After attending this year’s All About the Cloud, Abdullah Mashuk shared a summary about the Boundary-Free Enterprise: The New Master Architecture Presentation.
Presenter: William McNee, Saugatuck Technology Inc.
Discussion Points:
- New Paradigm – mix of technology will define the new era
- Cloud can mean many things to many people (mobile/social/integration)
- Key trends -
- Industry leaders fully embracing cloud enabled business computing architecture
- Big CIOs fully accepted the cloud
- CIOs will tactically and strategically use the cloud
- Cloud is seen as catalyst for rapid innovation
- Sea-change in perspective about the use and value of the cloud has occurred
- Hybrid on-premise + Cloud architecture -
- European / Asian companies leap-frogging in adopting pure play cloud
- New role for IT is emerging
- Data integration and automated workflow remains critical to businesses
- Cloud provider will increase
- Among the CIOs/CTOs the level of importance increased from 2.2 to 3.7 from 2010 to 2012
- Based on a survey results of 225 respondent the on-premise solution remained 50% in 2012 and peaked on 2014; however cloud based solution increased dramatically from 2012 to 2016. On 2016 75% of new Enterprise IT spending will be on cloud based solution.
- eCommere/collaborative commerce solution will increase the most from 2012 to 2016
- Most long term benefit (65%) of cloud is greater business flexibility and agility vs. cost savings. Cloud provider lock-in also important (50%). Cloud based solution exceeded value expectation. 32% say cloud is costing more than what was anticipated.
- New Master Architecture is emerging not from single computing paradigm, but multiple technologies and platform working together. Cloud, Mobile, Social and Data Analytics (CMSA) plus the integration define the new Master Architecture and will make the boundary free enterprise.
- Evolution of IT
- Significant shrinkage of IT staff
- Shifting from client server architecture to boundary free architecture (CMSA plus integration). Intersection mobile and social. Intersection of cloud and analytics.
- Primary mission shifts from business operation to enabling business innovation.
- Mission of system development shifts from standardization for technologies to standardization of interfaces to enable the ecosystem of providers to work together. (both internal and external)
- Standard approach to IT development and delivery shift from buy build and adopt and outsource to vendor subscribe and may be to outsource.
- Integration of data to integration of data and process and processes
- We are in the midst of very significant sea-change