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- 1. Jack Gibson GM – Integration & Development Platforms, National City Corporation
- 2. Agenda n Overview n Team Background n Problem n Transformation n Solution l Generation I l Generation II n Questions n Credits
- 3. Background n Integration & Development Platforms performs the following functions at National City l Research & Development l Technology Certification l Project Engineering n 2005 - Engineered Technologies l WebMethods l Shared J2EE (WebSphere) l Portal (Sharepoint)
- 4. Signs of a problem n Server Sprawl l 1000+ new servers per year l <200 server decommissions per year n Disparate Solutions l Growth of JEE containers varying from standards; Tomcat, Jboss, WebLogic... l Technology alignment by team or line of business n Resource Management l Relation of discretionary project hours to base engineering support
- 5. Traditional Approaches n Engineering l The Silver Bullet l Wrong technology mix n Governance l Eliminate choice l Lack of enforcement n Organizational l Accountability
- 6. Transformation n Information Technology as Business l Consider technology a product l Identify your customers l Define success criteria and QBOs n Align Organization l Engineering l Delivery l Support Infrastructure Platforms (Servers, Network, Telephony) Development Platform Assets Enterprise Integration Assets Business Engineering Assets J2EE .NET Portal (WSS/ SPS) Web- Methods / ESB EAI MQ BRE BPM Business Technology Application Solutions BTS Content Services Service Registry
- 7. Process n Define our initial product n Use a well accepted process to identify opportunities and revamp the product set l Six Sigma (DMAIC) l DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) n Voice of Customer n Instrumentation n Feature/Capability Vetting Process (Commoditization)
- 8. Commoditization Process Entrance Criteria Adopted On boarding Process Yes Enablement Deployment Ongoing Support Investment EvaluationNo Revenue Increase Landscape Evaluation Convenience Increase Demand Evaluation Enhancements Customer Experience Investment Evaluation Investment Justified No Yes YesNo Capture Exit Criteria No Yes
- 9. Product n Enterprise Asset Shared, measurable, reusable software capabilities upon which business solutions are built and run. n Product Goals Improve efficiency and effectiveness in order to reduce the cost and time of delivery, operations and capital. l Drive adoption and growth – increase sales l Develop cost effective software capabilities and solutions that are easy to support. l Accelerate commoditization
- 10. Voice of the Customer n Process l When to Use l How to Engage l Time to Market l Lots of Moving Parts n Technology l Lack of Flexibility l Feature Availability l Product Specialization Asset Adoption Entrance Criteria Complexity Questionnaire Requires too much Product Knowledge Third Party Req’s vs Governance Questionnaire Number of Questions is Overwhelming Features Availability
- 11. Instrumented KPI n Sales l Pipeline l Close Rate n Lost Sales l Dollar Value l Investment Cost n TTM l Cost of Adoption l Time/Cost n Operational l Tickets l Availability l Response Time l Volume n Financial l Run rate l Discretionary Spend l ROIC
- 12. Baseline Data n From known project opportunities l Used a random sampling (20%) l 50% - did not use the product l Time to market - Required Engineering & Support - Deployment & configuration management l Varied from existing standards - Operating System - Container Vendor - Deployment Architecture - Version incompatibility
- 13. Requirements n Support for multiple operating systems n Hardware independence n End user deployment n Multiple versions per system n Ability to debug container n Delegated Administration n Application Isolation n Template Environments n Fast provisioning
- 14. Solution - Generation I n Infrastructure Focused l Virtualization l Provisioning l Application Server n Addressed Specific VoC Issues & QBOs l Capital Costs l Time to Market l Ease of Use n Landing Place for Generation II Containers Guest Guest Guest Guest HardwareVirtualization Layer HardwareHardware Products Extensions
- 15. Why Red Hat Enterprise Linux? n Market Saturation l 90% of JEE applications were supported on RHEL n Hardware Independence l Multi-platform support l Leverage available capacity l Flexible licensing n User acceptance l Developers comfortable with Linux n Technical capabilities
- 16. Why JBoss Enterprise Application Server? n Developer Enablement l File based configurations l Delegated administration l Simplicity n Source Available l Ability to fix our own problems n Subscription Model l 80% new installations l Freed capital for remaining WebSphere installations
- 17. Why VMWare Infrastructure 3.x? n Maturity of Platform l 85% market share l Platform Support (Solaris, Windows and Linux) n Administration Tools l Centralized administration console l DRS l Clustering
- 18. What's Changed n Increased Adoption l 300% increased adoption l 98% improvement in project losses n Pattern has been repeated l Other Assets l.Net lContent Management l Development
- 19. Fiscal Impact n ROIC l To Date - $1.6M l Year End – $2.8M l 2008 - $9.1M l 2010 - $26 M n Internal Costs l To Date – $4.3M l Year End – $5.6M l 2008 - $28M l 2010 - $73M $- $1,000,000.00 $2,000,000.00 $3,000,000.00 $4,000,000.00 $5,000,000.00 $6,000,000.00 $7,000,000.00 $8,000,000.00 $9,000,000.00 Weekly Implemented Quarterly Annually Capital Capital $- $10,000,000.00 $20,000,000.00 $30,000,000.00 $40,000,000.00 $50,000,000.00 $60,000,000.00 $70,000,000.00 $80,000,000.00 $90,000,000.00 $100,000,000.00 W eekly M onthly Im plem ented Requested Q uarterlyNext6 M onths Annually Y1 Y2 Y3
- 20. Cultural Changes n Evolution of JEE as the common development platform l 2006 – 30% l 2007 – 50% l 2008 – 60% n Asset/Stack Concept is common vernacular n Adoption accelerated the commodity status of virtual platforms and the JEE container n Product development is focused now on patterns/frameworks (Generation II)
- 21. Usage Characteristics n Mission Critical Applications l 2005 l Wire Transfer & Home Equity Loan Origination l 2008 – lElectronic Funds Transfer (BillPay, ATM, POS, Visa) lPoints by National City lForeign Exchange lTrade Floor l Future lEAI (mainframe integration) lCustomer Pricing & Offers
- 22. Challenges n Open Source l Legal (still in progress) l Mis-perceptions n Engineering on the Bleeding Edge l Clustering with VMWare, RHEL & JBoss l Monitoring & Management n Finance l Completely different model l Resulted in IS under-recovery
- 23. Solution – Generation II Business Event Pattern Data Access Pattern Application Framework ORMMulitcast Directory Services Remoting Management Tools Web ServicesWeb 2.0 Messaging Cache SSO AOP Profiling TestTools Instrumentation SSOEventing ... Automation&ApplicationEnablement BuildRunDeployAutomateDebug ReferenceArchitecture NCC Engineered Extensions Base Certified Asset Runtime Environment Ø Documentation Ø Samples Ø Tool Integration Ø Asset Integration Ø IP Sign-Off Ø Training Ø Support Rule & Decisioning Pattern Business Logic Rules Orchestration Extension Services UI ...
- 24. Incorporate Existing Solutions n Harvest existing patterns, solutions and frameworks n Productize l IP Vetting l Documentation l Performance & Failure Testing l Training n New Capabilities l Integrated Web Services l Single Sign-On l Business Eventing
- 25. Begin Incubating new products n Developer Desktop l JBoss Developer Studio l SEAM Extensions l RHEL on the Desktop n Distributed Messaging & Transaction Processing l JBoss Messaging n Integration Frameworks l JBoss ESB n Centralized Transaction Tracing & Alerting l JBoss ESB/JBoss Messaging
- 26. Looking Forward n Leverage the process and products created to date to l Standardize on a single development platform l Replace vendor applications with custom JEE applications lDrive product innovation lUse technology to enhance the customer experience n Further use of JBoss ESB l Rules/Decisioning
- 28. Credits n John Olson, Developer n Venkataraman Muthuraligm, Developer n Vijay Varre, JEE Technical Architect