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8/14/2019 Trends in Enterprise Architectures From Client To

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Trends in Enterprise Architectures

From Client to the Cloud

Adam Gross

VP Platform Technology


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Changing materials, tools and practices

Salisbury Cathedral - 1248 Bilbao - 1997


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Client Server > Enterprise Cloud Computing

Forecast for

software: cloudy.

1960s

Mainframe

1980s

Client/server

Today

Enterprise Cloud

Computing


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The Changing Stack

System / Virtualization Database

Metadata

App / Logic Tier (Frameworks) Presentation / Client


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Virtualization > Distributed Systems

One System > Many

Many Systems > One

- Goal is to manage system as a whole- Virtualization can be used to dynamically provision clusters- Power and other considerations can drive push to smaller / more

machines


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Force.com: Multi-tenant Platform

UtilityShared systems,

Economies of Scale

ElasticInstant, effortless

scale

SubscriptionPay as you go, and only for

what you use

Fully FeaturedComplete platform stack

Continuous

InnovationApplications without

upgrades

ProvenPowering the leading SaaS

app since 1999


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Relational DB > Database 2.0

Category Use Case Examples

Semi-relational / app datastore

Traditional DB apps Force.com, BigTable,SimpleDB

Distributed Document DBs Web caching, objectpersistance

CouchDB

BI 2.0 / CTL Large scale data analysis Hadoop, HyperTable,Cloudera


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Create Any Data Model Add new objects, new

relationships

Use High Level Field

Types Leverage picklists, formulas, etc

Zero Database

Management Just runs; no performance

tuning or other management

required

Database as a Service


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BI 2.0

Files /

Data

Sources

Transform

and Load

ETL Extract, Transform, Load

CTL Compute, Transform, Load

Files /

Data

Sources

Mega and Gigabyte

Tera and Petabyte

Files /

Data

Sources

Files /

Data

Sources


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Code > Metadata


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APIs > Frameworks

4GL

Database

Tools

App

Servers /

J2EE

Dynamic

Language

Stacks

Frameworks

VisualBasic

Powerbuilder

4D

BEA

WebSphere

etc

PHP

Python

Perl

Force.com

Rails

SpringSource

Data /

Forms

Apps

Web Apps

Web

Apps +Simplicity

Data / Forms

Apps


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What can you build with Force.com?

Create apps

based on any

data model,

meet any

requirements

App framework

provides

plumbing for

free

Run on demand,

with performance,

security and scale

Enterprise grade

security,

management and

control for the

largest and

smallest apps

Enterprise Database Apps


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Core Services

Application Services

Application Framework

Operations

Traditional Platforms App Framework

Force.com Application Framework


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Force.com Web services API

Auto-completion for API calls

Enterprise/Partner WSDL

Strongly and weakly typed

representations of customize data

model

SOQL SQL like interface

Simple, familiar syntax for querying data

from within an object

SOSL Google like interface

Simple syntax for searching data across

objects

DB Mirroring

APIs for creating local warehouse of

salesforce.com data


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Clients > Browsers

Browser Device

Safari 4 Mac, PC, iPhone

Google Chrome PC, (OS), Android

Firefox 3.5 Mac, PC, Linux

PalmPre Web OS


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Browser / Offline Gmail / Location Services


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The Changing Stack

Layer Previous Model Next Gen ModelSystem/Virtualization

Virtualized singlemachines

One logical system,many machines

Database Traditional RDBMs Database as aService

Metadata Code generators Real time interpreted

Framework None MVC, data, etc

Client HTML / Desktop /

Mobile

HTML5


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