BRIEFING
2014
The ongoing cloud revolution changes dramatically IT business. There is an ever growing need
for cost effective, agile, business-oriented solutions to keep in pace with a constantly &
quickly changing business environment.
2
Simplicité® ?
Mission statement
improving the TTM
• 10 weeks on average in
2013
• a deterioration expected
by third of CIOs for 2014 improving the alignment
between applications and real
user requirements
reducing licensing and
operating costs
80 % of the budget on applications
maintenance in 2013
Simplicité is a versatile aPaaS platform designed to help IT professionals to
deliver custom strategic enterprise applications to their clients. It is a
comprehensive solution to the IT challenges by :
3
Why Simplicité® ?
Business efficiency is a matter of agility AND robustness
Core business data is shared
and used everywhere
A real life comprehensive information system always tends to complexity but
still requires business agility :
Business challenges and constraints
constantly generate new IT
requirements & changes
Global vision, data availability, efficient
integration and high operation
reliability are key to business
4
Why Simplicité® ?
Cloud revolution impact on enterprise IT
(*) Glue = BI, BPM, ETL, ESB, … (*) Glue = Big data, cloud BPM, …
Business
software
customizations
& extension
Glue*
Bespoke
devt
Onpremise SaaS
aPaaS
Glue*
Devt
PaaS
Inthecloud
Yesterday’s business
requirement coverage
Today’s & tomorrow
business requirement
coverage
The “hidden part of the
iceberg”
Front Office
BackOffice
APIs
5
What is Simplicité® ?
Simplicité® platform’s DNA
Universal &
collaborative
Business
oriented &
model-driven
Configuration
based &
extensible(**)
Lightweight,
reliable &
scalable
Agile & cost-
effective
Not Only
cloud(*)
(*) Also available for
on-premise hosting
(**) Using industry standards
6
What is Simplicité® ?
Competitive advantages
Not only
cloud
Small footprint and
highly scalable
when required
Virtually run on any
Java-enabled
infrastructure
(on premise,
public/private/hybrid
clouds, JEE PaaS, …)
Open and
extensible
Standard
integration
facilities, APIs and
services (remote
systems & big data)
Extensible meta-
model & advanced
configurations/imple
mentations
One click packaging
and deployment
Easy reversibility on
business models &
data
Industry
standards
UML-like modeling
HTML5/Ajax at UIs
level
Java at engine level
Standard JEE
platform
Unified
End-to-end ALM
(Application lifecycle
management)
BAM (Business
Activity Monitoring)
Cost-effective
Try and buy
SandBox
Pay-as-you-go
Cloud model for
usage
Significantly
reduced TTM (Up to
10 times )
7
What is Simplicité® ?
Solution landscape
Consultants
Developpers
Operators
Business analysts
& designers
SaaS
aPaaS
PaaS
IaaS
Cloud stack
8
Who is Simplicité® ?
Clients and partners ecosystem
VAR
PaaS/IaaS
providers
Technologic
partners
9
Who is Simplicité® ?
Business cases
APPOINTMENT MANAGEMENT
 Availability Management & Previsions
 Appointment Workflows
 Call Center User administration
QUOTATION ENGINE
 Catalog and custom offerings management
 Quotation (from estimates to validation)
 Google Maps for geographical eligibility checks
 SID compliant Model
OFFER CATALOG & MARKETING PROCESSES
 Marketing processes for launching new offers
 Consolidated offer repository
 Fine grained access rights
 Integrated to offer management systems
ORDER MANAGEMENT
 Catalog management
 Compatibility /eligibility rules administration
 Back office order capture and validation
 Integrated to PeopleSoft OM system and other
third party systems
HOTLINE MANAGEMENT
 Contact management
 Monitor Back-office Interactions Workflow
 Integration with a Telephone Center (CTI)
 Operations Management
 Integrated with SAP reference data
HUMAN RESOURCES FUNCTION
 Management rules enforcement
 Manage yearly interviews
 Manage compensation, bonus and incentives
 Follow up training plans
FINANCIAL SIMULATION TOOL
 Multi users operational cost calculation
 Impact of bills calculation
 Assembly reports
INSURANCE EXPERTISE EXTRANET
 B2B users management
 Mission approval workflows
 Notifications alerts
 Missions documents repository
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
 Agreement workflows with IT service providers
 General & particular clauses
 Automation of contract edition
 Alerts on agreements expirations
TIME SHEET
 Time sheet capture
 Legal rules enforcement
 Validation workflows
 Integrated to legacy systems
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Who is Simplicité® for ?
Benefits (1/2)
End users
•Obtain full coverage of your actual business needs.
•Acheive true business agility, your enterprise applications evolve to reflect any change in your business
in the best time to market and at the right cost.
•Reach efficient social collaboration among your team.
•Increase your efficiency by using the generic mechanisms of the platform.
•Reduce your learning curve whenever your applications changes or integrates new business features.
•Actively participate to your applications projects by providing your requirement in real time and
sending feedback.
Business analysts & project managers
•Translate business requirement into detailed use case diagrams and requirement items.
•Manage applications versions functional scopes.
•Assign requirement implementation tasks to the application designers. Follow application delivery
process.
•Handle traceability between business requirements and configured items.
•Qualify end user feedback, monitor change requests and defect tickets.
•Design and run business test cases.
11
Who is Simplicité® for ?
Benefits (2/2)
Application designers
• Configure your logical data models in minutes with the help of the versatile graphical modeler.
• Add user profiles, fine grained rights and business rules.
• Design complex state models and activity business workflows.
• Extend behavior of you business objects and business processes to provide additionnal business logic.
• Develop additionnal internal custom pages, external user interfaces (web sites & mobile apps) taking
into account of all above business configuration.
• Integrate your application with other systems using various mechanisms (data adapters, remote &
service business objects.
Operators
• Monitor the platform technical parameters (memory usage, cache, logs, etc.).
• Monitor the application business key indicators and statistics.
• Manage user sessions, scheduled tasks, logs, data import/exports, etc.
• Anticipate usage changes and adapt resources accordingly
What to expect ?
• Launch of an app store
• Cloud BI & Big Data integration
• Out of the box connectors
• Google ecosystem integration
• Auto-scaling on public clouds
12
What’s next ?
2014-2015 roadmap
13
Simplicité’s management team
Executive Team
François GENESTIN
CEO
François has a IT services and
consulting background. He founded Simplicité Software based
on his field experience and research on model-driven
engineering.
David AZOULAY
CMO
David has a long experience as an architect on large scale &
strategic Information Systems. He is now in charge of Simplicité®
evangelism, pre sales and professional services.
Thomas REPOLT
Business Development Director
Thomas has begun his career as an engineer but has rapidly
turned towards sales. He now promotes Simplicité® among
partners as our channel manager and among clients.
Simplicité Software
71, boulevard Richard Lenoir
75011 Paris, France
www.simplicitesoftware.com
contact@simplicitesoftware.com
@SimpliciteSoftw
www.facebook.com/simplicitesoftware
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Si
mplicit%C3%A9-Software-3663198

Briefing Simplicité Software (English)

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  • 2.
    The ongoing cloudrevolution changes dramatically IT business. There is an ever growing need for cost effective, agile, business-oriented solutions to keep in pace with a constantly & quickly changing business environment. 2 Simplicité® ? Mission statement improving the TTM • 10 weeks on average in 2013 • a deterioration expected by third of CIOs for 2014 improving the alignment between applications and real user requirements reducing licensing and operating costs 80 % of the budget on applications maintenance in 2013 Simplicité is a versatile aPaaS platform designed to help IT professionals to deliver custom strategic enterprise applications to their clients. It is a comprehensive solution to the IT challenges by :
  • 3.
    3 Why Simplicité® ? Businessefficiency is a matter of agility AND robustness Core business data is shared and used everywhere A real life comprehensive information system always tends to complexity but still requires business agility : Business challenges and constraints constantly generate new IT requirements & changes Global vision, data availability, efficient integration and high operation reliability are key to business
  • 4.
    4 Why Simplicité® ? Cloudrevolution impact on enterprise IT (*) Glue = BI, BPM, ETL, ESB, … (*) Glue = Big data, cloud BPM, … Business software customizations & extension Glue* Bespoke devt Onpremise SaaS aPaaS Glue* Devt PaaS Inthecloud Yesterday’s business requirement coverage Today’s & tomorrow business requirement coverage The “hidden part of the iceberg” Front Office BackOffice APIs
  • 5.
    5 What is Simplicité®? Simplicité® platform’s DNA Universal & collaborative Business oriented & model-driven Configuration based & extensible(**) Lightweight, reliable & scalable Agile & cost- effective Not Only cloud(*) (*) Also available for on-premise hosting (**) Using industry standards
  • 6.
    6 What is Simplicité®? Competitive advantages Not only cloud Small footprint and highly scalable when required Virtually run on any Java-enabled infrastructure (on premise, public/private/hybrid clouds, JEE PaaS, …) Open and extensible Standard integration facilities, APIs and services (remote systems & big data) Extensible meta- model & advanced configurations/imple mentations One click packaging and deployment Easy reversibility on business models & data Industry standards UML-like modeling HTML5/Ajax at UIs level Java at engine level Standard JEE platform Unified End-to-end ALM (Application lifecycle management) BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) Cost-effective Try and buy SandBox Pay-as-you-go Cloud model for usage Significantly reduced TTM (Up to 10 times )
  • 7.
    7 What is Simplicité®? Solution landscape Consultants Developpers Operators Business analysts & designers SaaS aPaaS PaaS IaaS Cloud stack
  • 8.
    8 Who is Simplicité®? Clients and partners ecosystem VAR PaaS/IaaS providers Technologic partners
  • 9.
    9 Who is Simplicité®? Business cases APPOINTMENT MANAGEMENT  Availability Management & Previsions  Appointment Workflows  Call Center User administration QUOTATION ENGINE  Catalog and custom offerings management  Quotation (from estimates to validation)  Google Maps for geographical eligibility checks  SID compliant Model OFFER CATALOG & MARKETING PROCESSES  Marketing processes for launching new offers  Consolidated offer repository  Fine grained access rights  Integrated to offer management systems ORDER MANAGEMENT  Catalog management  Compatibility /eligibility rules administration  Back office order capture and validation  Integrated to PeopleSoft OM system and other third party systems HOTLINE MANAGEMENT  Contact management  Monitor Back-office Interactions Workflow  Integration with a Telephone Center (CTI)  Operations Management  Integrated with SAP reference data HUMAN RESOURCES FUNCTION  Management rules enforcement  Manage yearly interviews  Manage compensation, bonus and incentives  Follow up training plans FINANCIAL SIMULATION TOOL  Multi users operational cost calculation  Impact of bills calculation  Assembly reports INSURANCE EXPERTISE EXTRANET  B2B users management  Mission approval workflows  Notifications alerts  Missions documents repository CONTRACT MANAGEMENT  Agreement workflows with IT service providers  General & particular clauses  Automation of contract edition  Alerts on agreements expirations TIME SHEET  Time sheet capture  Legal rules enforcement  Validation workflows  Integrated to legacy systems
  • 10.
    10 Who is Simplicité®for ? Benefits (1/2) End users •Obtain full coverage of your actual business needs. •Acheive true business agility, your enterprise applications evolve to reflect any change in your business in the best time to market and at the right cost. •Reach efficient social collaboration among your team. •Increase your efficiency by using the generic mechanisms of the platform. •Reduce your learning curve whenever your applications changes or integrates new business features. •Actively participate to your applications projects by providing your requirement in real time and sending feedback. Business analysts & project managers •Translate business requirement into detailed use case diagrams and requirement items. •Manage applications versions functional scopes. •Assign requirement implementation tasks to the application designers. Follow application delivery process. •Handle traceability between business requirements and configured items. •Qualify end user feedback, monitor change requests and defect tickets. •Design and run business test cases.
  • 11.
    11 Who is Simplicité®for ? Benefits (2/2) Application designers • Configure your logical data models in minutes with the help of the versatile graphical modeler. • Add user profiles, fine grained rights and business rules. • Design complex state models and activity business workflows. • Extend behavior of you business objects and business processes to provide additionnal business logic. • Develop additionnal internal custom pages, external user interfaces (web sites & mobile apps) taking into account of all above business configuration. • Integrate your application with other systems using various mechanisms (data adapters, remote & service business objects. Operators • Monitor the platform technical parameters (memory usage, cache, logs, etc.). • Monitor the application business key indicators and statistics. • Manage user sessions, scheduled tasks, logs, data import/exports, etc. • Anticipate usage changes and adapt resources accordingly
  • 12.
    What to expect? • Launch of an app store • Cloud BI & Big Data integration • Out of the box connectors • Google ecosystem integration • Auto-scaling on public clouds 12 What’s next ? 2014-2015 roadmap
  • 13.
    13 Simplicité’s management team ExecutiveTeam François GENESTIN CEO François has a IT services and consulting background. He founded Simplicité Software based on his field experience and research on model-driven engineering. David AZOULAY CMO David has a long experience as an architect on large scale & strategic Information Systems. He is now in charge of Simplicité® evangelism, pre sales and professional services. Thomas REPOLT Business Development Director Thomas has begun his career as an engineer but has rapidly turned towards sales. He now promotes Simplicité® among partners as our channel manager and among clients.
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    Simplicité Software 71, boulevardRichard Lenoir 75011 Paris, France www.simplicitesoftware.com contact@simplicitesoftware.com @SimpliciteSoftw www.facebook.com/simplicitesoftware http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Si mplicit%C3%A9-Software-3663198