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Welcome

Host: Eric Kavanagh

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!   Reveal the essential characteristics of enterprise software, good and bad

!   Provide a forum for detailed analysis of today’s innovative technologies

!   Give vendors a chance to explain their product to savvy analysts

!   Allow audience members to pose serious questions... and get answers!

Mission


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APRIL: Intelligence

May: INTEGRATION

June: DATABASE

July: CLOUD


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Intelligence

Processing Monitoring Alerts/triggers/actions

HINDSIGHT

FORESIGHT OVERSIGHT

INSIGHT


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Analyst: Robin Bloor

Robin Bloor is Chief Analyst at The Bloor Group

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! EnterpriseWeb is an “Intelligent Operations Platform” that models, runs and manages business applications

!   Highlights of the platform include: business process management, business activity monitoring, data migration and quality, and master data management

!   Its Enterprise “App Store” provides reusable and trackable apps, processes and services

EnterpriseWeb


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Dave Duggal

Dave Duggal is Co-founder and Managing Director of EnterpriseWeb. Dave is a proven business leader who has made a career of building, growing and turning around companies over the last twenty years. He is a proponent of next generation ‘smart’ and dynamically adaptable software and has written several academic papers and articles on the subject. Dave is on the Program Committee for the Adaptive Case Management Group and is a member/contributor to Object Management Group’s Cloud Customer Service Committee.

Copyright 2013, EnterpriseWeb LLC

The Application Model is Broken

Vertical integration inhibits horizontal interoperability and scalability

… and enterprise-wide concerns


Governance?

Security?

Version Control?


The World is Increasingly Distributed & Diverse

Analytics?

Change?


Compounding Object-Relational Mismatch!

Network Architecture is Transforming the World



A network application model for a networked world™


For any Workload

Real-Time Semantic Enterprise

Application Integration

Data & Code

Local & Federated

Structured & Unstructured

Entities & Reference Data

Business Rules & UI Components

Systems & Databases

Services & APIs

Sensors & Devices


People

Information

Rules

Capabilities

It let’s your Organization act as a network

of loosely-coupled Resources


People

Information

Rules

Capabilities

Interconnected by links…

links


People

Information

Rules

Capabilities

Indexed Content

and metadata…

links


Indexed Content

People

Information

Rules

Capabilities

and change history


links

Indexed Content

links People

Information

Rules

Capabilities

A 3-Dimensional Information Space


The EnterpriseWeb™ is Hyper-Relational™

System Agents ‘Mash-up’ Resources on-demand


Code

UI Rule

Data

Task Data

Code Task

Data Code UI

Rule Task

Data Code

UI

Rule

Service API Service Service Service Service API API API

Data Code UI

Rule Task Data UI Rule Data

Rule Data

Task Code

Adaptor

Adaptor

Adaptor Adaptor

Adaptor Adaptor

Adaptor Adaptor

Adaptor

Process “A” Process “C” Process “B”

Common Metadata Layer

Application Logic (Rules with links and metadata queries/algorithms)

System-wide Logic (Rules with links and metadata queries/algorithms)

Cross-Process Governance

Virtual Repository of Loosely-Coupled Data, Logic and UI Objects

(Including adaptors for RESTful APIs and Web Services for 3rd Party Systems, Databases and Devices, etc.)


A unified storage-application architecture

No ‘joins’ – seamlessly correlate system-wide activity for real-time 360o views of anything

Supports integrated operations - linked processes and cross-process governance

Promotes Master Data and code re-use


Process as Sets of Loosely-Coupled Tasks

A Series of Stateless Asynchronous Transactions

100% Dynamic


David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister

“… you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps”

Transformation requires a LEAP™

Albert Einstein

“… you can’t solve problems with the thinking that created them”


Dave Duggal,

Co-Founder/Managing Director

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Analyst: Robin Bloor

Perceptions & Questions

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THE INCOHERENCE PROBLEM

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A Multitude of Software Legacies SOFTWARE EVOLUTION HAS BEEN DISAPPOINTING

Mainframe architectures

Client/server architectures

Multi-tier architectures

Web-based architectures

SOA (and IOA)

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Platforms: Partial Solutions

4GL & Database

Relational Database

Object Orientation

Web Services BPM SOA

Various PLATFORMS emerged:

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The World Did Not Stand Still

…it became more COMPLEX

Hardware

Environments

Data

Apps

Management

• Desktops, laptops, internet, mobile, multi-core, in-memory, embedded

• Unix, Windows, Linux, VMs, Grids, Cloud

• Files, relational, unstructured, Hadoop, machine data

• Transactional, desktop, office systems, BI, web apps, Big Data, semantic data

• Service mgt, asset mgt, cost mgt, threat mgt, data security

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The Incoherence Problem

We operate

in SILOS and clusters

of silos

We have a

LONG TAIL of

legacy

NEW technologies, environments

and applications continue to

emerge

We lack COHERENCE

at every level

Ultimately, it’s an ARCHITECTURE problem, and it’s a formidable one

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!   Isn’t the problem just too big to solve completely?

!   How does EnterpriseWeb manage metadata?

!   How does it guarantee security of access to data?

!   Is this really a codeless environment? What if I want a specific performance capability that requires low-level coding?

!   Why do you not require/have an ESB?

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!   When you say “real-time” what do you mean in respect of performance characteristics?

!   Is it an in-memory technology?

!   Can this environment manage Big Data workloads?

!   When using EnterpriseWeb what do you build and what do you buy (in respect of applications)?


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April: INTELLIGENCE

May: INTEGRATION

June: DATABASE

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