis Vuitton enter into the Japanese market originally? What were the other entry strategies it adopted later to strengthen its presence?
5. Will Louis Vuitton have any new challenges arise due to the global financial crisis? How does it overcome the new challenges?Assignment 3
1. What has made Louis Vuitton's business model successful in the Japanese luxury market?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan?
3. What are the specifics of the Japanese fashion luxury market?
4. How did Louis Vuitton enter into the Japanese market originally? What were the other entry strategies it adopted later to strengthen its presence?
5. Will Louis Vuitton have any new challenges arise due to the global financial crisis? How does it overcome the new challenges?Assignment 3
1. What has made Louis Vuitton's business model successful in the Japanese luxury market?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan?
3. What are the specifics of the Japanese fashion luxury market?
4. How did Louis Vuitton enter into the Japanese market originally? What were the other entry strategies it adopted later to strengthen its presence?
5. Will Louis Vuitton have any new challenges arise due to the global financial crisis? How does it overcome the new challenges?
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Government agencies across the globe - whether they be state, local, central, or federal - face a digital transformation
imperative. Increasingly sophisticated digital services provided by the private sector have increased citizen expectations of
government. For many agencies, legacy IT stacks and inflexible budgetary requirements stand in the way of meeting these
expectations. Furthermore, the convergence of multiple industry-disrupting “mega-trends,” including cloud, IoT, mobile, and
big data, has led to an explosion of connectivity endpoints, complicating the path toward digital government.
For government IT teams to keep pace with citizen expectations, they must increase IT agility without compromising security.
We propose that an architectural approach centered around APIs and microservices should be used to unlock monolithic
legacy systems where core data and services are siloed. Doing so can increase the speed of IT project delivery, leading to
more efficient, cost-effective, responsive government.
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CHALLENGES FACING GOVERNMENT IT
While IT teams across different government agencies have
distinct strategic priorities and projects, nearly all grapple
with how to deliver on an increasing number of projects
within the confines of a fixed budget. The ubiquitous
emergence of this challenge can be attributed to three key
factors: an evolution in citizen expectations, the global trend
toward austerity in government, and the convergence of
technological megatrends.
Experience with best in class private sector service
providers like Uber, Amazon, and Google have raised
citizens digital expectations from government. Citizens
expect transparency, accessibility, and responsiveness from
government services, and those expectations are only rising
as the private sector continues to innovate along these
lines. In fact, a survey of US citizens conducted by Accenture
in 2016 indicated that 85% of citizens expect “the same or
higher quality” from government digital services as they do
from commercial organizations.
Delivering on these expectations has proved to be
enormously challenging for government. Often, government
agencies are funded by legislatures who have minimal
understanding of what’s needed to execute on IT projects.
Furthermore, unlike private sector companies, who can
more easily expand their project delivery capacity through
outsourcing or increasing budget, government must instead
find creative solutions to get more value out of the resources
they have available.
Delivering on citizen expectations in an environment of
austerity has been further complicated by the convergence
of multiple tech mega-trends like mobile, SaaS, cloud, and
big data. These trends have led to an increase in the number
of IT projects government is expected to deliver. Few of
these changes have been met with a corresponding increase
in IT budget, forcing government IT teams to do more with
less.
WHY GOVERNMENT MUST CHANGE ITS IT
OPERATING MODEL
In our experience, addressing the spiraling growth of IT
projects in government requires the development of two
new capabilities that are currently unmet by status quo
approaches.
1. Accelerated project delivery driven by reusable
assets and shared services. To address the growing IT
project delivery gap in government, agencies must stop
“reinventing the wheel” with each incremental project,
and instead, seek to build and leverage shared services.
Traditional architectural approaches centered around
point-to-point integration are unable to fulfill these
needs. Without reusing integration work across projects,
or across agencies, governments are unable to increase
the speed at which they can deliver projects without
adding incremental staffing. Limited budgets typically
rule this out as a tenable option. Furthermore, point-to-
point integration creates architectural brittleness over
time, making the agencies less flexible and adaptive to
change. It also creates a dependence on legacy systems,
increasing maintenance costs and reducing budget for
innovation and net new projects.
2. Secure data exchange within and outside agencies.
More than ever, agencies have to coordinate together in
order to provide quality citizen experiences and deliver
on their mission. The inability for agencies to access each
others’ data in a fast and secure manner often constrains
them from efficiently and cost-effectively delivering IT
projects.
Point-to-point integration also fails to address secure
data exchange across agencies, as it does not provide for
high-level visibility into how data is accessed. Consider:
every agency has its own security policies that need
to be enforced before allowing any exchange of data.
Furthermore, multiple stores (e.g. LDAPs, databases,
Identity Management Systems) need to be used for
authenticating and authorizing the requests. In addition,
agencies have to comply with heightened government
data security requirements. Without central governance
for data security or compliance, it becomes difficult to
trace security breaches or audit sensitive data access.
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BEYOND POINT-TO-POINT:
LEVERAGING REUSABLE MICROSERVICES TO INCREASE IT PROJECT DELIVERY IN
GOVERNMENT
As we will show below, moving beyond point-to-point connectivity requires an approach centered around
the development of connectivity assets that are both reusable across different projects and contexts, and
discoverable by the teams that need them. In our experience, enabling that approach requires that monolithic
services be broken down into smaller, constituent microservices. Agencies that employ this approach
simultaneously realize greater project delivery speed and security, but only if they do so in such a way that
drives reuse of these microservices across the enterprise.
DEFINING MICROSERVICES WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF GOVERNMENT
In government, it’s common for key data, services, and applications to be siloed within legacy systems. Making
changes to the applications running on these systems can be a monumental undertaking spanning months,
or even years - strangling agility and increasing costs. Because of this, many have started to explore ways to
modernize these systems. Microservices represent one of the most promising avenues for innovation.
For the purposes of this whitepaper, we define a microservice has having four distinct components:
• An API contract that exposes and governs standardized access to the microservice in a way that promotes
loose coupling between distinct microservices.
• Business logic flows that route, enrich, transform, aggregate, or otherwise processes data.
• Connectivity that can expose data or services in a manner that is agnostic to the end-consuming
application or system.
• A distinct runtime engine that executes the microservice.
A microservices architecture, in concert with modern
cloud deployment, API management, and integration
technologies, provides a novel approach to software
development which avoids the challenges of software
delivery associated with monolithic applications. Under
this architectural paradigm, the monolith is “broken
up” into a set of independent microservices that are
developed, deployed, maintained and consumed
separately.
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Many agencies have prioritized legacy modernization
as a means of increasing IT agility and capabilities while
reducing costs. APIs provide a highly effective means of
doing so, enabling secure access to legacy systems in a
way that maintains system integrity and abstracts away the
complexity of these systems from their underlying data and
services. One agency MuleSoft worked with leveraged this
approach to anchor an initiative designed to provide access
to hundreds of disparate government services from a single
platform. To power this initiative, the agency used APIs to
expose data and services from legacy systems spanning
across over 40 different government departments to a front-
end application built on the Salesforce platform.
This API-led approach has conferred a number of benefits.
In addition to enabling one-stop-shop access to different
services, using APIs to unlock data from legacy systems has
enabled the agency to digitize and automate services that
previously required manual interaction across different state
agencies. This resulted in an 50% increase in the number of
digitally delivered services. Furthermore, this approach has
paved a way towards migrating off of many legacy systems
that were approaching end-of-life, leading to further IT cost
reductions. Last but not least - governing access to sensitive
citizen data through APIs instead of through point-to-point
code bolstered the overall security of the platform.
According to the IT director responsible for the project,
“using MuleSoft and taking an API-led approach to our
overall architecture was critical. MuleSoft has provided us
with a robust and flexible platform that not only supports
our current activities but allows us to extend them over
time. Their tools are an integral part of our entire operation.”
By unlocking these systems with APIs, the director and his
team plan on continuing to accelerate digital service delivery,
with a goal of increasing the number of digitally delivered
services by an additional 40% over the next 3 years.
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT:
ANONYMOUS AUSTRALIAN STATE AGENCY
USING API-LED CONNECTIVITY TO MODERNIZE LEGACY SYSTEMS
INCREASING PROJECT DELIVERY SPEED WITH A MICROSERVICES ARCHITECTURE
A microservice architecture aligns with the business in such a way that changes to the agency - whether they be the
passage of new laws or the introduction of new technologies - can be dealt with in an agile fashion. Business processes and
transactions are automated with the composition of microservices. When processes are changed or when new ones are
introduced, IT can quickly respond by re-wiring services into new compositions, instead of picking out code from a monolithic
application to adapt to modern requirements. This accelerates the speed at which IT can execute on individual projects.
Microservices architectures also enable accelerated project delivery across the agency by facilitating easier reuse. Within
government, there are many tasks like provisioning of hardware and software that are both repetitive, and common across
agencies. Because of this, asset reuse can produce enormous IT productivity gains. Yet, today, limited re-use is realized across
monolithic applications. These applications, by definition, hide their internals.
In contrast, microservices promote reuse by exposing their functionality through a standardized API contract that any
project team can leverage without needing to understand the underlying business logic of the microservice. In addition,
as a function of their smaller scope, microservices can be used across a much larger variety of projects and business
contexts. Furthermore, by decoupling services from their end consumers, multiple project teams from different domains can
implement microservices with their own choice of technology, yet remain aligned with the broader mission of the agency,
encouraging project teams to reuse existing microservices instead of building their own.
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IT challenges facing State Departments of Labor have been
well documented, with a 2013 report commissioned by the
GAO highlighting that these departments “face a number
of challenges in updating their aging legacy systems and
moving program operations to a modern web-based IT
environment.” Indeed, core IT processes managed by State
Labor Departments, from determining benefit eligibility, to
calculating benefit amounts, to processing tax adjustments,
are often dependent on large monolithic applications written
in COBOL and hosted on a mainframe.
Such monolithic applications strangle agility and increase
costs in a number of ways. Few developers hold the skillset
required to work with these dated systems, creating skill
bottlenecks whenever the code needs to be modified in
response to legislative changes. For example, whenever
the law changed the unemployment tax rate, or the length
unemployment benefits would be extended for, or the
amount that unemployment recipients would receive,
developers needed to unpick and make substantial
changes to the underlying code governing the application.
Furthermore, the systems themselves were difficult to pull
data from, making satisfying federal reporting requirements
a time-intensive and costly process. Last not but least, these
systems are extremely expensive to maintain, sucking away
scarce budgetary resources away from innovation.
Recently, MuleSoft began a long-term engagement with a
State Department of Labor to help them migrate from two
monolithic applications - “Benefits System” and “Tax System”
- to a microservices-based approach that would reduce
costs, eliminate developer skill bottlenecks, and increase
project delivery speed.
The department and MuleSoft designed a three-phase
approach toward their migration:
• Phase 1 - COBOL code is migrated to Java. This approach
keeps the user interface layer running as is, and migrates
the persistence layer to a relational database with one big
database object representing equivalent files.
• Phase 2 - Database Objects are normalized into business
entities. These are designed to be accessed by the UI
layer through a set of APIs (services). This paves the way
for abstraction and removes hard coupling. Additionally,
these system APIs will be governed through a set of
security policies.
• Phase 3 - Process and experience APIs are created to
provide services at the “Business Domain Level”.
Modernization of the Department of Labor’s COBOL
Mainframe Systems through a microservices architecture
will allow the department to sidestep the challenges facing
their peers in other states. Their end vision is for this new
architecture to provide them with the ability to make
changes to parts of the application without impacting others,
as well as faster project delivery speed through reuse of
services, and improved governance via secured access to
services.
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT:
ANONYMOUS STATE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
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Unemployment Insurance Information Technology: States Face Challenges in Modernization Efforts
LEVERAGING MICROSERVICES TO INCREASE OPERATIONAL AGILITY
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LEVERAGING MICROSERVICES TO ENABLE SECURE DATA EXCHANGE WITHIN AND ACROSS AGENCIES
Historically, government IT teams have had to grapple with balancing the agility conferred by opening up access to systems
and the need to secure the underlying data. As the complexity of agency missions grows, secure data sharing has grown in
importance. Increasingly, key government IT initiatives span across multiple agencies, who must effectively coordinate and
share data in order to execute on the broader mission. Data security has been a consistent roadblock stymying this type of
data sharing, as each agency wants full control over their own data.
Furthermore, security itself has grown in complexity due to the proliferation of applications that have entered the agency IT
ecosystem. Each new app requires and enables access to organizational data and assets, and unless the security team was
explicitly involved in the app’s creation, acquisition and delivery, users inside and outside the organization may have access to
data and the ability to expose it without the knowledge of central IT. While microservices architectures can clearly accelerate
the sharing of data within and outside the agency, some have concerns that, by expanding the number of services that need
to be governed, microservices could ostensibly complicate security.
Based on our experience working across different government agencies, what we’ve found is that the API contract intrinsic
to the microservice allows agencies to have the best of both worlds, supporting increased project delivery speed without
compromising security. Consider: with a microservices architecture, each microservices can be exposed via an API that serves
as a standardized, well-defined entry point that is easy to visualize and secure. Because of this, API policies can be applied to
securing these APIs, thereby governing access to the underlying microservice data.
Common API policies we’ve seen used across government agencies include, but are not limited to:
• Security policies (e.g. authentication, authorization, LDAP security, encryption)
• Compliance policies (e.g. CORS enabled)
• Quality of service policies (e.g. throttling, rate limiting)
These and other API policies counter-balance the general goals of the microservice architecture to expose business
capabilities across every user channel by placing restrictions on what or how much is exposed on any one channel, but in
a way that does not significantly hamper agility in the process. In doing so, they enable secure sharing of data within and
outside the agency.
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When the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2009, Colorado
elected to be one of the 17 states to create their own health
insurance marketplace instead of using federal systems.
They also opted into Medicaid expansion, increasing the
number of public health insurance applications that needed
to be processed. To process the oncoming influx of new
Medicaid applications, the State of Colorado had 6 months
to build a new integrated system to process applications
online. As part of their “Cloud First” initiative, the project IT
team decided to develop the application on Salesforce.
The project presented a number of connectivity challenges
that necessitated a new approach. Since the application
was being developed on in the cloud, the State of Colorado
needed a robust, hybrid integration platform to bridge
across between cloud and various on-premise systems,
such as the agency’s legacy Benefit Management System.
Furthermore, the application necessitated secure data
sharing across multiple state and federal agencies, including
the Social Security Administration and the Department of
Homeland Security, each of whom holds key data needed
to make a Medicaid eligibility determination. Last but not
least, they needed that platform to accelerate developer
productivity so the project could be delivered on time and
within budget.
MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform was chosen as the integration
backbone to enable secure communication with other
critical systems and increase developer productivity. Using
the Salesforce connector, developers easily connected their
new eligibility portal with other key on-premise and cloud
systems required to support the Medicaid application and
determination process. This developer-first experience,
combining out-of-the-box functionality, reusable integration
templates and graphical data mapping capability enabled
developers to be productive almost immediately.
Furthermore, MuleSoft enabled the State of Colorado to
pivot from a point-to-point integration approach to one
centered reusable APIs, which accelerated their project
delivery speed and enabled more effective secure data
sharing outside the State. As Michael Brown, Deputy CTO
highlighted, “Before using MuleSoft, all of our integrations
were point-to-point, and that was problematic because we
were having to do things the same way over and over again.
With MuleSoft, we’re able to leverage the technology in a
way that allows us to not have to reinvent the wheel, and
that’s very important to us because of the limited resources
that a state government has.”
As a result of these newfound productivity gains, Colorado’s
new Medicaid eligibility platform was launched on-time
and more than 277,000 applications were processed by the
system, enabling Colorado citizens to receive health care
benefits during the first 6 months of health care reform.
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT:
STATE OF COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
DRIVING MEDICAID EXPANSION BY USING APIS TO SECURELY SHARE DATA ACROSS AGENCIES
Reference Architecture, State of Colorado DHS Medicaid
Application Platform
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API-LED CONNECTIVITY ENABLES THE SUCCESSFUL ADOPTION OF MICROSERVICE REUSE
Even after decomposing a monolithic application into constituent microservices, many of the benefits of this approach are
lost if IT does not provide the means for these services to be accessed and reused across the enterprise.
To maximize the impact of microservice reuse, we propose a three-tiered model of system, process, and experience APIs to
enable agility while minimizing disruption to core systems.
In the above architecture, system APIs or system-level microservices are in line with the concept of an autonomous service
which has been designed with enough abstraction to hide the underlying systems of record. None of these system details are
leaked through the API. The responsibility of the API is discrete and agnostic to any particular business process.
Process APIs allow IT to orchestrate data from various systems into distinct services or business objects that can be reused
within or outside the agency.
Further agility in the architecture is provided by experience APIs which are geared towards a specific set of users. For
example, if an agency wanted to add mobile support to a pre-existing desktop application, they would simply need to create a
mobile experience API that calls the process APIs shared by the desktop application.
Using APIs to expose microservices to a broader audience transforms IT into a platform that allows disparate project teams
across the agency to self-serve, increasing the speed at which they can deliver on projects in support of the agency’s mission
by eliminating the re-work typically associated with point-to-point integration. Over the long term, the inherent decoupling of
systems this approach also facilitates increased agility, since changes to employee or citizen-facing edge applications are not
gated by changes to antiquated legacy mainframe systems.
API-led connectivity
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In the US, State Departments of Transportation (DoT) have
jurisdiction over public transportation and associated
infrastructure. Due to the sheer number of assets they
have to manage, many are increasing their investments in
IoT solutions. One State DoT partnered with MuleSoft to
build an innovative IoT solution to provide more responsive
road maintenance, powered by a composable architecture
centered around APIs.
The state in question is prone to frequent snowstorms and
blizzards, and when storms hit, the State DoT is in charge of
deploying snowplows to clear the roads. In order to improve
the speed at which they could clear roads, they decided to
build a portal to provide snowplow dispatchers with real-
time data from citizen complaint systems, weather trackers,
and other key systems.
At first, they tried to tackle this project with custom point-to-
point code. This approach quickly became unmanageable,
due to the need to write code for each additional snowplow
and tracker added to the system. They turned to Mulesoft to
implement a more scalable approach. With MuleSoft, they
enabled real-time automatic vehicle location (AVL) updates
from Zonar, a fleet management system, through a REST
API call. These AVL updates are pushed to backend systems,
which subsequently supply data to the dispatch team
and citizen-facing applications. By reusing the same core
integration assets across each snowplow brought online,
they have significantly reduced program maintenance costs
and improved developer productivity.
Due to the increase in project delivery speed conferred by
MuleSoft, the department is now able to take on additional
projects with the same amount of resource. For example,
the department is now exploring an API strategy that would
expose data to external applications like Google, Uber, and
Waze to supply them with real-time updates on scheduled
road repairs, traffic, and accidents. In accordance with
the principles of API-led connectivity, each of these end-
consumers would call the same APIs, eliminating the need
for the agency to hard-code integrations to these external
partners. This is the first of many new initiatives the agency
is planning on implementing with their newfound agility.
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT:
ANONYMOUS STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
LEVERAGING API-LED CONNECTIVITY TO ACCELERATE IOT DEPLOYMENT
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ANYPOINT PLATFORM:
THE SOLUTION FOR ENABLING API-LED MICROSERVICES ARCHITECTURES IN GOVERNMENT
Forward-thinking agencies’ success with API-led architectures shows that the challenges facing government IT are by no
means insurmountable. By using APIs to unlock, decompose, and govern access to legacy systems, government agencies can
accelerate IT project delivery speed, enabling them to better deliver on their mission. MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform is uniquely
suited to supporting this type of IT transformation.
KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:
One unified platform for microservices and API-led connectivity
MuleSoft marries the integration and API lifecycle management capabilities needed to realize API-led connectivity on a single
runtime. This simplifies the adoption of API-led connectivity in government, contrasted with cobbling together the capabilities
needed across different platforms.
End-to-end support for the API and microservice lifecycle
MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform natively supports the ability for IT to design, collaborated on, build, test, deploy, publish, and
manage APIs. It also provides a ‘single pane of glass’ management UI from which they can manage the microservice runtime,
its constituent APIs, and its messaging endpoints.
Ubiquitous connectivity
With a library of over 140+ connectors, MuleSoft supports the ability to rapidly connect to any source of data residing
within an agency, whether it be a legacy mainframe or IBM i system, or a modern cloud application. This enables the rapid
implementation of the API building blocks that anchor an API-led architecture.
Write once, deploy anywhere: on-premise, or in the cloud
As government IT transitions to the cloud, MuleSoft provides a hybrid deployment environment that allows agencies and
bureaus to manage their entire suite of integrations across cloud and on-premise systems from a single management plane.
This provides government IT teams with a long-term solution to design applications that best meet citizens’ needs without
being tied to a specific deployment environment.
Pre-defined policies to accelerate secure data sharing
MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform enables agency administrators to enforce governance through the use of out-of-the-box
policies, or the creation of new policies. These policies can be applied to any service coming out of an agency without making
any configuration changes to the service itself.
Complete visibility into data-flow within and outside the agency
Anypoint Platform enables full control of data movement within and outside the agency, and provides a comprehensive view
of this data movement for government IT security personnel. It also enables consistent policy enforcement, with auditing and
analytics available for every data call coming from within or outside the agency.
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MULESOFT:
THE CONNECTIVITY PLATFORM FOR GOVERNMENT
The unique constraints government IT must grapple with - a preponderance of legacy systems, a confined budget,
heightened data security requirements - should not serve as a roadblock hindering mission execution. By leveraging APIs
and microservices as a foundation of an IT strategy centered around shared services and asset reuse, governments can
meet, and even exceed the private sector in the quality of service it provides citizens.
ABOUT MULESOFT
MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform is trusted by over 1000 enterprises worldwide including over 10 US federal civilian and
defense agencies, and is the only vendor to be named a Leader in both the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Lifecycle API
Management and the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS).