bridge the app gap: crossing the chasm between it and business

Paul Nashawaty

Product Marketing Strategist

Pacific & Modulus Product and Solution Marketing

Progress

Bridge the App Gap:

Crossing the Chasm Between IT and Business

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Business Changes for Application Development

Enterprise IT Modernization• Middleware, Systems of Record/Systems of Engagement

• Re-architecting, Technical Costs and Debt

Application Modernization Delivery• Delivery & Competitive

Cloud Technology & Deployment• IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

• Private, Public, Hybrid

Applying DevOps• Automation, Process, Skills, Technology

Mobile• Vendor / Platform Fragmentation

• Device Fragmentation, Development Approach


Enabling Application Developers to Address Customer Pain Points

Leveraged cloud development as the underlying platform for a state-of-the-art electronic health records SaaS

application

Good Done Great delivers powerful information technology tools to its clients,

built to monitor and manage applications that help them achieve more.

Rapidly create SaaS business applications using point & click, drag

& drop tools in a standard Web browser with a minimal amount of code.

Simple, high-function, low-cost IT system to support the delivery of healthcare services through CFW

sites in developing regions.

Accelerate time-to-market with rapid application development platform that

integrates out-of-the-box with leading CRM systems.

Modernization of IT infrastructure to take advantage of cloud-based scalability and economics.

Developed Sales Platform based hybrid cloud application

development platform.


Customer Business Problems and the Solution

Application Development Pain Points Platform as a Service advantages

Overwhelmed by data - organizations struggle to leverage data effectively

Build and manage applications, or the need to integrate and leverage your data more effectively

Overwhelmed by IT demand - users want more applications than they can deliver

Need for specific capabilities that you want to leverage within your existing technology infrastructure, or you may need a complete platform for data driven application development.

Flexibility to easily deploy on any infrastructure, fully controlled, customized and branded

Publish applications and connect data from multiple sources


CHALLENGE

Technology and social enterprise Good Done Great wanted to turn the philanthropic efforts of corporations and foundations into measureable and successful impacts.

SOLUTION

Good Done Great delivers powerful information technology tools to its clients that help them achieve more.

BENEFIT

Good Done Great leverages the technical strength to deliver a range of applications to its corporate and philanthropic clients.


CHALLENGE

Carego International needed to bring health care to underserved global communities through innovative modular facilities and cloud-based IT solutions

SOLUTION

Leveraged the cloud as the underlying platform for a state-of-the-art electronic health records SaaS application

BENEFIT

A simple, full-function solution that allows organizations in low-income regions to cost-effectively serve their populations and work offline when necessary


CHALLENGE

Inefficient internal processes impacted productivity and data accuracy; wanted to take advantage of market opportunity to support existing services with a software solution.

SOLUTION

Developed Cloudselling Sales Platform based on a cloud application development platform.

BENEFIT

Improved productivity & data quality; reduced time to generate reports from two days to zero; enhancement requests within one hour; real-time collaboration between Cloudselling and its customers.


Solving the Customer Problems

Application Development Issues Look for solutions that provide….

Achieving IT Success CIO needs to support as many business-positive projects as

possible

Eliminating the Backlog Address application backlog that is exacerbated by staffing or

budget constraints

Managing Shadow IT Replace makeshift solutions such as spreadsheets,

homegrown DBs or applications that don’t offer IT control or expertise

Implementing a Trusted Platform Need an application platform that can be centrally managed

and optimized

Expanding the Developer Pool Decrease dependency on high-cost, highly technical app dev

resources (simplify app dev for IT / enable citizen developers)

A modern Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that makes it easy

for application developers to rapidly build data-driven apps

and deploy them on any cloud or device

BUILD SHARE MOVE


It’s a Wrap!

Integrates solution existing on-premise or cloud-based business applications

Deployment of web-base and mobile applications

Data connectivity to on-premise, big data and other data sources

Cloud services for architecture, governance and community


PROGRESS DATADIRECT

Progress Pacific Platform Rapid Development of Data-driven Apps, High Control and Business Rules

Application Development Data Integration

Business Rules

PROGRESS OPENEDGE

PROGRESS ROLLBASE& ROLLBASE MOBILE

PROGRESS CORTICON

MODULUSA PROGRESS COMPANY


Thank you!

Paul Nashawaty

Product Marketing [email protected]

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