This document provides a business update from Jan Hengeveld, Sales Director Europe for Uniface BV. It discusses Uniface's business strategy, history, growth, customers, and strategic directions. The business has seen over 15% revenue growth and high customer loyalty. Strategic directions include focusing on mobile and cloud deployment, an online training program, marketing, and growing partnerships. The presentation argues that traditional IT is failing and a modern application development platform is needed to enable companies to rapidly develop and deploy applications for the new digital enterprise.
4. Business History
1984: Inside Automation
1988: Uniface BV
1994: Acquired by Compuware
2009: Independent Uniface Business Unit
2014: Uniface BV again…
5. Business
Number of employees: ~140
Office locations: 6 (Amsterdam, Detroit, London,
Paris, Tokyo, Sao Paulo)
Number of customers: ~1,600
Number of partners & resellers: ~250
Company
11. Profound transformation is
happening in the (business) world
• pace of change
• ‘always on’ economy
• consumers rule
• disruption of industries
The new
digital
enterprise
12. Disruptions
The speed with which you can
deliver your applications is a new
strategic weapon
Forrester 2014
The new
digital
enterprise
15. Traditional IT
falls short
“The Netherlands is
spending 4 to 5 billion euro
per year on failing ICT
projects”
Computable 2014
16. IT spend 2014 (Gartner)
$3.8 trillion
80% spend on maintaining
existing systems!!!!!
The new
digital
enterprise
17. Drowning in a sea of code! The new
digital
enterprise
18. The state of enterprise
app delivery
1. IT projects are failing
2. Backlogs are growing
3. The business is unhappy
The new
digital
enterprise
19. How do you break out??? The new
digital
enterprise
20. Apps for the new
digital enterprise
• Implement an application strategy
• Involve the business
• Modernize the apps dev & deployment
platform
The new
digital
enterprise
21. Apply a model-driven apps strategy
and tooling to your systems of
differentiation and innovation
Modernize the apps dev &
deployment platform
22. What the analysts say about MDD…
“With model-driven approaches on the market today
enterprises strive to be more productive and agile in
their application development and more engaging of
the business power user or analyst in the application
development lifecycle. In many ways, we are
entering the new age of the 4GL, in the guise of the
modern model-driven application platform”
The new
digital
enterprise
23. A modern apps dev & deployment
platform
• Focus on business needs, let Uniface
take care of underlying technology
• Model & data driven architecture
• 10 ways to be successful …(productivity,
technology independence, security,
reliability…)
26. Strategic Directions:
Mobile and Cloud deployment
Online Training Programs
Marketing
PartnersUnited & New distribution channels
OverviewStrategy
27. Mobile and Cloud deployment:
Focus on Mobile & Cloud (Uniface 9.7)
Application Modernization (Uniface 9.7)
Developer Usability improvements (Uniface 10)
Mobile & CloudStrategy
29. PartnersUnited & new distribution channels:
Next step for PartnersUnited
Acquisition of new Distributors & VARs
New Distributor startup programs
Close business relationship with Key VAR’s
EcoSystemStrategy
32. Our positioning
Uniface is a model-driven platform for building and deploying enterprise
apps. Our customers run their custom apps on Uniface. These apps
are typically the primary driver for growth and differentiation.
We contribute to a new dynamic business world where Software as a
Service is THE defining factor for the new digital enterprise. We
enable companies to rapidly design, build and deploy great looking
apps across all devices including mobile.
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