A new focus is needed for I.T. Professionals. The days of the Information Technology department are over. For the future, skills in Technology Integration are needed.

1. R.I.P.
IT
1962-­‐2014
Long
Live
TI
Jay
Kuri
@JayKuri
Camp
DevOps
Conference
@GlueCon
May
20,
2014
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2. IT’s
Mandate
!
Provide
the
technology
and
tools
so
that
the
organization
can
operate
at
peak
performance.
2

3. How
did
IT
Accomplish
This?
• Manage
and
Control
!
• Control
all
technology
assets
!
• Manage
the
Applications
3

4. Thinking
Was:
!
• Better
results
through
complete
control
of
technology.
!
• Lofty
Ideal.
In
practice
results
in
slow
technology
adoption.
4

5. Our
World
has
Changed
• SaaS,
PaaS,
IaaS
have
changed
everything.
5
• Users
now
have
a
way
around
slow
adoption
by
technology
departments.
!
• This
is
Shadow
IT.

6. !
We
can’t
put
that
genie
back
in
the
bottle.
!
!
(nor
do
we
want
to)
6

7. 7
“More than ever before, IT is primed to
become application assemblers and
brokers of business services. As SaaS,
PaaS and IaaS provide turnkey access to
compute capacity, IT will increasingly
focus on composite business applications -
rather than a buy-build-manage.” SDN - Liz
McMillan

8. 8
Our
App
Center
of
the
Universe
Big
Bunch
O’Code
Center
of
the
Universe
Model

9. What’s
Changed
for
Us?
!
• No
longer
in
control
of
everything
• Must
understand
more
than
how
technologies
work
!
• No
Longer
dictators
of
infrastructure
– Now
conductors
of
data-­‐flow
• Now
must
understand
how
technologies
work
within
the
organization
9
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
becomes
TECHNOLOGY
INTEGRATION

10. 10
Our
App
Big
Bunch
O’Code
Part
of
an
Ecosystem

11. New
Focus
is
Needed
• Larger
understanding
of
data-­‐flow
within
the
organization
!
• New
tools
are
necessary
to
manage
information
flow
11

12. Focus
Was:
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Understanding,
building
and
managing
technologies
and
tech
infrastructure.
Hook it up.
Build it

13. Focus
is
now:
13
Understanding
and
managing
the
flow
of
data
across
all
the
tools
an
organization
uses—
regardless
of
in-­‐house
or
in
the
Cloud.
Hook it all up
Build it

14. Goal
is
the
same:
Provide
the
technology
and
tools
so
that
the
organization
can
operate
at
peak
performance.
!
Only
the
method
has
changed.
14

15. Technology Integration Is:
• Understanding the flow of information within the
organization
• Managing the links between the apps
• Control data flow directly wherever possible.

16. I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad
programmer and a good one is whether he
considers his code or his data structures more
important. Bad programmers worry about the code.
Good programmers worry about data structures and
their relationships.!
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! —Linus Torvalds

17. Bad technologists worry about control of
technology. Good technologists worry about
data flow.

18. What do we need?
• Let go of the idea of controlling technology and
assets
• Focus on understanding the data
• Learn how to facilitate and manage the flow of data
• Find and create new tools to help manage data
flow between apps.

19. We can do it!
We’ve already Begun.

20. We Must Embrace
our new roles as
Conductors of
Data Flow

21. We must share the new tools and
strategies we use to handle our
new responsibilities.

22. We’re all in IT together.

23. Thank you. Check us out Hookify.io
(@HookifyIO)