In my last blog post, I mentioned James Staten’s 2013 predictions about the cloud. In this post, we’ll look at some predictions in detail, as well as how Cordys Cloud fits neatly into these predictions.
Recently, the CEO of a Cordys customer, Mark de Simone, from CloudItalia, came to me with the question: “How do you explain the Cordys Cloud offering to people who are not knowledgeable about the cloud and yet have major corporate responsibilities?” Let me give it a try, but please be aware that in the new age of cloud computing we are all equally unsophisticated…
Improved operations – cloud, on-premise or both – you need choice
First of all, I’m assuming that your organization is operating on a well- equipped and established IT and business application infrastructure – business as usual, otherwise you can’t do business. Secondly, I’m assuming that you have new business opportunities that pose a challenge for your existing business application landscape. Imagine, you are about to take an important business decision and ask questions like: do I customize my application landscape, or am I looking for an alternative solution? Probably, you know that more customizations don’t fix the problem. Actually, what is the problem? In my view, you could summarize it as follows: lack of flexibility when you need to introduce new products into your value-chain, lack of agility when new rules of the game are in play, or, lack of support for continuous improvement when efficiency demands optimal business operations.
The traditional gap between Business and IT
This is where Cordys BOP (Business Operations Platform) comes into the picture, which delivers the aforementioned agility, flexibility and efficiency over and above your existing operations, without destroying your business and IT assets.
How? You can do so in three ways: one, order Cordys BOP as a managed service from the Cloud. Two, order from your partners as value-add Cordys Cloud providers. Three, order BOP on-premise directly from Cordys.
In the cloud, there is no upfront investment in software, hardware and contingency planning for your operations support for Cordys BOP. There is no threat to your business continuity, as there are multiple providers of Cordys Cloud. And you get better service for better business operations.
Let me tell you something more about developing applications for Cordys Cloud. This will touch some other aspects of James Staten’s 2013 predictions “We’ll Finally Get Real About Cloud” that he recently made on Forbes.com.
As you might remember from my last post, James Staten’s 2013 predictions are:
- We’ll finally stop saying – “everything is going cloud”.
- Cloud and mobile will become one.
- We’ll stop stressing about cloud SLAs.
- We’ll get real about cost modeling.
- Infrastructure and Operations will free the development teams to build apps in the cloud.
- We’ll get real about using the cloud for backup & DR.
- We’ll stop equating cloud with commodity.
- We’ll stop equating cloud with AWS.
- We’ll acknowledge that advanced virtualization is a good thing, and no, it’s not a cloud.
- Developers will awaken too: Development isn’t all that different in the cloud.
Mobility and cloud - becoming one
Cordys Cloud has a very compelling Mobility offering. To develop mobile solutions, we offer an HTML5 based SDK and an optional native app that acts as a bridge between Cordys Cloud and the HTML5 rendering engine of your device. We have chosen an HTML5 based approach to enable immediate delivery of your mobile solutions without going through the device manufacturer appstore hassle. Now, you can build rapidly new mobile applications that connect business applications and business processes with your mobile workforce and/or customer and/or partners.
The Cordys Mobile Native App
For developers, it is important to know that we have chosen a technology stack that is familiar to you. It is based on HTML5, JavaScript, Jquery, JQueryMobile, Knockout.js, PhoneGap, etc. We have added jQuery-based Cordys BOP plugins to interact with our BPM engine, our Case engine, our Task Management services and our native device capabilities. When you are participating in our Cordys Community, you have access to the HTML5 documentation and knowledge sharing platform. Cordys Cloud allows you to develop and deploy your mobile applications that deal with your mobile-processes and connect to your on-premise application services.
Support for developer collaboration in the cloud
How does Cordys support developers? Check out our Cordys Academy website. You can find all our training manuals and certification programs available online. Cordys Academy has also a VM which is helpful in training, with a configured BOP, pre-cooked for you to start developing Cordys based applications on your own PC. When your development phase is over and you want to perform a test with your team and ‘end-users’, you can subscribe to Cordys Cloud for performing your Test and Acceptance cycles. Cordys Cloud offers you also a team-development setup so you can develop together and collaborate on the required solutions. More information on the free Cordys BOP Developer VM can be found here. (registration required :-) ).
How to develop? Cordys BOP has a Cloud IDE for designers built in, our Collaborative WorkSpace (CWS). This IDE is capable of managing development projects, correlating the right designers with the distinguished design artifacts. Thus, it allows building the solution and packaging it up for deployment of the Test-, Acceptance- and Deployment environment, either on-premise or Cordys Cloud based. Cordys CWS works together with Eclipse IDE to support your coding jobs, such as your Java, Javascript, HTML, etc. All the individual elements of your software project get packaged together into a Cordys Application Package. Our Cordys Application Package technology is compatible with on-premise and Cordys Cloud deployment.
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