The Digital Technology is making the enterprises to redefine their strategies and reinvent business models. The customer and market expectations are changing dynamically forcing the organizations to adopt “Agile” processes and systems to these changing business needs. “Developing Agile Digital Architecture’” is an important element for the organizations to succeed. The speaker will address the way the digital technologies are driving the businesses to change their services and operations, and how the organizations should develop the agile digital architectures. The session also covers building business, data, and application and technology architectures in an agile way and thereby meeting the changing business requirements and eventually delivering the business goals.

1. AGILE DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE
Vijaya Kumar Khaderbad
1st – 3rd December, 2017 | Westin, Hyderabad, INDIA

2. Disclaimer
This presentation provides my personal thoughts only and does not represent
thoughts / views of my company.

3. Agenda
Agility in Architecture – Why?
Digital Architecture and Agility – What?
Developing Architecture in Agile Way – How?
Summary

4. Agility in Architecture – Why?

5. Agile
Agile is responding to the changes quickly.

6. Architecture
Architecture is a blueprint of the system that enables the
system to achieve its vision and goals.

7. Why Architecture needs to be Agile?
Business Changes Digital Technology
Customer Expectations Innovations
Agility

8. Business Changes
Industry
Consolidation
E.g. SBI
New Players into
the Market
E.g. Reliance Jio
Learned Customers
E.g. Digitally Aware
Regulatory Changes
E.g. Demonetization, GDPR
Disaggregation in
Industry
E.g. Insurance Industry
Increased
Competition
E.g. Amazon, Alibaba

9. Digital Technology Advancements
Mobile Cloud Social Analytics
Big Data
AI, ML, RPA,
IoT
AR, VR …

10. Customer Expectations
Immersive
Experience
Natural Interface
Any where, Any time,
Any device Services
Services on Demand

11. Innovations – Creating New Markets / Threatening Existing Markets
Driverless Cars Electrical Vehicles
Drones Fintech Companies

12. Architecture
Are Enterprises Agile? Are the Business Systems Agile?

13. Architecture
Are the supporting IT systems Agile?

14. Digital Architecture & Agility – What?

15. Changing Needs
Volume, Variety,
Velocity, …
Data is the new
currency (Ref: WEF)
Advanced Analytics
Data Driven Business
Strategies

16. Agile Big Data Architecture
Enterprise
Systems
Social
Media
IoT
…..
Structu
red
Data
Semi
Structu
red
Data
Unstruc
tured
Data
RDBMS
No SQL
DB
HDFS
…….
Data Architecture
should be flexible
Data Architecture
should be aligned to
Business Needs
Data Architecture
should be flexible to
adopt new
technologies

17. Changing Needs
Cost Optimizations
Improved
Operational
Efficiencies
Better Customer
Services
Increased
Productivity

18. Analytics, RPA, AI Architectures & Agility
Analytics RPA
Artificial
Intelligence
Machine Learning & Deep Learning
Big Data

19. Changing Needs
Mobile hardware
technology
advancements
Conversational
Experience
Immersive
Experience with AR /
VR
Omni Channel
Experience

20. Agile Mobile Architecture
Web Services Layer (Rest / SOAP)
User Experience Layer
Business Logic Layer
Smartphone Tablet Handheld Wearable Laptop …

21. Changing Needs
Income Tax Returns
Tirumala Tirupathi
Devasthanam
IRCTC Bookings
Akshaya Trithiya /
Dhan Teras Sales
…

22. Agile Cloud Architecture
Workload distribution using load balancers
Dynamic scalability (horizontal / vertical)
Elastic Provisioning of resources (servers, disks, storage etc.)
Cloud Bursting

23. Developing Architecture in Agile Way – How?

24. Developing Architecture in Agile Way – Option 1
Architecture
Sprint 0
Design
Sprint 1
Development
Sprint 2
Development
Sprint n

25. Developing Architecture in Agile Way – Option 2
Development
Sprint 0
Development
Sprint 1
Development
Sprint 2
Development
Sprint n
Architecture and
Design is refined
in each sprint

26. Summary

27. Summary
• Business is agile
• Business Systems need to be agile
• Digital Technologies are changing rapidly
• Organizations must build the Digital Architecture in agile way

28. Summary
Business is agile
Business Systems need to be agile
Digital Technologies are changing rapidly
Organizations must build the Digital Architecture in agile way

29. Vijaya Kumar Khaderbad
+91 984 888 0821
vijayakhaderbad@yahoo.in
Thank You