Breaking the Performance Barrier: Real-Time Analytics for ‘Smart’ Business Processes

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Eric Kavanagh

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

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software, good and bad

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November: Cloud

December: Innovators

January: Big Data


Integration
Data integration involves combining heterogeneous data sources
and providing one unified view of said data, often for the
purpose of analytics and reporting.

Without access to fresh data, analysts and business users are
left making decisions on hindsight alone.

One of the challenges of real-time data integration is the
disparity and variable nature of data sources.

The emergence of Big Data has vendors seeking to help
customers easily find value in multi-structured information
assets without drowning in it.


Analyst: Robin Bloor

Robin Bloor is
Chief Analyst at The
Bloor Group.

Robin.Bloor@Bloorgroup.com


Ideate™
At its core sits the patented Ideate Framework™, a real-time
application-integration platform that links information in an
EnterpriseWeb™.

The Framework offers fast and flexible integration of both
analytics and transaction processing.

Ideate™ leverages mass customization to weave together data,
processes and policies in real time.

Its “Everything-is-a-Resource” approach makes for less rigid
relationships between information sources, applications and
processes.


Dave Duggal
Dave Duggal is the Co-Founder and
Managing Director of Consilience
International, LLC. Dave co-founded
Consilience in 2009 with his partner and
Chief System Architect, William Malyk.
Consilience is the developer of the Ideate™
Framework (www.ideate.com), an
innovative application platform based on
Web-style architecture. Dave is a proven
business leader who has made a career of
building, growing and turning around
companies over the last twenty years. He
has been interviewed on Dateline NBC and
presented at TED6. He is author of several
academic papers on web-style software
architecture, an inventor of a patent
pending software framework, and has
presented at many industry conferences.


TM

Dave Duggal,
Managing Director
dave@ideate.com
www.ideate.com

Copyright 2012, Consilience International LLC

The EnterpriseWeb™
• An application platform based on Web-style architecture

• It supports event-driven processes

• Features real-time business intelligence and predictive analytics

• Includes unified repository of code, data, UI, services and APIs

• It is lightweight, scalable and multi-tenant

• The platform available for on-premise, Cloud and hybrid deployments


A breakthrough in application architecture

The EnterpriseWeb™ makes real-time processes practical from a
cost, performance and governance perspective


The EnterpriseWeb™ is ideal for -

• Adaptive Business Processes / Case Management

• Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) applications

• Sensor Networks and ‘Internet of Things’ applications


Customers and Partners

North America
Europe
The Middle-East
Australia/New Zealand
South America

Partner in UK for Higher Ed Market

Co-Developing Apps with Domain Experts


IT is all about The Business
… but Business needs evolve continuously!

Rate of Reality
Change Gap

Time

© 2012 Consilience International, LLC

Classic 3-Tier Application

Presentation Layer User Interface

Middle Tier Business Logic / App Processing

Data Access Layer Connection to Source Database

Simple, Self-Contained, Homogeneous

Today’s 3-Tier Reality

Dynamic, Diverse and Distributed

The EnterpriseWeb™ Unified Any-to-Any Architecture
On-premise Cloud On-Premise and Cloud

Software-as-a-
Application
Service (SaaS)
Complex Event Processing Event Processing Platform-as-a-Service
A Unified
BI / Analytics BI / Analytics Platform-as-a-Service
EnterpriseWeb™ Processing
Business Process Engine Process Platform-as-a-Service
Platform
Middleware Rules Engine Rules Platform-as-a-Service
Integration Middleware Integration Platform-as-a-Service
Application Servers Application Platform-as-a-Service

Shared ‘State’ space

Database • Improves application interoperability
• Minimizes latency
• Improves application dynamics
• Provides horizontally scalability
Operating • Logically multi-tenant
IaaS IaaS
System • Small footprint that deploys quickly
• Database independent
• No database tuning/configuration
• On-Premise/Cloud/Hybrid
Hardware


The EnterpriseWeb™ Unified Any-to-Any Architecture

Presentation-Tier Devices Browsers Apps
API HTTP API

Single engine for unified and efficient processing
Event Processing Rules Business Process Real-Time BI/Analytics

Middle-Tier Portal Security Search/Discovery Data / App Integration

Personalization Metadata Management Governance/Compliance Version Control / Rollback

HTTP

Web-style repository of loosely-coupled Application Resources and Business
Data-Tier Objects stored as indexed documents for unified enterprise Metadata layer

‘Adaptors’ for distributed services, databases, systems, sensors and devices

REST/OAuth SOAP/WSDL Custom Screen-Scraping


Processes are plugged-in to a central repository

A unified process architecture

Process “A” Process “B” Process “C”

System-wide Logic (Rules with links and metadata queries/algorithms)
Application Logic (Rules with links and metadata queries/algorithms)
Common Metadata Layer

Data Rule
Virtual Repository of Loosely-Coupled Data, Logic and UI Objects
Data UI
Code
Rule
UI Data Task
Data
Data
Task Code UI
Rule

(Including adaptors for RESTful APIs and Web Services for 3rd Party Systems, Databases and Devices, etc.)
Task Code Data UI Data Rule Code
Rule UI Data Task Code Task
Code Rule

Adaptor
Adaptor Adaptor Adaptor Adaptor
Adaptor Adaptor
Adaptor Adaptor

Service API Service API Service Service API Service API


The EnterpriseWeb™ liberates information from process silos
One shared environment for Master Data and application resources
o
No ‘joins’ – seamlessly correlate system-wide activity and trends for true 360 views



Data Rule
Data UI
Code
Rule
UI Data Task
Data
Data
Task Code UI
Rule

Code Rule

Adaptor
Adaptor Adaptor
Adaptor Adaptor



The EnterpriseWeb™ operationalizes business intelligence and predictive analytics
Real-time feedback improves decision-making and supports better outcomes



Data Rule
Data UI
Code
Rule
UI Data Task
Data
Data
Task Code UI
Rule

Code Rule

Adaptor
Adaptor Adaptor
Adaptor Adaptor



The EnterpriseWeb™ supports interdependent processes for integrated operations



Data Rule
Data UI
Code
Rule
UI Data Task
Data
Data
Task Code UI
Rule

Code Rule

Adaptor
Adaptor Adaptor
Adaptor Adaptor



… and enables real-time cross-process Governance (fraud detection, Conflicts-of-Interest,
policy compliance) and system monitoring (server utilization, sensor management)

Cross-Process
Governance



Data Rule
Data UI
Code
Rule
UI Data Task
Data
Data
Task Code UI
Rule

Code Rule

Adaptor
Adaptor Adaptor
Adaptor Adaptor



Perceptions & Questions

Analyst: Robin Bloor

An
Architecture
Story


Software Architecture

The effective distribution
of software and data across
distributed resources


Basic SW Architecture

The Separation of Concerns:
Ø Initially proposed in the ANI-SPARC Architecture for databases (1975)
Ø Later generalized to the idea of
UI logic : Business logic : Data logic

Ø Also evident in the idea of
Logical layer : Physical layer

Ø The goal is for independence of (i.e. the non-intermingling) of processing
that has different goals - while retaining acceptable performance


But: Distributed Systems


Software Architectures



Centralized
(mainframe)



Centralized Client
(mainframe) server



Centralized Client
(mainframe) server

Three-tier Multi-tier Multi-layered
architecture architecture architecture



Centralized Client
(mainframe) server

Three-tier Multi-tier Multi-layered
architecture architecture architecture

Web Architecture


Questions

What is the full area of application for Ideate? What would you
not use it for?

How does it integrate with cloud applications?

How does it recover from failures?

If I understand it, Ideate is designed to build on existing
capabilities (resources). Would it make sense as a platform for
wholly new applications where existing resources were few or
non-existent?


Questions

Isn’t there some kind of performance penalty for late-binding?
In effect, what is the cost of binding?

In many contexts we currently see specialized software built
mainly for performance (Streams engines, Scale-out DBMS,
Hadoop, High-performance ETL, etc.). How does Ideate
incorporate such software or does it simply replace it?

Has Ideate been tested at scale? What is the largest application
built using it in terms of, say, integrated resources?

Which products do you see Ideate as competitive with?


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