Tech Talk: CA Live API Creator MythBuster: Database Design Takes an Expert

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Tech Talk: CA Live API Creator Myth Buster:
Database Design Takes an Expert
Val Huber – Consulting Engineer – CA Technologies
DO3T13T
DEVOPS

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Abstract
No pre-knowledge is required. You will learn how to create an API server that exposes APIs for
partners and mobile Apps, enforces logic, creates Webhooks for partner integration.Val Huber
CA Technologies
Consulting Engineer

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Agenda
SHADOW IT – FOR AGILITY
DATA MAINTENANCE - INSTANTLY
CUSTOMIZABLE – NO IDE
DATABASE CREATION - SIMPLE
SIMPLE(R) – YET ENTERPRISE CLASS
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STRATEGIC VALUE6

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Shadow IT: Promising Agility and Empowerment
Screen Painter + 4GL – Really Not That Simple, or That Fast…. and It Doesn't Scale
Multi-Table Form?
Business Logic?
Data Model
(Foreign Key?)
IT Headache
Scalability? Integration?
Standards?

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Data Maintenance Apps
Instantly – Just Connect and You Get This App…
Multi-Table, Multi-Form
Automatic Joins
Tablet Ready

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Customizable
No IDE, No Compile, No Deploy – Always Running (Like a Spreadsheet)
Field Display, Order, Group
Conditions
Skinning

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Interesting Portion of Project
Back Office Data Maintenance
User Engagement – Live Apps
QA, Testing
UI - Front
Office
30%
UI - Back
Office
25%
Backend -
SQL
10%
Backend -
Logic
25%
Backend -
Integration
10%
SYSTEM COMPONENTS

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No Database? No Problem.
Your App is Your IDE
Not: SQL, E/R Diagram, …
Just: Master/Detail, Lookup
Creates Table,
Foreign Key,
Test Data

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LAC
IT Execs: Deliver Strategic Value in the App Economy
Download Verifiable
SharePt
Access, etc
10X Enterprise Agility
§ Instant APIs
§ Reactive Logic
§ App Economy Services
Superior Empowerment
for Business Users*
§ No DB Background (FK?)
§ Reactive Logic (scripting?)
§ Instant Master/Detail App
Simplicity
Power
Enterprise Agility for the App Economy
Empowerment for Business Users
One Technology to Learn Support
Insulates from Tech Change
* Reporting, Graphs, Imports
LAC

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Strategic Value for the Agile Enterprise
For the Business, For the Technology – A Unified Strategy
Empower Business
§ Embrace Shadow IT
§ Empower Business Users
IT
§ One Stack
§ Agility for Enterprise Systems

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With a
Unified Strategy
Not only can IT empower
Business Users,
it can invest in a single
technology that provides agility
for Departmental to Enterprise-
class systems.
Complexity is a
Blocker
Basic Apps Require Code…
Master/Detail? Multi-screen?
New Systems…
Database Design Skills?
Automation
Empowers Users
Apps… automatically from DB
Database Creation… from App
Plus Enterprise-scale..
APIs, Reactive Logic,
Integration Logic
Agility – Empower Business Users
Apps for Data Access, New Systems for Business Initiatives

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Thank you.

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