A platform is a long-term investment that supports a community by providing shared resources to attract and retain members over time. An organization needs a digital platform to address business demands, rapid changes, and quick release cycles while providing middleware services. The platform should be introduced with onboarding programs and evangelized internally. It is built by developing foundational reusable services and APIs and ensuring seamless integration across common enterprise architecture practices.

1. Platform for Digital
Transformation
Asanka Abeysinghe
Vice President, Solutions Architecture
Strategy for Modern Enterprise Architecture
http://asanka.abeysinghe.org
@asankama

2. Platforms are systems that support a
community. A platform is an investment,
often a long-term investment that will only
pay for itself over a long period of time. A
platform supports a network — a shared
resource — and in order to thrive, it must
attract and retain members.
- Gray, Dave; The Connected Company.

3. - Demand from the business stakeholders
- Rapidly changing business requirements
- Quick release cycles
- Continues integration and testing
- Rapid technology changes
- Provide Middleware-as-a-Service (platform)

4. Do I need the entire platform
?

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7. Give a code name for the
platform. e.g. Digital Platform
Don’t use product/vendor names.

8. Introduce an onboarding
program.
Including samples, documents, patterns and
training.

9. Evangelize the platform
(internally).

10. Build foundation services and
expose as APIs.
Increase the developer productivity and
reusability.

11. Seamlessly integrated.

12. Have a common enterprise
architecture practices across
the organization.
Include architects from different BUs and
architecture groups.

14. New
Ideas
Better
Ideas
Common
Ideas
I don’t know exactly what I
want. I need to experiment.
I know what I
want, but it needs
to be different
from my
competitors.
I know what I want and
it doesn’t have to be
unique.
Systemsof
Innovation
Differentiation
Record
Digital Platform
Business Domain Services
[Can, but does not change often]
Rate of Change := Managed, Medium
Digital Experience
[Can and does change often]
Rate of Change := Uncontrollable, Fast
Data Subject Services
[Does not change often]
Rate of Change := Managed, Slow
Digital
Traditional

16. Mobile,
social, store
Event driven,
IoT
Bigdata,
analytics DevOps Iterative
Cloud native
Open source API driven
{ }
Polyglot
programming
QoS

17. Mobile,
social, store
Event driven,
IoT
Bigdata,
analytics DevOps Iterative
Cloud native
Open source API driven
{ }
Polyglot
programming
QoS

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