Project teams often use shadow IT, instead of the much slower traditional IT, to facilitate rapidly changing complex business requirements and quick release cycles. As a result, an unmanaged, ungoverned set of IT solutions reside in enterprises that keeps CIOs awake at night. This presenation also explains how enterprises can leverage cloud-enabled ALM frameworks to build managed and governed empowered IT that enables quick release cycles and template-driven rapid development, empowering developers to develop, test, and release apps in a governed secured manner.

1. From Shadow IT to Empowered IT
Unshackling your Developers’ Creativity
Dimuthu Leelarathne
Senior Architect - WSO2,Inc

2. Agenda
2
Shadow IT
Reference
Architecture
Empowered IT

3. Business challenges
3
- Complex biz requirements
- Wider problem space
- Rapidly changing
- Increasing Velocity
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4. Technology challenges
4

5. Relationship with IT
5
2 days to
create a
user
½ day to
reset a
password
3 days to
create a
database
1 week to
provision
runtime a VM
policies
devops
policies
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6. Result – Shadow IT
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Picture Credit : http://www.apriso.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Shadow_IT_continued.jpg/

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Shadow IT is IT activity that
occurs outside of IT. Shadow
IT is growing in many
organizations driven by
consumerized technology,
mobility, the availability of
cloud solutions ……

8. Shadow IT – today
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9. 9
People are tech savvy

10. Shadow IT Usage by Employees
10
http://www.mcafee.com/hk/resources/reports/rp-six-trends-security.pdf

11. Is it new ?
11
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12. 12
Story : Protecting spreadsheets

13. Shadow IT in Software Development
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Dev Teams
Biz Users
IT
I have a solution, but
can’t deploy
I need a quick solution
for problem ‘x’
Not compliant with the
policies
I can fund and provide
hosting.
?..#@$%
CIO CFO
♬♪
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2
3
4

14. Agile innovation labs
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- Applications developed in innovation labs
- Driven by need
- Driven by speed
- Driven by knowledge
- Meets business and technology demand

15. Lifecycle of an (unmanaged) app
App App
In Production Maintenance
AP
P
Ap
p
Ap
p
App
Create
6 – 9 months
Dev Teams IT
Biz Users
Managed apps
{integrate}

16. 16
35% of enterprise IT
expenditures will happen
outside of the corporate
IT budget in 2015.

17. Addressing Shadow IT in Software
Development
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18. Solution to facilitate
18
Quick
release
cycles
Agile,
iterative
process
Accept the
creative
experimen-tation
Empower
the dev
groups
Monitored
Governed
Secured
Agile
Infra

19. Solution provides
19
Self service
Workflow
driven /
Automated/
Monitored
Polyglot
programming
model
Heterogynous
runtimes
API driven
Store fronts
Template
driven

20. Roadmap for empowered IT
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- Access to (your) cloud
- Private cloud (privately/publicly hosted)
- Public cloud
- Link ALM and dev tools with the cloud
- Expose the services as APIs, list APIs to subscribe
- Create your project templates
- Develop and publish apps
- Monitor development activities and usage

21. Reference Architecture
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22. Implementation
22
Business dynamics have changed.

23. Enterprise
Apps
Multiple Project Teams
● Collaborate
● Create
● Develop
● Deploy and host
Platform
● Shared
● Elastic
● Multi-tenant
● Self-service
● PaaS
Utilizing
● APIS
● Tools
● Infrastructure

24. Implementation, integrated
24

25. Streamlined Governed ALM
25

26. Self service, template driven, automated
26

27. CXO/EA dashboards, monitor, measure
27

28. Lifecycle, manage, control, advertise
28

29. Runtime, cloud enabled, polyglot
29

30. 30
Runtime, cloud enabled, polyglot

31. WSO2 Cloud Platform
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32. Connect Old IT with New IT
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33. 33
Connected, internally and externally

34. Reference architecture, cont.
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e : dimuthul AT wso2.com
w : http://wso2.com