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The Digital Race

Enterprises are pressed to improve customer experiences to gain and sustain market share. 

Time to Innovate and Time to Market are the spirits of this new race. There is no doubt that data silos and monolithic legacy systems with interconnected business functions are making the digital race extremely  complicated.  

The Middle Ground

Models like Managed File Transfer(MFT), Services Oriented Architecture(SOA) and Enterprise Service Bus(ESB) are failing to address the time to market and talent shortage gaps.  

Monolithic applications leveraged MFT and ESBs to organically transform them and deliver on Integrated Applications Demand. However, primary business functions within the monolithic system remain in silo–mode; thus, innovations and deployments are time–consuming and cumbersome. APIs, Microservices, and Services Architecture are aiding enterprises in delivering on customer experience, but challenges remain with team collaboration, talent gaps, and accelerating change.

They are granular and technical by nature, making them inaccessible to non-technical members, and requiring technical subject matter expertise to implement and troubleshoot.  The middle–ground is a composable enterprise thinking that allows internal teams to develop custom business solutions at an enterprise scale where code development, system integration, and multifaceted team collaboration are fluid.  

Composable Enterprise thinking mitigates vendor dependencies, custom integrations, data silos, and costly upgrades, and competing roles and redundant projects are avoided with its architecture.  

Composable Enterprise Platform must provide solid architecture where innovations are safe and fast yet mitigate the current challenges that IT projects. 

Composable Enterprise Model encourages agility in delivery, multicultural team collaboration, and composable business functions that are critical for the business continuum.  

A Composable Enterprise Platform Architecture encompasses 4 layers:

1. User Experience Development Framework  
2. Intelligent Embedded Integration Framework  
3. Security & Governance Framework 
4. Business Components Development Framework  

The platform empowers multifaceted teams to collaborate and develop meaningful business functions that resonate with business users. They allow diverse groups to deliver on their shared objectives to accelerate the change. Ideally, a low code or no–code solution offers that edge to each team, so technology is not a barrier to accomplishing business transformations.   

The intelligence–embedded integration framework should transform multimodal enterprise data and curate it for operational research, generating valuable insight from currently siloed application information. It is essential to curate machine learning ready data, which a lot of enterprises are struggling in existing ecosystems. 

The Model

The outcome of the model is fully functional packaged business capabilities that can be standalone yet are not too tiny or bulky to manage.

 In addition, composable architecture allows the internal team to experiment with machine learning, AI, and Automation, building their secret sauce while delivering consistently fast outcomes.  It adds a huge advantage to business transformation without external dependencies.