the next big thing: highly focused business apps
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Presenting
Robin Bloor Chief Analyst The Bloor Group
Host: Eric Kavanagh CEO The Bloor Group
Dave King Founder Exaptive
• plough fields with yaks
• deliver cash by horse and buggy
• do math with an abacus
A New Paradigm
Smart businesses don’t:
The same holds true for application development!
Analytics
Analytics has become the business focus of the software market,
acquiring sophistication at unprecedented speed
§ Parallelism (multicore chips, commodity servers, MMP architectures)
§ The Apache Collection (Hadoop distributions)
§ Microbatch & streaming technology (Spark, Flink, etc.)
§ Streaming infrastructure (Kafka, MapR Streams)
§ Data Lakes and associated tools (cleansing, etc.)
Convergent Disruption…
§ External data sources (unstructured, graph data)
§ New databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)
§ The Cloud (Amazon, Azure, etc.)
§ Analytic languages & libraries (R, Python, etc.)
§ Machine learning S/W & libraries
The Development Challenge
To orchestrate any collection of these powerful technologies is a challenge. It
requires is a development and deployment platform that reduces the
complexity while preserving the functionality.
The War Against Complexity
u Data growth and variability
u The evolving hardware layer (platforms and devices)
u Messaging (data and process distribution)
u Application diversity and context
u Security and governance
u The move to real-time
Complexity
Technologies of Reuse
u Program libraries
u Modular programming
u Databases & stored procedures
u Object orientation and CORBA
u Web services/Service Oriented Architecture
u Pluggable apps (functions)
Rapid (Analytic) App Development
Additive technology
Iterative development
Minimal physical coding
Data access & integration
Data flow capability
Collaboration & reuse
Data governance Full lifecycle
The Net Net
Ultimately, the business only wants applications
The enabling technology needs to be as
invisible as possible
FAST DEVELOPMENT NECESSARY