Cloud has become a popular tool, representing a much larger problem domain that encompasses: Consumerization of IT via smartphones and tablets Knowledge of smartest and best solutions available to the enterprise at a reasonable cost Inclusive scale, performance and availability for enterprise applications at no additional cost Value-based products and services with nominal cost for change These four factors drive business agility, which is the number one reason businesses are considering cloud according to Gartner Group. Still, for many, cloud represents an intangible entity requiring tangible examples to bring the value proposition to life. Learn how you can: Leverage emerging IT capabilities afforded by cloud, PaaS and DevOps automation Demonstrate the speed and ease with which you can deploy modern cloud applications across multiple cloud service providers Drive agility within your organization with cloud solutions

1. Increasing Business Agility with Platform-as-a-Service
JP Morgenthal (@jpmorgenthal) - Director, Cloud Computing & DevOps Practice
Sean Wright (@wrightseanf) - Director of Innovation Technology and Strategy
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2. Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving clients throughout
North America.
We help clients implement business-driven technology solutions that integrate business
processes, improve worker productivity, increase customer loyalty and create a more agile
enterprise to better respond to new business opportunities.
About Perficient

3. • Founded in 1997
• Public, NASDAQ: PRFT
• 2013 revenue $373 million
• Major market locations throughout North America
• Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus,
Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fairfax, Houston, Indianapolis,
Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York City,
Northern California, Philadelphia, Southern California,
St. Louis, Toronto and Washington, D.C.
• Global delivery centers in China, Europe and India
• >2,100 colleagues
• Dedicated solution practices
• ~85% repeat business rate
• Alliance partnerships with major technology vendors
• Multiple vendor/industry technology and growth awards
Perficient Profile

4. BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
Business Intelligence
Business Process Management
Customer Experience and CRM
Enterprise Performance Management
Enterprise Resource Planning
Experience Design (XD)
Management Consulting
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
Business Integration/SOA
Cloud Services
Commerce
Content Management
Custom Application Development
Education
Information Management
Mobile Platforms
Platform Integration
Portal & Social
Our Solutions Expertise

5. JP Morgenthal
Director
Cloud Computing & DevOps Practice
Speakers
Sean Wright
Director
Innovation Technology & Strategy
Sean Wright leads development of mobile and enterprise
solutions for retail, government, DOD, health care,
manufacturing and other commercial industries. His strengths
include:
• Design of component-based architecture with multiple
development methodologies
• Design patterns and development frameworks.
Sean is an expert at delivering simple, yet elegant software
solutions with enterprise architecture, modern development
tools, and relational databases via mobile, cloud and web
deployment strategies.
JP Morgenthal, a published trade author and speaker,
has more than 25 years of experience in information
technology spanning multiple disciplines and specializes
in multiple industry verticals including banking,
brokerage, retail, supply chain management, healthcare
and federal.
JP is responsible for furthering Perficient’s efforts in:
• Cloud computing through services development
• Sales force enablement and training
• Strategic account support
• Development of programs to drive cloud computing

6. Businesses are demanding agility

7. Increased time to market/use

8. Efficient use of funds

9. Easy access to resources

10. Efficient use of resources

11. Ability to scale to meet demand

12. How can IT better meet the needs for business agility?

13. Reduce need for human intervention for repetitive and
time consuming tasks

14. Enable self-service

15. Increase standardization of platforms for applications and
data

16. Leverage cloud computing to scale in, out and down as
well as up

17. Align IT engineering and operational actions with
critical business initiatives

18. Drive toward a culture of continuous improvement and
delivering IT-as-a-Service
Continuous Integration
Continuous Test
Continuous Deploy
Continuous Improvement
Incorporate

19. Everything Now Touches IT
• “Computers aren't the thing. Computers are the thing that gets us
to the thing!” – Halt & Catch Fire
• Cloud is a means to an end that has become a popular term that is
rising in interest due to one or more of the following events:
– Transition of workplace to more savvy technical individuals
– Consumerization of IT via smartphones and tablets
– Economical alternatives to acquiring technology infrastructure and applications
– Inclusive scale, performance and availability
– Value-based products and services with nominal cost for change

20. IaaSIaaS
Infrastructure-as-a-Service Stack
Logical Transport
Business Logic
Controller Interface
Consumer Interface
Application Platform
Operating System
Cloud Platform
Server Storage
Physical Transport
Controller Interface
Controller Interface
Controller Interface
Consumer Interface

21. SaaSSaaS
Software-as-a-Service Stack
Logical Transport
Business Logic
Consumer Interface
Application Platform
Operating System
Cloud Platform
Server Storage
Physical Transport

22. PaaSPaaS
Platform-as-a-Service Stack
Logical Transport
Business Logic
Controller Interface
Consumer Interface
Application Platform
Operating System
Cloud Platform
Server Storage
Physical Transport
Controller Interface
Consumer Interface

23. How Does PaaS Assist with Increasing
Business Agility?
Infrastructure & Platform Standardization
Deliver As-A-Service
Scale To Meet User Demand
Leverage Hybrid Cloud Architecture
• Easy access to resources
• Efficient use of resources
• Efficient use of funds
• Scale
• Efficient use of funds
• Efficient use of resources
• Faster time to market/use
• Efficient use of resources

24. What You Will See Today
• We will use a Perficient-developed tool called Raptor to generate a web-
based application
– Raptor takes a descriptor file written in JSON format and auto-generates the
application in Java or Ruby for manipulating and viewing data stored in a data service
• We will then demonstrate how quickly and easily we can deploy that
application in two PaaS environments
– Salesforce Heroku and IBM BlueMix
• Key elements of this demonstration include:
– Increased time to market for applications
– Ability to select cloud service provider based on the best economic and support profile
for the business
– Speed and ease of moving PaaS-based applications between PaaS service providers
– Ability to share common services regardless of where they are deployed
– Ability to leverage public cloud for dev/test with option to deploy on private cloud and
vice verse

25. Postgres
Database
IBM BlueMix
Heroku
Model ORM Framework
View Controller (Business Logic)
UI Layer (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery)
Router
Sinatra
Ruby
ActiveRecord
Raptor
git push heroku master
Software Generation
cf push myapp git push heroku master

26. Advanced IT Solutions
• Let Perficient assist you in driving increased business agility
– IT Modernization
• Cloud computing strategy, assessments and architecture
• Infrastructure and Platform-as-a-Service quickstart
• Cloud workload migration
• API design & development
• DevOps planning and implementation
• Webscale architecture and implementation
– Business Integration
• Service oriented architecture
• Complex event processing
• Data visualization and predictive analytics
• Business process management
– Award-winning vendor partnerships

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