Accenture On Soa And Cloud
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The document discusses emerging technology trends and their implications for enterprises. It notes that consumer innovations are raising expectations for businesses and that there is a power shift from technology to people. However, most organizations still struggle with basic IT issues. It identifies eight defining technology trends including cloud computing, social computing, and green computing. It also discusses how approaches like software as a service (SaaS), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and open source are changing enterprise software and development approaches.
Accenture On Soa And Cloud
- 1. Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. Power shift: The future of technology and what it means for the enterprise Paul Daugherty Chief Technology Architect paul.r.daugherty@accenture.com
- 2. 2Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. A lot happened in 2007 Market Caps Apple $155B IBM $137B Intel $131B Wii PS3 Xbox
- 3. 3Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. Consumer innovations are raising the bar for business - “gidy” ;) versus “ttswtts” [:(
- 4. 4Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. A power shift from the technology to people
- 5. 5Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. Yet, most organizations still struggle with the basics
- 6. 6Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. High Performance IT Council Survey of 500+ CIO’s Top Drivers • Legacy • Errors • M&A • Growth • Upfront issues Running 30% Fixing 12% Enhancing 17% Integrating 10% Building 14% Testing 10% Deploying 10% Running 27% Fixing 12% Enhancing 17% Integrating 10% Building 16% Testing 10% Deploying 10% Running 24% Fixing 12% Enhancing 13% Integrating 12% Building 23% Testing 9% Deploying 7% Source: Accenture High Performance IT Research
- 7. 7Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. 7 CIO’s First Priority: Investors or Customers?
- 8. 8Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. As a Result, Consumer & Customer Facing Systems have Suffered 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 F&A OpsHR Dist.CS R&D S&M Meet business needs Meettechnicalneeds
- 9. 9Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. 9 Innovation allows High Performers to Increase The Gap Percent of total CUSTOMER interactionsthat ARE online Percent of total SUPPLIER interactionsthat ARE online Percent of total EMPLOYEE interactionsthat ARE online 31% morecustomer onlinetransactionsthan averageperformers 13% moresupplier onlinetransactionsthan averageperformers 18% moreemployee onlinetransactionsthan averageperformers 52 33 53 34 20 22 High performers Overall
- 10. 10Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. Power Shift: 8 Defining Trends 1. Cloud computing & SaaS 2. Systems Integration – Regular & Lite 3. Enterprise intelligence at scale 4. Continuous access to people and content 5. Social computing 6. Explosion of user-generated content 7. Gradual industrialization of SW development 8. Green computing Accenture Technology Vision
- 11. 11Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. SOA is a Set of Standards that Increase Modularity and Make the Modules Easier to Use
- 12. 12Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. Organizations typically move through four distinct phases Phase 1 Organize and strategize Management buy- in and business needs. SOA readiness assessment Planning for SOA transformation Phase 2 Phase 3 Initial Deployment ESB- Based Solution and SOA Platform SOA is industrialized First SOA projects. Convert applications into web-services Composed services to create business processes. Emphasis on strategic and business services. Consolidation of processes and services in creating an ESB Service oriented design and development using SOA tools Services - fabric of business operations Cross enterprise processes Federation Utility and services infrastructure Predictive IT Business Insight Near real time Phase 4 Adoption of SOA: Accenture’s Four stage maturity model Industry Is Stuck Here
- 13. 13Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. The Fourth Wave . . . SOA • Online Transaction Processing (1980s) • Need to automate repetitive business transactions within departments Wave Drivers / Value • Client/Server (1990s) • Business Process Re-engineering • Enterprise Resource Planning • Personal Productivity • Netcentric (2000) • Connect to the customer; customer self service • eCommerce • SOA (?) • Process-Centric Enterprise • Consumer-driven • “Agility”
- 14. 14Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, based on SOA architectures, are disrupting Enterprise SW Business process as a service Runtime-Platform- as-a-Service Application- as-a-Service Integration- as-a-service Development- Platform- as-a-service Infrastructure-as-a-Service Salesforce.comSalesforce.com Citigroup Deutsche Bank Sprint Merrill Lynch
- 15. 15Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. SOA, Web2.0, and SaaS provide a new foundation for enterprise applications User Interaction Business Services Collaboration SAAS Business Collaboration My services are usable (Ajax, Flash) My services are defined and exposed (WSDL, REST) Communities use services and interact generating value (Wikis, Blogs)
- 16. 16Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. Open Source is Changing the Dynamics in the Enterprise SW industry • Open Source Communities • For-profit companies • Foundations, funded by traditional software companies CRM Software Office, Email, Mobile Reporting & Business Intelligence Content Management Relational Databases Framework & Tools Infrastructure: Linux, Portals, Application Servers, Search Engines
- 17. 17Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. New Approaches for Industrializing the Software Development Lifecycle Business Requirements System Requirements Functional Design Technical Design Acceptance Testing System Testing Integration Testing Unit Testing DegreeofAbstraction ComputationalFunctional Degree of Realization Intent Reality Coding V-Model of Software Model Driven Development Domain Specific Languages Agile Methods SOA / SaaS
- 18. 18Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. Power Shift: Questions to consider • Is your company a High Performer? • Are you positioned for the shift to consumer-driven IT? • What level of innovation is appropriate, and how do you accomplish it? • How well does your Company understand its Business Processes? • How do you take IT from a “Craft” to “Engineering”? • Flexibility Matters - How dynamic is your Architecture?
- 19. 19Copyright © 2008 Accenture All Rights Reserved. paul.r.daugherty@accenture.com