Better insight. Automated action. Despite technical debt.

JEFF VAIL
Chief Operating Officer
WGroup
TOM FOUNTAIN
Chief Technical Officer
Pneuron
Better insight.
Automated action.
DESPITE TECHNICAL DEBT.
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Today’s Presenters
Tom Fountain
CTO, Pneuron
Jeff Vail
COO, WGroup

It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...
It's the Fast That Eat the Slow
Jason Jennings and Laurence Haughton

Modernization
“Speed”
Themes
Cloud
Multi-Modal IT
Agile and DevOps
Automation

Unfortunate
Realities
Legacy
Infrastructure
Governance
Processes
Culture

Introducing

The Agenda
State of Enterprise Innovation
“Business-oriented” Architecture
A New Approach – Pneuron Platform
Mini Case Study
Resources
Q&A
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

How Does a Modern Business Innovate?
One must embrace the “Genius of the And”*…
balance centralized and distributed strategies which leverage
your core and emerging opportunities at the edge
What You Need: Centralized, Controlled
• Security, Controls
• Predictability
• Efficiency, Utilization
What You Want: Distributed, Dynamic
• New Business Models
• New Partners & Channels
• New Operating Models
What You Face: Disruption
• Hackers
• M&A
• Outsourcing
• Non-traditional competitors
What You Can Leverage: Digital Innovation
• Social
• Mobile
• Analytics
• Cloud
…and…
…and…
* Jim Collins, “Built to Last”, 1994
Innovation = Conceive, Design, Deploy, & Optimize with Speed, Agility & Low Cost
IT Business

The Need: An Evolution of Business Architecture
Traditional: Centralized Model
Centralization or homogenization precedes value creation,
demands costly pre-requisites, and fights today’s increasingly
distributed and diverse operating environment.
Pneuron: Fully Distributed Execution “Fabric”
Decompose and distribute all solution elements – access, analysis,
processing and control. Flexible, agile configuration and late
binding for rapidly evolving, complex and diverse environments.
Context: Wave I – ERP (Transactional); Wave II – Big Data (Analytical);
Wave III – Orchestration (Operational)

The Platform: Logical Design
Pneurons are a broad library of configurable, fully interoperable services sequenced to meet diverse functional & business needs
InteroperabilityAbstracts
Variations
Isolates Implementation &
Adaptation
Expansion & Customization
THE BENEFITS:
Query relational databases
Parse flat files / Excel
Leverage Application APIs
Execute Web Services calls
Encapsulate existing Java applications
InteractionPneurons
If-Then network branching
Multi-branch workflow routing
Apply native (Apache math
library) or imported mathematical
routines
Apply any of 60+ built-in (or user
imported) matching algorithms
Import / execute existing PMML-
based predictive models
AnalyticsPneurons
Write specified content into
relational databases
Write specified files to an FTP site
Publish XML messages to a JMS queue
Allows specified content to be emailed
Facilitates creation of new
Pneurons with user-specified
functionality
OutputPneurons

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Multi-Tab Display
Allows projects or networks to be
managed on discrete tabs to
simplify presentation and usability.
Pneuron Library
Functionally segmented libraries of
capability-specific Pneurons available
for drag-and-drop selection.
Project / Platform Controls
Integrated menus and application-level
controls offer project, alias, variables,
and administrative functionality.
Key Functionality:
1. Project Import / Export to
provide archive and
migration support
2. Access to Alias Management
to create credentialed
connections to underlying
sources
3. Definition of shared User
Variables and SQL
statements for re-use across
projects
4. Integrated Debug capability
for development support
5. Integrated Project execution
The Platform: Logical Design
Design Studio is a web-based, visual configuration environment to
design and deploy “networks” (intelligent workflows)
Canvas
Call or encapsulate existing
applications or functions as
interoperable network components.
Fully Permissioned Agile DeliveryAccessibility Visual Configuration
THE BENEFITS:

THE BENEFITS:
The Cortex “containerizes” multiple technologies to
dramatically simplify solution architecture and deployment
The Platform: Physical Deployment
Key Features:
1. Server-based main Java program aligned with Java, JDK,
messaging, and web services
2. Runs in a JVM and is deployed on the target host
server or VM
3. Hosted within the available capacity of existing servers,
dedicated server(s), or to available cloud capacity
4. Receives and processes self-describing XML messages
within durable message queues for inter-node
communications
5. Dynamically manages both vertical and horizontal
scalability by matching load with available capacity
6. Implements HA and performance management
functions via dynamic clustering
7. Offers a full suite of Management APIs for authorized
external control
Multiple Technologies, One Platform High Availability Dynamic Scaling Feature-Rich

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THE BENEFITS:
The Platform: Physical Deployment
Pneuron’s distributed deployment aligns processing
requirements to available capacity and operating
constraints
Any Mix of Servers Rapidly (Re)Configurable Privacy / Processing Options On-Premise, Cloud, or Hosted

Use Case Example: Anti-Money Laundering Investigation
Current State: Manually intensive workflows lack the
consistency, productivity, and scalability to meet escalating
regulatory and business requirements
Future State: Automated, consistent, and scalable workflows
provide the consistency and productivity to meet escalating
volumes, regulatory review, and improvement objectives
Platform Deployed, Solution Configured, and Results Delivered in 4 weeks…50% reduction in
investigation cycle times

Extraordinary Results

Pneuron: Bringing Innovation to Life
Pneuron sits at the intersection of Business and IT
By seamlessly orchestrating to apps, infra and databases inside and outside the
enterprise, users can innovate with unrivaled agility, speed and control
Hybrid
Deployment
Take advantage of
resources inside and
outside the 4 walls of
the enterprise
Best of Both
Worlds
Take advantage of
legacy systems and
new apps, services,
infra and databases
Continually
Innovate
Rapidly bring to life
new elements of your
business solution
The Win-Win
Enable
successful
partnership
between IT and
Business

Pneuron: Recommended Resources
Innovation – Analyst Points of View
• Gartner: Building a Sustainable Innovation Process and
Culture Primer for 2016
https://www.gartner.com/doc/3188955/building-sustainable-
innovation-process-culture
• Gartner: Three Questions Leaders Should Ask
About Innovation
http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/three-questions-
leaders-should-ask-about-innovation/
Pneuron Platform – Architecture & Technology
• Microservices & Containers
http://pages.pneuron.com/microservices-and-containers-a-
pneuron-perspective.html
• Meeting the Demands of Today’s Innovation Economy
http://pages.pneuron.com/the-pneuron-distributed-platform-a-
new-paradigm.html
• Request a Demo
http://pages.pneuron.com/schedule-a-demo.html
Pneuron In the News & Points of View
• Three Trends Driving Digital Business Innovation
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/11/16/three-trends-driving-digital-business-innovation/
• What if We’ve Got Big Data and Analytics All Wrong?
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/tech-buzz/83656.html

Top 25 Companies
the World Needs
to Know About
Pneuron: Unique, Powerful, Innovative
“One of the most
intriguing enterprise
products in a long time.”
-Mark Gibbs
“Quite unlike anything I
have ever seen.”
Top Enterprise
Innovation of 2014
“Pneuron’s technology is
bloody brilliant. Really.”
“Jaw dropping.”
-Doug Laney
Top Company to
Watch in 2016
“Exquisite….truly
game changing.”
-Robin Bloor
Break-Out Company
of 2016: Business
Orchestration

Smart Steps Forward
No need for a new organization
No need for a massive investment
No need for a major tech overhaul
(No pain)

Getting Started: Treat innovation as a process.
Concept
Development
Idea
Evaluate
Impact
Pilot Launch
Idea Collection
(By Theme) Idea Shortlist
Pilot Business
Case Development
Pilot Test Rollout
LEARNING
VALUE
CRITERIA TOP
10% COMMITTEE
REVIEW EXECUTIVE
DECISION

Manage Innovation Like a Business (COE Model)
4. Quality
Assurance and
Continuous
Improvement
Cycles
1. Requests for improvement reviews
PROCESS CONTROLLERS
Schedule Monitor Handle Expectations
SOLUTION DEVELOPMENT
Define Design Configure Verify
IT INFRASTRUCTURE & GOVERNANCE
2. Approved projects
3. Process goes “live”
Business
Units
Blueprints &
Component Library
Center of Excellence
Jointly owned by
Business & IT

You are the
catalyst for
change!

Discussion
JEFF VAIL
Chief Operating Officer
WGroup
TOM FOUNTAIN
Chief Technical Officer
Pneuron

Contact Us
Tom Fountain
Chief Technology Officer, Pneuron
Jeff Vail
Chief Operating Officer, WGroup
C 610 805 9659 | O 610-854-2700 | F 610 854 2705
150 North Radnor Chester Rd, Suite A230
Radnor, PA 19087
jvail@thinkwgroup.com
C 973-723-6405 | O 877-557-2743
404 5th Ave., 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10018
thomas.fountain@pneuron.com

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