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Introducing the Enterprise Mobile-First Middleware
Jesus Rodriguez CEO, KidoZen
About Me
• Hackerpreneur• Co-Founder KidoZen, Inc• Advisor to software companies (Microsoft, Oracle….)• Board member• Speaker, Author• Investor• http://jrodthoughts.com• http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx• https://twitter.com/jrdothoughts• http://kidozen.com
About KidoZen
A platform that powers the backend of the post-web
enterprise
KIDOZEN A MOBILE APP PLATFORM FOR THE ENTERPRISE
Enables Backend, Management and Lifecycle Capabilities
Integration with On-Premise and SaaS Systems
Access to Storage, Logging, Identity Management, SMS, Push Notification, etc.
Public, Hybrid, Private Cloud
Analytics, Data Virtualization, Data Visualization, etc.
KidoZen
Integration : Enterprise
mBaaS
Data Access: Mobile Data
Virtualization
Privacy: Mobile Data
Management
Distribution: Enterprise
Mobile App Center
Analytics: App
Performance Monitoring
Visualization: Mobile Data Visualization
Our Customers
Our Customers
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Europe
Austria
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Czech Republic
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Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Slovakia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Russia
Geographic Coverage
Agenda
• The need for a mobile-first middleware• The DNA of a mobile-first middleware• Capabilities
Enterprise Mobile Needs a New Middleware
Another #%#$!^^%Middleware??????????
Why????
Every relevant enterprise information worker trend produces a new type of
middleware
Historic Fact #1
The Evolution of Enterprise Middleware?
B2B: EAI
Relational Databases: ETL
Software Oriented Architecture: ESB
Cloud Computing: iPaaS
Enterprise Mobility: ???
We always try to apply previous-generation middleware to new-generation problems
Historic Fact #2
And It Never Works….
Middleware Requirements Evolve
What makes mobile integration different?
One of the Endpoints is Always Mobile
App-Driven Integration: The app is part of the middleware
A Few Other Unique Characteristics
• Offline Communications
• Heterogeneous devices
• Diverse networks
• Real time data access
• Small data payloads
We Haven’t Had This Problem Before…
Achieving Mobile Integration Today…
Homegrown APIs
Enterprise Data Source
Data Source API
Corp Data Center
Mobile Data Access via Homegrown APIs
Pros:• Leverage existing skillsets and assets
• Enabler for responsive-design models
Cons:• Non-mobile-first infrastructure
• Requires constant building of backend infrastructure
• Hard to scale (development) and maintain
• Challenging to manage & operate
• No aggregation or orchestration models
• Lack of standards: Different APIs for different data sources
MEAPs
Enterprise Data Source
Corp Data Center
Enterprise Data Connector
MEAP Server
MEAPs
Mobile Data Access via MEAPs
Pros:• Default enterprise systems connectors
Cons:• Heavy and proprietary infrastructure
• Expensive
• Require professional services & training
• Challenging to manage & operate
• Lack of standards: Different connectors for different data sources
We need a better model….
Introducing the enterprise mobile-first middleware…
A mobile-first middleware provides integration between mobile
applications and enterprise systems
Definition
Enterprise mobile backend as a service (mBaaS) platforms are the closest
approximation to a mobile-first middleware and a foundational
component of it
Enterprise mBaaS
Enterprise Data Source
Corp Data Center
Enterprise Data Connector
Enterprise Data Agent
Enterprise System API
Enterprise mBaaS Platform
Mobile Data Access via Enterprise mBaaS
Pros:• Default enterprise system connectors
• Private, hybrid and public cloud friendly infrastructure
• Mobile platform agnostic
• Lean and scalable models
• Productized road map
Cons:• Lack of standards: Different connectors for different data sources
• Back-end system knowledge required
The DNA of a mobile-first middleware
Elements of a Mobile-First Middleware
Mobile-first Middleware
Mobile APIs
Mobile App Distribution
Mobile App Analytics
Mobile Integration
Pipeline Components
Enterprise Mobile APIs
Types of Enterprise Mobile APIs
Enterprise Mobile APIs
•Enable service access to mobile-first capabilities
•Examples:• Push notifications
• SMS
• Voice
• Image recognition
• Location
•Technological implementation: mBaaS
Mobile Infrastructure APIs
• Provide compute, storage and messaging capabilities to mobile applications
• Examples:• Storage
• Queuing
• Publish-Subscribe
• Logging
• Configuration
• Technological implementation: mBaaS
Mobile Enterprise APIs
• Provide integration between mobile apps and enterprise systems
• Examples:• SAP
• Siebel
• Oracle DB
• MS Dynamics
• Epic
• Technological implementation: mBaaS
Mobile Business APIs
• Provide business logic functionalities that can be reused across different mobile apps
• Examples:• Order placement
• Pricing calculation
• Inventory availability
• Technological implementation: Server side code
Mobile Data Access APIs
• Provide querying capabilities over enterprise data sources
• Example:• Odata APIs
• Technological implementation: mobile data virtualization
Mobile Integration Pipeline Components…
Mobile Integration Pipeline Components
•Routing
•Caching
•Transformation
•Reliable Messaging
•Encoding
•….
Mobile App Distribution
Mobile App Store
• Enables distribution of native, hybrid and mobile-web applications
• Integrates with existing MDM-EMM providers
• Enables management versioning, auto-update capabilities
Mobile App Analytics
Mobile App Analytics
• Provides telemetry and analytics about the performance of the enterprise mobile solutions:• App performance
• API performance
• Data performance
Other Interesting Capabilities
• In-app analytics
• API Testing
• App auditing
• Mobile continuous integration
Benefits of a Mobile-First Middleware
• Abstracts enterprise system integration from mobile applications
• Provides consistent system and data access from mobile applications
• Enables distribution capabilities for mobile applications
• Analytics about the performance of applications, APIs and data
Thinking Beyond Mobile
The emergence of the IOT-first middleware…
IOT-First Middleware
• Super-set of the mobile-first middleware
• Enabling the integration between smart devices and enterprise systems
• Relevant trends• Device management• Event driven integration• Real time analytics and data
processing• Developer SDKs
IOT-First Middleware
`Event Integration
Services
Device Management
Services
Real Time IOT
Performance Monitoring
IOT SDKs
Summary
• Enterprise mobile solutions need a new type of middleware
• mBaaS is a key foundational piece to a mobile middleware platform
• The main components of a mobile middleware are: • API hub
• App Store
• Mobile Analytics
• Integration pipeline components
