The document discusses the necessity for businesses to adapt to increasingly complex requirements and highlights the transition towards a connected business model. It outlines the role of next-generation middleware, API-centric architecture, and the importance of integrating new technologies like cloud and big data. Ultimately, the focus is on enhancing business processes by decomposing them into services and making them accessible via APIs to drive innovation and connectivity.

1. Roadmap to a Connected
Business
Journey for success
Asanka Abeysinghe
Vice President, Solutions Architecture - WSO2, Inc

2. Why Change? Increasingly Complex Requirements
http://wso2.com/landing/enabling-the-connected-business

3. Challenges
o Complex biz requirements
o Wider problem space
o Rapidly changing
o Quick release cycles
o ROI (from middleware)
o Beyond the middleware
Picture Credit : http://www.latimes.com/sports/

4. Connected Business
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Connected Car
Connected Health
Connected Supply Chain

5. Connect -*
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6. To improve is to change;
to be perfect change
often – Winston Churchill

7. Picture Credit : http://calebmagnino.com/creative/the-journey/
Technical Non-Technical

8. What will happen to the
current system(s), data,
people ?

9. When can I launch the
new system ?

10. How can I get there ?

12. Next generation middleware
o Big-3
o Mobile
o Social
o Cloud
o APIs
o Big Data
o DevOps
o Open Source Picture Credit : http://www.latimes.com/sports/

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14. Requirement Stage
Requirements
Current
applications/systems
Δ Delta

15. Approach (Architecture)
Business
Architecture
Solution
Architecture
• Level 0
• Level 1
Application
Architecture
• Integration
• Data models
• APIs
Runtime
Architecture
• Capacity Planning
• Deployment
• Security

16. What the Enterprise Looks Like
Architecture

17. Services – get the service platforms
Architecture

18. Registry/Repository
Architecture

19. Identity/Access Control
Architecture

20. Connectivity - internal
Architecture

21. Connectivity - external
Architecture

22. APIs
Architecture

23. API Management the
missing link of SOA
success. - Sanjiva Weerawarana

24. Demand for APIs
Picture Credit : http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/letting-gamers-experience-the.html

25. API Centric SOA
BU-1 BU-2 BU-3
Services Services Services
APIs
API Façade

26. Monitoring, Analytics, Audits
Architecture

27. Picture Credit : http://youtu.be/4Ttsx5squWg

28. CEP – real-time
Architecture

29. Workflows, Rules, Pub/Sub
Architecture

30. Fill-in the Blanks
Architecture

31. Middleware Platform
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32. Do I need the entire
platform ?

33. Connected Business Reference Architecture

34. Beyond the middleware
o Cloud
o *PaaS to SaaS
o Cloud native
o ALM
o AppFactory
Private
PaaS
Public
PaaS

35. Same programming model
Same solution architecture
Same (deployable) artifacts
Cloud based deployment
Cloud native applications

36. Connect Old-IT and New-IT
Architecture

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Decompose your existing
business processes, data and
capabilities into services
Make all services
accessible via APIs,
externally and internally
Put services and APIs
under control ! Build an ecosystem
around your APIs
Collect data on your new
products and APIs
http://bit.ly/1m72JSa
Summary – Becoming a Connected Business

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