From Shadow IT to Empowered IT

Unshackling Your Developers’ Creativity

Asanka Abeysinghe

Vice President, Solutions Architecture - WSO2,Inc

Agenda

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Shadow IT

Reference Architecture

Empowered IT

Challenge – Consumer driven

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Business challenges

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- Complex biz requirements

- Wider problem space

- Rapidly changing

- Quick release cycles

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Technology challenges

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Relationship with IT

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2 days to create a

user

½ day to reset a

password

3 days to create a

database

1 week to provision

a VMruntime policies

devopspolicies

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Result – the finale

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YOU’REFIRED!

and MEET MY LAWYER!

Result – Shadow IT

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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 ……

Is it new ?

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Story : Protecting spreadsheets

Shadow IT – today

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People are tech savvy

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Public hosting is affordable

and accessible.

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

Internal battle

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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.

?..#@$%

CFOCIO

♬♪

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Lifecycle of an (unmanaged) app

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In Production Maintenance

App App

APP

App

App

App

Create

6 – 9 months

Dev Teams IT

Biz Users

Managed apps

{integrate}

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35% of enterprise IT

expenditures will happen

outside of the corporate

IT budget in 2015.

Solution to facilitate

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Quick release cycles

Agile, iterative process

Ability to migrate

shadow IT apps

Accept the creative

experimen-tation

Empower the devgroups

Governed/Secured

Enterprise ready

Solution provides

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Self service

Workflow driven

Polyglot programming

model

Heterogynous runtimes

API driven

Automated / Template

driven

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Manage App Development

Manage App Usage

Roadmap

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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

- Track the usage

- ( Iterate last two steps )

Reference Architecture

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Implementation

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Implementation, integrated

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Implementation, runtime view

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Self service, template driven, automated

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CXO/EA dashboards, monitor, measure

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Lifecycle, manage, control, advertise

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Runtime, enterprise middleware

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Runtime, cloud enabled, polyglot

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Runtime, cloud enabled, polyglot

WSO2 Cloud Platform

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Connect Old IT with New IT

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Connected, internally and externally

Reference architecture, cont.

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Story : DevOps PaaS in airline

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t : @asankama

e : asankaa AT wso2.com

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