This slide deck will discuss key challenges in achieving a connected business and how you can address these roadblocks via a seven-step approach.

1. 7 Steps to Become a Connected
Business

2. Challenges to becoming a connected
business
● Complex business requirements
● Quicker release cycles allowing less time for production
● Showing and measuring return on investment (ROI)
● Going beyond the bounds of middleware

3. Advantages of becoming a connected
business
● Increase revenue
● Enhance customer satisfaction
● Expand your influence
● Learn and move faster than your competitors

4. Steps to become a connected
business include
1. Convert your business functionalities to services
2. Turn them into APIs
3. Build the community; internally and externally
4. Create new products and services
5. Collect data
6. Build governance and security
7. Improve incrementally

5. To become connected you need to
connect your
● Services
● APIs
● Registry / repository
● Identity / access control
● Internal and external systems
● Monitoring, analytics and audits
● Workflows, rules and pub/sub

6. How WSO2 products fit into your
connected business

7. Keep Pace with Innovation
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