The Next Big Thing: Highly Focused Business Apps

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The Next Big Thing: Highly Focused Business Apps Research Webcast | October 12, 2016

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Robin Bloor Chief Analyst The Bloor Group

Host: Eric Kavanagh CEO The Bloor Group

Dave King Founder Exaptive

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A New Paradigm

Smart businesses don’t:

The same holds true for application development!

Robin Bloor, PhD

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

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