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Digital Transformation Leadership Series
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Recording Slides Questions
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John R. RymerVice President and Principal Analyst
Guest speaker
5 Critical Questions
1. What’s Fueling the Need forDigital Transformation?
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“It’s no longer the big beating the small, but the fast beating the slow.”
— Eric Pearson, CIO, InterContinental Hotel Group
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Business & IT aligned – so now what?
2. Why low-code…why now?
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Low-code’s role: Expand software delivery capacity
Platform-as-a-service
Low-code platforms
Cloud infrastructure servicesDevOps
prosCloud admins
Coders
Rapid devs
Non-dev roles
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Four forces will shape the future of low-code platforms
Low-code 2020
Large vendors acquire
Mobile becomes a
feature
Low-code BPM steps
up
IoT, robotics, cognitive
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Low-code is a fast-growing market
Source: “Vendor Landscape: The Fractured, Fertile Terrain Of Low-Code Application Platforms” Forrester report
3. Why ”general purpose” platforms?
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We identified five market segmentsSource: “Vendor Landscape: The Fractured, Fertile Terrain Of Low-Code Application Platforms” Forrester report
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Source: “The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Development Platforms, Q2 2016” Forrester report
And 4 top providers
4. Why is “speed” the foundation?
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Visual Development Speeds Delivery
US Government (ACA)
Document compliance module
100 person months
5 person-months
Enterprise Result Code Low-Code
UK Insurance Agent Portal ∞ 10 days to MVP
Call Center Operator Customer-specific app 4 months 3 weeks
Spain Insurance Web channel & admin system
2.7 years (est) 13 weeks
Source: “Vendor Landscape: The Fractured, Fertile Terrain Of Low-Code Application Platforms” January 15, 2016
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5. How will this impact my dev teams?
500,000 Developer Jobs Will Go Unfilled In 2020
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Roles Using Coding
Platforms
Roles Using Low-Code Cloud Platforms
Who does the work? From pros to citizens
DevOps Pros Coders Rapid
DevsApps Pros
Citizen Developers
ProcessPros
Business Analysts
Identify with technologies Identify with business solutions
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Source: The Forrester Wave™: Low-Code Platforms Customer Reference Survey, Q1 2016
When Code Is Necessary
N = 42
To deliver a typical project delivered with the low-code platform, does your organization have to write any code? If so, for what purposes?
Some next steps….getting started
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Source: “The Four App-Delivery Strategies For A Customer-Obsessed Operating Model,” June, 2016
A software strategy for digital transformation1. Prioritize customer ecosystem apps.2. Industrialize software (service) delivery for speed and
responsiveness.3. Prioritize customer insights, analytical apps and
services everywhere. 4. Adopt product management and modern financial
governance.
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Recommended adoption cycleWhat role?
Who does the work?
Conventions & frameworks
Governance with a light touch
Measure results, drive broader usage