MultiValue Gets SaaS-y

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MultiValue Gets SaaS-y
Vinnie Smith, Senior Director MV Lab

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Credits and Acknowledgements
Presenter
• Vinnie Smith, Senior Director, MultiValue R&D
Developers
• Vinnie Smith, Senior Director, MultiValue R&D
• John Bramley, Senior Director, MultiValue R&D
©2015 Rocket Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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MultiValue Gets SaaS-y
 The Cloud offers great opportunity for disruption in the business world by
offering ways to create, test, and deploy applications with greater reach
and more simplicity than ever before. Come learn about the Cloud and
how Rocket MV is helping you get SaaS-y with capabilities such as
Account Based Licensing, RESTful APIs, and micro-services.

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Agenda
Cloud computing and terminology
• Knowing your aaS’s
Rocket MV SaaS enablement
• Development
• Deployment
• Security
• Business models
Next steps to getting SaaS-y

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Cloud Computing and Terminology

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I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down
And still somehow
It’s cloud illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds …. At all
Joni Mitchell - 1969

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Cloud computing is a model for enabling
convenient, on-demand network access to a
shared pool of configurable computing resources
(e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications,
and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and
released with minimal management effort or
service provider interaction
NIST Definition of Cloud Computing

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On-demand self-service
Broad network access
Resource pooling
Rapid elasticity
Measured service
Characteristics of Cloud Computing

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Cloud Deployment – Not One Thing
Private
• Single organization
• Multiple consumers
• On/Off premises
Public
• Unlimited
organizations
• Public consumers
• Operated by
business,
government, or
academia
Community
• Multiple
organizations,
shared goal or
objective
• On/Off premises
Hybrid
• Multiple
services
• Composite
service

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Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a Service
Software as a Service
IaaS/PaaS/SaaS
Service Models (AKA Knowing Your aaS’s)

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The capability provided to the consumer is to provision
processing, storage, networks, and other fundamental
computing resources where the consumer is able to
deploy and run arbitrary software, which can include
operating systems and applications. The consumer
does not manage or control the underlying cloud
infrastructure but has control over operating systems,
storage, and deployed applications; and possibly limited
control of select networking components (e.g., host
firewalls).
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

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The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy
onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or
acquired applications created using programming
languages, libraries, services, and tools supported by
the provider. The consumer does not manage or control
the underlying cloud infrastructure including network,
servers, operating systems, or storage, but has control
over the deployed applications and possibly
configuration settings for the application-hosting
environment
Platform as a Service (PaaS)

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The capability provided to the consumer is to use the
provider’s applications running on a cloud infrastructure.
The applications are accessible from various client
devices through either a thin client interface, such as a
web browser (e.g., web-based email), or a program
interface. The consumer does not manage or control the
underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers,
operating systems, storage, or even individual application
capabilities, with the possible exception of limited user
specific application configuration settings
Software as a Service (SaaS)

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Pros and Cons of Cloud for MultiValue
Pros
 Downplays the Data Server
question
 Lower cost of adoption and easier
go to Market
 Storage, scalability, backup,
mobility (access anywhere,
anytime)
 Faster product launches and
adoption of new versions
Cons
 Security concerns for confidential
data
 Integration of multiple cloud
offerings
 Authentication management on
multiple systems
 Coordination of hardware/OS
version with application
certification

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SaaS for MV - in Context
SaaS
Uses application/service for business process operations
The application is centrally hosted
Salesforce.com, Netflix, Google Apps,
Apps, CRM, email, games
End Users
Web browsers, mobile apps/browser
mobile phones, tablets, laptops, desktops
PaaS
Develops, tests, deploys, and manages applications hosted in a cloud system
Software development stack is hosted
IBM BlueMix, Cloud Foundry, Google App Engine, Force.com,
Ancestry.com
IaaS
Creates/installs, manages, and monitors services for IT infrastructure
operations
VMs, Servers, storage, network is hosted
IBM SoftLayer, Amazon Web Services
SaaS
MV Solution
PaaS
MV Data server,
webserver
IaaS
Own or Cloud Vendor
managed infrastructure

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Where Are Most People in SaaS
Don’t be a
lamplighter
Gartner, Inc. July 22, 2015, Five Ways Cloud Can Transform Your Business, Michelle Cantara

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First demonstration
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SaaS Enablement Areas
• Licensing
• Metering/Billing
• SaaS models
• Metrics
• ID management
• Data protection
• Audit
• Compliance
• Pro(de)visioning
• Monitoring /
Load Balancing
• DevOps
• Multi-Tenancy
• Cloud-based
development
and testing
• Cloud
application
access
Development Deployment
Business
Models
Security

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Rocket MV SaaS Enablement
• SaaS Licensing
• SaaS models
• Rocket
BusinessConnect
• License Manager
• [Metering/Billing]
• Automatic Data
Encryption
• Audit Logging
• Account-Based
Licensing
• [Authentication]
• Aldon Lifecycle
Manager
• NetCure MV
• [Provisioning]
• Webshares
• IPv6
• MV REST
• REST-based API
• Rocket Mobile
• [MV Integration
Server]
Development Deployment
Business
Models
Security
[R&D activity]
These statements represent Rocket Software’s current intentions. Rocket development plans are subject to change or withdrawal without further notice.
Any reliance on these statements is at the relying party’s sole risk and will not create any liability or obligation for Rocket

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Business Models
Business
Models

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Licensing – SaaS Models
Total Subscribers 50 150 300 500
New Subscribers 50 100 150 200
Revenue Year1 Year2 Year3 Year4
SaaS Lifetime $4,794 $19,176 $47,940 $95,880 $143,820
Traditional Lifetime $48,975 $56,305 $63,635 $70,965 $78,295
$-
$20,000
$40,000
$60,000
$80,000
$100,000
$120,000
$140,000
$160,000
SaaS
Business
Models
 Metering
• Align to business model
 Offering
• Usage/Transaction/Capacity
Long-term yield is significantly higher

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MV Security
 Automatic Data Encryption
• Data protection in a multi-tenant environment
 Audit Logging
• Log changes to data at row level
 Authorization
• SSL
 Authentication
• Single-Sign On
• [Role-based security]
• [OpenID for authentication management]
Security

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Account-Based Licensing
Account-Based Licensing – lets you control how many
license are consumed on a per account basis to make
it easier to simulate multi-tenancy in a SaaS
environment
• Implemented in Rocket® UniData 8.1 and Rocket® UniVerse
11.2
• [D3 R&D]
Security

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What Is Account-Based Licensing ?
Account-based licensing allows an administrator to define
an account or a group of accounts as a ‘logical account’
and allows U2 to control the license usage within them
• The total number of available licenses can then be sub-divided
between these logical accounts
 The total number of seats assigned to the logical accounts cannot exceed
the overall number of licenses
• The balance of any unassigned seats will be assigned to a ‘default’
logical account
• Assists in multi-tenancy offering
Security

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What Benefits Does It Bring?
For sites that are provisioning multiple customer applications on
one machine, the overall license count can easily be divided
among those applications without having to add any checks to
the application
If there are multiple environments on the same machine, such as
Test, Development, or Training, then the environments could
become logical accounts and allow the licenses to be divided
between the environments
A single account can be defined as a logical account with a single
license to ensure that a license seat is always available. This is
often done for administration purposes
Security

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Aldon Lifecycle Manager
 Manage your application
development and deployment
 Available today for UniVerse and
UniData
• [D3 in QA]
 Integrated with Editors, Rocket®
wIntegrate, and Rocket® SB/XA
• Rocket® U2 Web DE integration
underway
 Main interest in deployment of
applicationsThese statements represent Rocket Software’s current intentions. Rocket development
plans are subject to change or withdrawal without further notice.
Any reliance on these statements is at the relying party’s sole risk and will not create any
liability or obligation for Rocket

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MVCure
Monitor MV
instance
UV v11.3.1
[UDT/D3 R&D]
These statements represent Rocket Software’s current intentions. Rocket development
plans are subject to change or withdrawal without further notice.
Any reliance on these statements is at the relying party’s sole risk and will not create any
liability or obligation for Rocket

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Provisioning [R&D]
Ability to spin-up instance
• Integrated with Rocket BusinessConnect
• Automated metering and SaaS model support
Rapidly manage user resources
• Dynamic provisioning of user resources
 Increase/decrease users automagically
• Configure features
 Add/remove or manage dynamically

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MV REST API Tooling
Build RESTful APIs into your MV applications
• Easily consumed from
any HTTP-capable
device, language, or
framework
• Direct data access and
subroutine-based access
• Customized REST API
based on your
application’s needs
Development

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MV REST Tool Integration
SB/XA 6.2
• REST interface to Processes, File and field definitions
• Preserve and reuse existing application logic
U2 Web DE 5.2
• Exposure of RedBack Objects (RBOs) via REST
• Drag/drop RBOs into REST Tool
Easily build and consume via Rocket Mobile
• Rocket Mobile understands MV REST services
• Active Beta underway now for U2 and D3
• MVU application built with Rocket® Mobile and MV REST

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Rocket® Mobile for MultiValue
Development

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Cloud and Mobile Unification
The application is in the cloud
Cloud coordinates everything and system of record
Seamless delivery and consumption
Clients are multi-faceted
• Different devices/form factors
• Users consume application across multiple clients
• Mobile is more than just phones
Development

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MV Cloud-based DevOps (R&D)
 Converge multiple app dev tools into single offering
 Load-balancing reusing webshare architecture for scalability
 MV Provisioning and DevOPS Support
• RBC provisioning
• Docker containers/microservice support
• Support the Agile world for DevOps
 True multi-tenancy through new License Manager
• Solves the metering
 Which we will integrate with RBC to manage your billing
Development

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Next Steps – Getting SaaS-y

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Starting Your Cloud Application Strategy
IaaS
• Deployment model (Private/Hybrid)
• Vendor selection (multiple Cloud vendors @ MVU)
SaaS
• How much app to expose
 Move all of it to the Cloud
 Expose partially via web services or other refactoring
What business model to employ
• Map to your market

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Next Steps
 If you have already started implementing SaaS
• Talk to our Product Team about your experiences
• What challenges did you face/still face?
• Attend the MVU sessions on REST and Rocket Mobile
 If you haven’t started or just starting
• Need help with IaaS? Talk to MVU vendors
• Want to explore SaaS options?
 Talk to Rocket Sales or your Rocket MV Software Provider
• Lots of resources to study

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Additional Resources
 Other MVU sessions
• Wed 9 a.m. – Parlor F - Mobile Development Lab
• Wed 9 a.m. – Ely – MultiValue Security Overview
• Wed 10:25 a.m. – Ely – Create a Data Encryption Strategy
• Wed 4:15 p.m. – Elko – Managing the SSL Process
 National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST)
• http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs
 Links http://blog.rocketsoftware.com
• Rocket UniData 8.1 gets more SaaS-y: account-based licensing

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Summary
 Cloudy with skies clearing
 Focus on what benefits Cloud brings to
your solution
 Consider the landscape factors
• Development, Deployment, Security and
Business Models
 Rocket and MVU vendors can provide a
number of features to help with Cloud
 Stay tuned to Rocket for additional SaaS
Cloud and Mobile enablement capabilities

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Disclaimer
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS PRESENTATION IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.
WHILE EFFORTS WERE MADE TO VERIFY THE COMPLETENESS AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED
IN THIS PRESENTATION, IT IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
IN ADDITION, THIS INFORMATION IS BASED ON ROCKET SOFTWARE’S CURRENT PRODUCT PLANS AND STRATEGY,
WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE BY ROCKET SOFTWAREWITHOUT NOTICE.
ROCKET SOFTWARE SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF, OR
OTHERWISE RELATED TO, THIS PRESENTATION OR ANY OTHER DOCUMENTATION.
NOTHING CONTAINED IN THIS PRESENTATION IS INTENDED TO, OR SHALL HAVE THE EFFECT OF:
• CREATING ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION FROM ROCKET SOFTWARE(OR ITS AFFILIATES OR ITS OR
THEIR SUPPLIERS AND/OR LICENSORS); OR
• ALTERING THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE APPLICABLE LICENSE AGREEMENT GOVERNING THE USE OF
ROCKET SOFTWARE.

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Trademarks and Acknowledgements
The trademarks and service marks identified in the following list are the exclusive properties of Rocket Software,
Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively, “Rocket Software”). These marks are registered with the U.S. Patent and
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Rocket Software are listed. The absence of a mark from this page neither constitutes a waiver of any intellectual
property rights that Rocket Software has established in its marks nor means that Rocket Software is not owner of
any such marks.
Aldon, CorVu, Dynamic Connect, D3, FlashConnect, Pick, mvBase, mvEnterprise, NetCure,
Rocket, SystemBuilder, U2, U2 Web Development Environment, UniData, UniVerse, and
wIntegrate
Other company, product, and service names mentioned herein may be trademarks or service marks of
others.

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