What is a Connected Business? Its a business where all parts of the value chain can interact digitally. This presentation talks about how to create a Connected Business, how APIs, Cloud and Mobile can create and enhance new business models. Covered in the session is: * The importance of APIs to your organization * How Cloud development can be transformative * How to integrate Mobile and IoT to create a Connected Business * How companies have connected their ecosystems

1. The Evolution of a Connected Business
A six step plan
Paul Fremantle
CTO and Co-Founder, WSO2
paul@wso2.com @pzfreo #wso2

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4. Batch File Transfer

6. Dec 6th 2000 – eBay launches “developer.ebay.com”

7. Connected Car
Credits: https://angel.co/carvoyant

8. Connected Car of the Year 2013 – Mercedes
Benz S Class
• Connected Car is reconnecting car makers to their
customers
• Creating new ecosystems of App Providers
• Creating new Big Data

9. Connected
Home
Credits: http://www.techspot.com/news/55214-samsung-lays-groundwork-for-connected-homes-with-smart-home-platform.html

10. Connected
Health

11. Connected Supply Chain

12. Connected Government

13. *
“IoT Will Change The Way Businesses Do Business”

14. Connected Everything

15. Connected X
• Connected Retail
• Connected Banking
• Connected Insurance
• Connected Manufacturing
• Connected Telecoms
• Connected Truck

17. Six Steps to a
Connected Business
Internal
Integration
API
Management
Federated
Security
Enterprise
App Store and
Social
Ecosystem
Big Data

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20. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hinchcliffe/running-your-soa-like-a-web-startup/525
Use API Management
approaches internally

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23. Offer and
Manage APIs
to the rest of
the world

24. API First
API
Mobile App
Website

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26. Federate Security

27. Federated Security
• Is solving complex identity and access management
problems
• Federation:
Minimizes Passwords
Supports ecosystems
Improves user experience

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29. The Enterprise Store

30. Enterprise Store
• For Apps, APIs, Mobile, Data, and more
• Manages subscriptions and notifications
• Engages with Social Networks
• Provides governance

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/1stpix_diecast_dioramas/

33. Ecosystems
• Allow smaller organizations to compete more broadly
– Utilize partners, expand reach
• Allow larger organizations to compete more nimbly
– By working with smaller, more agile partners!
• Enable “best-of-breed” capabilities to conjoin to create
better solutions
• Take advantage of APIs and promote APIs
– A virtuous circle

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36. Start collecting and analyzing (big) data

37. Real time analytics
• The “Speed Layer”
• Use the data while it is relevant
• Geographic and Time based queries
• Can you handle a million events a second?

38. Understanding a Connected Business

39. Who is doing this?

40. • The only company to build a complete platform for a
Connected Business in a single codebase
• The only company to have the same platform deploy
on-premise, in private cloud, and in a public cloud

43. Invention comes in many
forms and at many scales.
The most radical and
transformative of inventions
are often those that empower
others to unleash their
creativity – to pursue their
dreams.
Jeff Bezos

44. Thank you
paul@wso2.com
http://wso2.com/contact
http://pzf.fremantle.org
@pzfreo
#wso2