Enterprise Application Platform 3.0 is a Social, Mobile, API Centric, Bigdata, Open Source, Cloud Native Multi-tenant Internet of Things IOT Platform

What is Platform 3.0? It is the new development methodology, technologies and best practices that have evolved since the revolution caused by the growth of mobile, cloud, social, bigdata, open source and APIs. This article explains what Platform 3.0 is, what it is composed of, why those things are part of the platform. I’m not […]

Put it in the Store – The new paradigm of enterprise social asset sharing and reuse: Just put it in the store.

History (in other words you can skip this part :)) When I created publish / subscribe at TIBCO we used to think of putting everything “on the bus.” The “bus” idea referred to a hardware bus. If you know how hardware works information flows between devices in a computer on a set of wires called a […]

The Enterprise Store – App, API, Mobile

This is a story of 2 successful technologies which presages what I believe is a new important innovation. It started with Apple It all started about 15 years ago Apple introduced the iPhone…. It seems like this anyway. The date was actually in 2007, a mere 6 years ago + a few months. Since […]

Tesla : Case Study : Internet of Things

The Tesla automobile is a big example of the Internet of Things and potential problems and benefits of this idea. (My latest blog update on the tesla is here) IOT properties of the Tesla 1) The Tesla has a persistent always on 3G cell connection to the internet that is paid for by Tesla possibly for life. […]

Disruptive Forces : Disruptive Megatrends

A number of analyst firms and pundits have declared a list of the megatrends. For examples you can see my blogs: IDC Emerging Trends and Gartner Top Megatrends I have my own list of what I call “disruptive” technologies and trends. This comes from talking to people, observing what companies are doing and what […]

CIO: Enterprise Refactoring and Technology Renewal: How do you become a profit center to the Enterprise?

CIO’s are being asked more and more to consider being a profit center or at least to reuse the assets they have to reduce costs. They are also being asked to be more agile and to deliver products faster. Some CIOs are being asked to be more entrepreneurial, to facilitate people trying new […]

Component Completeness, what is a complete platform? Using the right tool for the job.

The Typical Organization The typical enterprise application infrastructure looks like this over time. The word platform is very overloaded. As mentioned in a previous blog, by itself it is pretty meaningless term. However, for WSO2 we have thought about what is a platform more systematically. As we built the distributed software platform up from the […]

Componentized Composable Platform (Enterprise Quality Lincoln Logs)

As an enterprise architect we are faced with construction solutions for our companies that must be implemented quickly but need to scale to almost arbitrary capacity quickly when demand materializes and must stand the test of time because it is almost impossible to rebuild enterprise applications once they are successful and in production. There are […]