Composable Enterprise: The framework for optimal IT if the future

Most companies today want more scalability and flexibility for their office automation and IT services. Investments made in IT for this often result, however, in a situation where IT services become more complex and expensive, instead of gaining anticipated benefits. What causes this? What can we do with Composable Enterprise architectures to make this transition beneficial?

- Composable Enterprise concept
- How did we get to Composable Enterprises
- What have I done and learned, applying this concept
- Q&A

Transcript

1. The Composable Enterprise The framework for optimal IT of the future
3. Your presenter He has a passion for collecting and sharing knowledge about improving IT in organizations, and is adept with cloud-driven software development. He often organizes meetings, writes articles, blogs and speaks at conferences. Edwin Derks Principal Consultant / Composable Enterprise Architect
5. Business view on IT Implement IT components to resolve business needs and value
6. Email CRM HR Office Identity Printing Customized Software 1 Customized Software 2 Firewall DMZ Integration Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Back-up Off-site Hosting IT Services Office Automation An Enterprise Architect’s view of a business
7. IT infrastructure in practice Email CRM HR Office Identity Printing Customized Software 1 Customized Software 2 Firewall DMZ Integration Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Back-up Off-site Hosting IT Services Office Automation Do you recognize: • Tight Coupling • Scalability boundaries • Data inconsistency • DR and back-up strategy gaps ?
8. Email CRM HR Office Identity Printing Customized Software 1 Customized Software 2 Firewall DMZ Integration Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Back-up Off-site Hosting IT Services Office Automation Who owns… what? CxO IT Manager Product Owner ? Do you recognize: • Misaligned ownership • Out-of-sync backlogs • Incompatible interfaces or protocols • Feature gaps
9. Technical view on IT Implement IT components to resolve business needs and value
10. Monolithic Application Database Micro Application Data- base Micro Application Data- base Micro Application Data- base Are you familiar with: • Cloud migration and adoption • Distributed transactions • Eventual consistency • Unclear source of truth • Distributed monolith • Duplicated data • Misaligned responsibilities • Back-up complexity • Complex release trains • Exponentially increasing maintenance • Increased cost on development and infrastructure • Version inconsistency and Incompatibility • Observability and security gaps The perils of a technical refactoring
11. Don’t underestimate both the technical and business impact of flexible IT infrastructure Leveling the playing ground The solution:
12. Composable Enterprise architectures to the rescue Modularize the business into components that align with the enterprise IT roadmap
13. “By 2023, organizations that have adopted a composable approach will outpace competition by 80% in the speed of new feature implementation.” -- Gartner
14. Composable Enterprise - Concept
15. 1. Enterprise Vision on digital transform ation 3. Enterprise Integration Platform 2. Business Development Teams Packaged Business Capability The three ingredients for realizing a PBC
16. Packaged Business Capability • Represents one single, specific unit of business, and only that! • Self-sustaining business unit with mandate and governance to manage itself • No direct dependencies on other PBC’s
17. 1. Enterprise Vision on digital transformation IST SOLL • The enterprise IT roadmap for the modularization and digital transformation of the organization • Includes strategic aspects of the desired business and IT alignment
18. 2. Business Development Teams Cloud Providers Infrastructure Teams Platform Teams Feature Teams • Dedicated teams for developing PBC’s • Functional driven teams for generating business value ◦ Can be considered DevOps • Technical driven teams for sustaining business on IT infrastructure
19. 3. Enterprise Integration Platform • Scalable infrastructure as a service ◦ Maintained by platform teams • Provides models for PBCs to adopt the infrastructure based on their technical capabilities and needs for support, e.g. ◦ Fully managed ◦ Landing zone only ◦ Infrastructure only • Governed by a competence centre for sustainability of knowledge, consisting of different kinds of expertise ranging from technical to legal Competence Centre Logging Integration Monitoring Database IAM File Storage CI/CD Configuration Messaging Authorization Packaged Business Capability
20. Competence Centre Enterprise Integration Platform The result is a composition platform that levers full advantage of flexible and scalable IT • Governance and mandate are fully contained with the PBC • Integration platform provides security and solves cross-cutting IT concerns • Internals of a PBC are abstracted away behind interfaces, API’s and channels • Every PBC is treated the same within the infrastructure: the leveled playing field IT Services Off-Site Hosting Office Automation External APIs External System Outbound communication Service Mesh Internal API’s Ambassadors Composition Platform External System
21. Key Takeaways 1. The IT landscape must follow the business goals and strategy for which it is set up 2. Responsibilities must be assigned to the right people in the right place 3. Every aspect of the IT landscape must be performed or used by the right people with the necessary knowledge 1 2 3
23. “The future of it is composable” Gartner
24. Statement 1 The Composable Enterprise has no added value, and is just another representation of a classic IT roadmap
25. Statement 2 Applying the Composable Enterprise is the pinnacle of “IT done right” in a company
26. Are there any other Questions?
27. Edwin Derks /in/edwin-derks/ e.derks@teamrockstars.nl Let's connect! @edwinderks @edwinderks@mastodon.social