IBM - Paul Pilotto
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This document discusses how ASIST can help organizations address challenges in digital transformation. It summarizes ASIST's services including modern development, delivery pipelines, and shift-left testing. These services can help attract new talent, increase speed and agility, and improve quality. The document also provides examples of how different types of APIs can drive business models.
![A[P]PIFICATION
What is a Business API?
A Business API is a public persona for an enterprise; exposing defined assets, data or services for public
consumption
A Business API is simple for app developers to use, access and understand
A Business API can be easily invoked
What Value Does a Business API Provide?
Extends an enterprise and opens new markets by allowing external app
developers to easily leverage, publicize and/or aggregate a company’s
assets for broad-based consumption
What “assets, data or services” are exposed via a Business API?
Product catalogs
Store listings
Order status
Inventory
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IBM - Paul Pilotto
- 1. ADVICE IN SOFTWARE, IT SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES VAGen to Rational Business Developer EGL Migration
- 2. Agenda ► ASIST in a nutshell ► Challenges of today towards the Digital Transformation ► How can ASIST help to respond to these challenges ► Conclusion
- 3. ASIST and the Digital Transformation ► Belgian company since 1995 ► Office in Leuven, Belgium and Queensland, Australia ► 21 professionals with specific skills (15 IBM Certified) ► 5 Business Units ► Software Asset Management ► Enterprise Modernization ► Application Lifecycle Management ► Systems (IBM i, System z and Mobile) ► Insourcing Services ► Focus on the Development Transformation on Enterprise Systems ► Belgian player but worldwide references
- 4. Mainframe Customer Pain Points of today Lack of New Skills • Unable to leverage existing assets to capitalize on business opportunities • Lack of contemporary tools and software practices creates an un- level playing field between distributed and z/OS technology • COBOL developers retirement eligible, potential skills issue Lack of Speed and Agility • Maintenance and development on the mainframe cannot keep up with the speed of business • Lack of collaboration and deployment silos introduces waste • Inconsistent test and production environments affect quality Lack of Affordable Quality • Little to no insight into application quality trends • Competition for hardware resources impedes dev and test efforts • Long delivery cycles inhibits business innovation Business innovation hampered by lack of new talent, inflexible systems, and inability to digitalize the enterprise Business Impact Lack of speed creates a competitive impediment in an IT-fueled economy Business Impact Forces a flawed choice between slow and costly test & deploy practices and quality systems that are compliant Business Impact
- 5. DevOps for Enterprise Systems Solutions Modern Development Attract new talent and enable digital transformation • Attract new talent with modern tools and processes • Increase developer productivity to reduce maintenance backlog – for both entry-level and veteran z/OS developers • Enable a digital transformation by understanding current code as a first step towards a digital transformation • API enable back-end code with service enablement tools Delivery Pipeline Deliver with speed • Enhance collaboration across teams, technologies and platforms through unified status and change & configuration management • Improve speed and predictability by automating build, deploy and configuration across all platforms and technologies • Reduce risks and meet audit and compliance mandates with automated process enforcement Shift-left Testing Improve quality and reduce risk • Improve quality and reduce effort through automated developer testing • Identify redundant regression test cases through analytics • Remove bottlenecks for hardware availability and reduce test MIPS cost through personalized test environment • Find defects earlier through test automation and virtualized test environments
- 6. A[P]PIFICATION What is a Business API? A Business API is a public persona for an enterprise; exposing defined assets, data or services for public consumption A Business API is simple for app developers to use, access and understand A Business API can be easily invoked What Value Does a Business API Provide? Extends an enterprise and opens new markets by allowing external app developers to easily leverage, publicize and/or aggregate a company’s assets for broad-based consumption What “assets, data or services” are exposed via a Business API? Product catalogs Store listings Order status Inventory Social interaction
- 7. The Business of APIs Drives Adoptions of APIs Typically low valued assets Drive brand loyalty Enter new channels For Free Facebook Login API provides free authentication for any Web / mobile app Example: Developer Pays Business Asset must be of high value to the Developer For example, marketing analytics, news, Capabilities such as credit checks Amazon EC2 Web Services – APIs charge per usage to launch and manage virtual servers. Example: Developer Gets Paid Provides incentive for developer to leverage web API Ad placements Percentage of revenue sold product or services Google AdSense APIs pay developers who include advertising content into apps Example: Indirect Use of API achieves some goal that drives business model. E.g. Increase awareness of specific content, or offerings eBay Trading APIs offer developers access to trading services extending the reach of listings and transactions Example:
- 8. How can we help Modern Development Tools Cobol Runtime optimization