from shadow it to empowered it: unshackling your developers’ creativity!
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From Shadow IT to Empowered IT
Unshackling Your Developers’ Creativity
Asanka Abeysinghe
Vice President, Solutions Architecture - WSO2,Inc
Business challenges
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- Complex biz requirements
- Wider problem space
- Rapidly changing
- Quick release cycles
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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 – 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 ……
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}
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
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 )
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b : http://asanka.abeysinghe.org
t : @asankama
e : asankaa AT wso2.com
w : http://wso2.com