Building software applications in large enterprises is a complex task. In this webinar, enterprise architect and product manager Tristan Atkins reviews why enterprises struggle to build high-performance software applications efficiently. Tristan identifies opportunities for improving the software development lifecycle. Different technologies and application development approaches are reviewed. Finally, Tristan presents several case studies about how leading digital media and banking enterprises use Microgen Aptitude to quickly build high-performance applications. Rapidly automate complex business processes or create new digital services with Microgen Aptitude.

1. Microgen Aptitude
Build Fast Applications Quickly

2. Enterprise Development is Complex

3. Agenda
Today’s Presentation
 Discuss why enterprise software development is
complex and slow
 Identify opportunities for improving the software
development lifecycle
 Present Microgen Aptitude and highlight features
that help teams to build applications quickly

4. Complex Technologies and Architectures
• Enterprise architectures and their technology landscapes are typically diverse and intricate
• The whole technology stack must be considered when developing new applications and services
SaaS
PaaS
Cloud
Drupal ‘Stuff’
PHP Java
BPMS
.Net Web Services
API
Biz Rules
EDI MessageQ
SQL RPC
ETL
PL/SQL
XML T-SQL ERP
LDAP DW
ODS

5. Broad and Diverse Developer Communities
• Enterprise architectures and their technology landscapes are typically diverse and intricate
• The whole technology stack must be considered when developing new applications and services
Web Services / ESB Business Rules
ETL
PL/SQL T-SQL
SPL

6. Enterprise Challenges
The consequence of complexity is that projects take longer and
cost more to develop and maintain
 Large teams
 Complex architectures
 Skills and expertise
 Resource availability
 Integration
 Testing cycles
 Knowledge Transfer
 Supplier Management
 Release management
 Vendor upgrades

7. Application approach affected by environment
Market economics External Environment
Changing business models
Dis-intermediated sales channels
Increased supply chain complexity
Reduce costs & achieve operational efficiency Business Needs
Manage sales channels and supply chains
Incorporate digital routes to market
Gain first mover advantage
Application Requirements
Ensure financial control
Automate complex processes
Be customer centric
Compliance Utilise existing infrastructure
Integrate IT systems and data
Efficiently process transactions
Utilise data and analytics

8. SDLC in the Enterprise
Requirements
Design
Evolution Software
Development
Lifecycle
(SDLC)
Testing Implementation

9. Software Development Lifecycle
Requirements
Disconnects between business requirements and IT’s
interpretation often slows the delivery of application
development projects
 Requirements capture is outside of development
environment
 Implemented in languages not understood by business
 Software logic is interpreted differently by analysts and
developers
 No simple way of checking whether code meets
business requirements, leading to increased test cycles
and user acceptance testing

10. Whiteboard Deployment … wouldn’t it be nice?

11. Microgen Aptitude
Business User Diagrams “BUDs”
Microgen Aptitude Business User Diagrams bring the whiteboard process into the
development environment for the first time, enabling business and IT teams to
collaborate and to ensure that applications fulfil business requirements

12. Microgen Aptitude
Business User Diagrams “BUDs”
Business User Diagrams form a link between business requirements, project documents,
processes and application logic

13. Software Development Lifecycle
Implementation
Development cycles are slow due to the need to coordinate a
multitude of different technologies and teams
 Coding from scratch is time consuming
 Multiple technologies requires multiple resources with
discrete skill sets and resources
 Availability of resources
 Integration of technologies
 Lack of documentation
 Business can’t understand, lack of collaboration
 Optimising code is time consuming

14. Microgen Aptitude
Intuitive & Graphical Throughout

15. Microgen Aptitude
In-memory processing
Microgen Aptitude enables application development teams to process hundreds of
millions of transactions without the usual lengthy optimisation cycles
 PerformancePLUS Memory Allocation can
improve performance by 30%
 Optimistic Batch Processing delivers the best
Transactions per hour
performance possible where very few or no
exceptions are expected
 Dispatcher splits time consuming jobs into
smaller tasks and dynamically allocates them to
multiple Executors, significantly increasing
throughput
 Fast Enrichment perform joins in memory after
having read in only those attributes that are
necessary. This typically reduces the amount of
data read by an order of magnitude and greatly
improves performance

16. Software Development Lifecycle
Evolution
The ability to change systems quickly helps enterprises to
rapidly exploit new opportunities; unfortunately, many
traditional technologies make it difficult to be agile
 IT cannot keep up with the speed of change
 Lack of code documentation; the ability to understand
legacy software languages or conventions
 System dependencies (& Impact Analysis) : you can’t
change one system without breaking another
 Availability of resources – need for all skill sets, even for
smallest of change
 Off-the-shelf applications aren’t designed to be changed

17. Microgen Aptitude
Business Rules Engine
 Graphically defined business rules enable business and IT teams to quickly
build, control and change business logic
 The Business Rules Engine is embedded with Microgen Aptitude’s business
processes and data flows, which ensures applications achieve higher level
of performance than those built with disparate tools

18. Microgen Aptitude
Visual Debugger
Microgen Aptitude includes an integrated, comprehensive debugger that helps teams to
build and change software quickly
 Visually step through Business
Processes, Microflows, Business Rules,
Database Procedures and Web Forms
– without ever leaving the tool
 Attach and detach debugger from
running processes
 Define multiple breakpoints
 Browse data objects and attribute
values
 Support for multi-threaded
deployments
 Debug multiple projects and elements
simultaneously

19. Microgen Aptitude
3D Navigator
The Microgen Aptitude 3D Navigator provides a holistic view of whole project, including relationships,
dependencies, and data flow to greatly improve solution design and change management processes

20. Microgen Aptitude 3D Environment
Managing Change
A 3D “where used” enquiry enables teams to quickly identify the impact of underlying changes and to
identify opportunities to standardise business logic.
A 3D “where used” enquiry
for a Data Object quickly
shows dependant Business
Rules , Microflows and
Business Processes

21. Microgen Aptitude
The Comprehensive High-Performance Application Platform
Microgen Aptitude is an Enterprise Application
Platform built on a single code set.
 Comprehensive
 Business Process Management (BPM)
 Business Rules Engine (BRE)
 Data and Application Integration (ETL, EAI)
 In-memory and In-database Processing
 Web Applications
 Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
 Service Orientated Architecture (SOA, EDA)
 Graphical and Intuitive
Throughout
 Transaction Processing
Performance

22. Microgen Aptitude
Logical Architecture
 Low latency, event driven,
Business Facing service orientated
Applications architecture
 Shared execution platform
reduces overhead on
Process infrastructure
 Architecture provides
Driven abstraction from underlying
technologies and native
data structures
Service Enabled
 Semantic data layer shared
Business Logic throughout whole
environment
 Enables representation of
Semantic enterprise data model
Data Model  Maps to underlying data
sources, supporting full
Unicode set (UTF-8)
Mapping and  Plug and play device
Transformation architecture supporting
databases, streams,
message queue, etc.
Existing IT  Fully published API for
Infrastructure devices and services

23. Microgen Aptitude
Processing Performance Leadership
Microgen Aptitude enables teams to not only write
fast but also to deliver applications that go fast
Transactions per hour
 Microgen recently ran Microgen Aptitude and
Microgen Accounting Hub performance tests at an
independent testing centre achieving 7 Billion
transactions per hour using in-memory
processing
 Further tests, achieved throughput of over 1.7
Billion transactions per hour when reading and
writing to files and over 800 Million transactions
per hour when involving database to database
processing
 This market leading transaction processing
performance is increasingly required to process
“Big Data” levels of transactions and their related
data

24. Buy versus Build Tradeoffs
Bespoke Application Platform Package
l Integration l l l Integration
l Maintenance l l l Maintenance
l Auditable l l l Auditable
l Deliverability l l l Deliverability
l Performance l l l Performance
l Flexibility l l l Flexibility
l Agility l l l Agility
l Transparency l l l Transparency
l Interoperability l l l Interoperability
l Functionality Fit l l l Functionality Fit
Enterprise Application Platform

25. Thank you
Please get in touch to discuss how
Microgen can help address your
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for Application Infrastructure for
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26. Microgen Aptitude