Disrupting the future of

Software

the Aviarc story so far

Shane Mercer (shane@aviarc.com)

What I’d like to share:

1. Our story – from Infrastructure to

Software and beyond

2. Our changing organisation

3. The changing face of the Software

landscape

4. Lessons learnt and valuable insights

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1. Our Story

About Us

• Established in 1993, providing Infrastructure Consulting services.

• In 2003, looking for growth, entered Software Development market. Had

very different outcomes compared with what we were used to.

• In 2004, conceived Aviarc – used a conceptual model to drive the innovative

thinking required.

• From 2005, we had customers – so we could learn more about their needs

and how to shape our offering.

• In 2009, started looking for global strategic partners – we mapped out all the

global players and ranked them. We did this early to learn.

About Us

• In 2012, we finished the “engine” and started the go to market phase.

• In 2013 restructured for growth, now running as one company with a single

mission and approach.

• Now: 70 staff located several countries, Head Office in Wellington New

Zealand.

• Substantial intellectual property protected by a raft of interlocking (process

type) patents.

• First fully integrated software design and development platform in the

Cloud.

2. Our changing

Organisation

Born

again

go!

Our

DNA

Changes as

organisations grow

~20 > ~55 > High-Growth

A balanced team is essential

Learn to be good at

change (ADKAR)

3. The changing

face of S/W

Disruption

is not for

the faint

hearted

especially a Disruptive Platform

Using disruptive thinking,

we will revolutionize the

software industry

All of our thinking around Aviarc, stems from this Core attitude

“What the future

will look like

because of

Aviarc.” The following is a story about productivity

Imagine that anyone could

have created this car

Engineers

Innovate

by anyone

Ideas are conceived and fully

explored

A delighted Customer, who’s custom

car took 220 hours to build

High productivity: ● Assembly blueprint

● Specialised Tooling

● Automated & optimised

● Existing parts

● Pre-built components

Our structured approach for innovation Collaborate Construct Conceive

Aviarc UX blueprint - continually enriched

Business Innovators

Commissioned

work

Virtual

Components

Exchange of

re-usables

Aviarc cohesive user-centric platform, specialised tooling and automation

Value Designers Software Innovators

UX blueprint Specialised Tooling Automation Existing parts Pre-built components Virtual components

Build complex software solutions

without needing deep technical

knowledge.

Spend your energy on creating, not

re-working

Be fast, highly productive, flexible

and able to keep up with customer

needs

Create / sell pre-built

components, compositions

and app-cores

Undertake online

commissioned work

Be a Value Designer

Commercial in Confidence – Aviarc Global Ltd, 2014

How the future roles work together

Aviarc: the best way to accelerate composite application development Commercial in Confidence – Aviarc Global Ltd, 2014

The

Aviarc “in-App” Data Translation

Layer (DTL) (moves data complexity out of the UX)

Create

the UX

Blueprint

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your seat

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App Assembly

APIs / Web Services

Datasets A

PI

eco

no

my

Avia

rc

DBaaS

Frequent

Flyer

Data

Flight

Schedule

Data

Services & Data sources

During describe, everything in

here is created via data/test

scenario’s. Now we need to

unambiguously design it for

the Construct phase

This layer takes care of

mapping the real world

to the UX

The UX Layer (UXL)

operates on datasets i.e.

a UX either transforms or

displays data

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This is where external APIs etc

are created and real

components are created to

replace any “virtual” ones

Systems of Record

Systems of Engagement

The model we’re implementing

Commercial in Confidence – Aviarc Global Ltd, 2014

Then we’ll launch the world’s

first UXaaS during 2015

UXaaS Similar to BPaaS as in

RunMyProcess.com

Design and craft your

User Experiences, then

send (with config) to our

Managed Service

Our Service returns a URL

to an instance of your app

and we look after the

environment and scaling

UXaaS is an essential service of the emerging cloud model Commercial in Confidence – Aviarc Global Ltd, 2014

The golden triangle

Work done in software to

optimize a process

SOA Process Centric (BPM) User Centric

With separation of these three contexts you get

unbelievable benefits in adaptability, reduced complexity and optimization

Work done is software to manage data,

security & transactions and support

application integration enterprise wide

Java, .Net, DLs, SQL

Enterprise / Data Centric

Work done in software to optimize the users workload

Commercial in Confidence – Aviarc Global Ltd, 2014

The revolutionary impact of Aviarc

• Business Innovators Software is your strategic advantage; unlock the full potential of software driven

business initiatives and create mass customisable SaaS (or on-premises) offerings.

• Value Designers Liberating your creativity; rapidly build beautiful software that is free of technical

complexity, so you can focus on the experience, not the code.

• Software Innovators Our platform helps you craft high quality apps, compositions and components,

which are the easiest for customers to consume, in the entire industry.

• End users Software designed for you; it’s highly engaging, productive and personalised.

4. Lessons and

Insights

Fall in love with the

idea, before you

wonder how on

earth to do it.

Conceptual thinking is

key to breaking free

Fuel you

subconscious

mind

Accurate Thinking

is hard... but key

Think Global and get in

Market

Kiwi’s don’t get Scale

Keeping things simple can

be really hard

Getting the best out of Strategic Partners

• Homework – think of

them like a customer

• Patience - they are

often the largest

companies in the

world

• Leverage and Persist

Choices

Partners?

Investors?

Bootstrap?

Board?

NZTE

GAP http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/programs-and-outreach/global-access-program

Calaghan Innovation

Disrupting the future of

Software

the Aviarc story so far

Shane Mercer (shane@aviarc.com)