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Bank of America Merrill LynchGlobal Markets & Research Technology

The Next Generation Enterprise

Iain MortimerMarch 2010

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Agenda

• Nature of the Future Business Environment• Technical needs of the future• Forecasting technical showers for the cloud

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Future Business Environment(An IT practitioner perspective)• Globalisation• Regulation• Technology

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Globalisation

• Continuing emergence of global organisations

• Consolidation of product/service providers• Maturity of multi-sourcing• Peak Oil - ~2016?• Asia/Latam economic growth

(Requires Systems Integration, Inter-operation and Security)

(Requires Systems Integration, Inter-operation and Security)

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Regulation

• Financial Services–Coordinated multi-regulator activity–Dive for transparency (bi-temporality)–Demands frequent, timely data–Product complexity continues to grow

• Non Financial Services–E.g. Pharma, Transport

(Requires advanced Data Management)(Requires advanced Data Management)

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Technology

• IT advances–Greater compute and storage capacity–Appliances–Intelligent machines?

• Bio-technology–Health, Agriculture

• Quantum–Manipulation of matter

(Requires designing for change)(Requires designing for change)

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Technical needs of the future

• Integration• Inter-operation• Security (Identity & Role)• Data Management• Flexibility

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Integration(Moving data between organisations)• Promise of SOA taking time to arrive• A large organisation’s middleware choices can profoundly hinder supply side partners

• Most middleware drives vendor lock-in–JMS – is an API standard–AMQP – is a wire protocol

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Inter-operation

• Fire and forget requests will not be enough in the future.

• Externalising demand, latency, system problems across the full IT supply chain will be key differentiators

–Agile Business Process Definition–Monitoring

• Dynamic Capacity Trading Exchanges

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Security (Identity & Role)

• Organisation’s IT will no longer be a fortress.–Bank of America Merrill Lynch Wealth

• Pervasive Identity standardised entitlements frameworks will be needed

• Data–loss & recovery–Interception & watermarking–Audit

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Data Management

• Shift in systems design thinking–Traditional focus on “data at rest”–Must encompass “data in transit”

• Semantic web still has very poor adoption• Certain verticals developing key standards

–Financial Services – FPML, FIX–FMCG - EDI

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Flexibility

• Application virtualisation will have a big impact on developers (finally)

–Environmental management–Packaging

• Developers will have to think more architecturally

–Distributed design issues –Design for n+1

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Next Generation Architecture

• Future Business models and IT execution styles will force a shift in the dynamics of systems

• These issues will hinder business growth until resolved

• Architecture practice will be more like understanding bird’s wings in flight - than using traditional construction analogies

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Forecasting Technical Showers for the Cloud – settled weather to follow• Enterprises must first fully understand their execution state – over their (perceived) configuration state

• Cloud providers must support a wide variety of platforms on demand and focus on reducing the technical issues highlighted here