"Fast IT": Concepts and Examples from Assembla and Attivio

Fast IT: Concepts & Examples

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Presenters

Sid Probstein

CTO, Attivio

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Andy Singleton

Founder and CEO, Assembla

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Ye Old Project Model

• Business/IT collaborate on requirements

• Start with analysts/consultants• RFI/RFP issued, collated, analyzed• Multiple POCs started and evaluated• Politics++ exert influence• Decision made• 6-18 months later, know if it worked


Why It Doesn’t Work Anymore

• How many 1+ year projects can you really do?

• Access to developers has never been more challenging

• Bottom line: you must build an innovation funnel if you plan to stay in business in the era of “Big Data” and “Fast IT”

• Otherwise, most ideas die in the parking lot…

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Testing For Innovation: The 2/2/2 Model

“2-Days”: Explore• Ingest, correlate, and

deliver data from any system quickly

• Allow business analyst to• Answer ad-hoc questions• Verify value of data• FastT IT, not Core IT

“2-Weeks”: Refine• Clean, refine & expand data set• Add data enrichments• Apply basic visualizations• Stand-up demonstration to “sell”

value internally

“2-Months”: Launch• Deliver robust and secure

information-driven application• Fully governed, enriched,

correlated data• Begin capturing value• Transition to Core IT


Silos & Complexity == Huge Barrier To 2/2/2

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Economist Intelligence Unit, Gartner, Aberdeen, McKinsey

40% of organizations believe that decisions

would be “significantly better”

if they had access to all relevant data

Internal Sources of Content & Data

App-Specif ic Search

External Sources of Content & Data

Professionals use an average of 6, and up to 10 interfaces to complete day-to-day tasks

Professionals spend an average of 40% of their time looking for the information they need to do their jobs

On average, IT projects:• Run 45% over budget• Run 7% over time• Deliver 56% less value

than expected

56% of companies state that

organizational silos are the biggest impediment to

effective decision making

Ineffective Costly & Slow

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ACTIVE INTELLIGENCE ENGINE™ (AIE)

SEARCH & DISCOVERY

ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS

PERSONALIZED CONTENT &

eCOMMERCE

ACTIVE DASHBOARDS

AD HOC QUERY TOOLS

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS

CRM, ERP, eDWProduct InformationFile ServerInternet/Intranet Messaging/Collab “Big Data”SaaS/Cloud


SEARCH & DISCOVERY

ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS

PERSONALIZED CONTENT &

eCOMMERCE

ACTIVE DASHBOARDS

AD HOC QUERY TOOLS

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS

CRM, ERP, eDWProduct InformationFile ServerInternet/Intranet Messaging/Collab “Big Data”SaaS/Cloud

DOCUMENTS

CUSTOMERS

CLICK RATECONTACTS

EMAILMARKET METRICS

ORDERSPRODUCTSWEB PAGES

ACTIVITY


Core IT(annual)

Fast IT(monthly)

Gartner’s Laura McClellan:By 2017 the CMO will spend more on IT than the CIO

Web Mobile SaaS

MarketingAnalytics


Some issues come up

Mission• Core mission is to be reliable and secure• Fast mission is to be fast and discover market opportunities

Planning and governance• Core planning is slow and guarantees commitment and reliability• Fast planning is fast and incremental, 2 -2 -2

Maintenance• Core IT systems can be upgraded one at a time• Fast IT spins off a lot of projects that want continuous improvement


Core IT(annual)

Web API / INDEXMobile SaaS

Marketing

Fast IT

Inventory forcontinuous

improvement

Analytics


Launch, manage, improve, in one place

Team

Code

Discussion

Tasks

Next on backlog

Transferrable

Team and Tools

Activity

What’s Next

Active and Archived – All Ready


Fast IT Manager

Director of Digital, Business Intelligence, & Application Development,

“Assembla is our system of record”

• With Assembla he can launch and manage multiple (15+) ongoing short term (Fast IT) projects. Leading edge Fast-IT management.

• Supports his variable pool of outsourcers, agencies.

• Assembla provides control and maintainability of code, documentation, tasks, files and communication


Selected Case Studies

• Semiconductor Manufacturer: moving to ASAP after 2 years attempting 2/2/2 with a “complex” FOSS stack that required a developer to set things up and “constant vigilance around the projects we tried to use” and “standing up an entire team to do data integration”

• Capital Equipment Manufacturer: used ASAP to build a social media intelligence application focusing on their competitors moves; though unfunded by central IT, it identified important new tactics; today the application is fully automated and used across the organization

• Large Bank: “cloudified” AIE and use it instead of legacy toolset (mostly Oracle) to make it possible for IT to provide integrated data to business units who don’t have “data integration experts”


Testing For Innovation: The 2/2/2 Model

“2-Days”: Explore• Ingest, correlate, and

deliver data from any system quickly

• Allow business analyst to• Answer ad-hoc questions• Verify value of data

“2-Weeks”: Refine• Clean, refine & expand data set• Add data enrichments• Apply basic visualizations• Stand-up demonstration to “sell”

value internally

“2-Months”: Launch• Deliver robust and secure

information-driven application• Fully governed, enriched,

correlated data• Begin capturing value

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Questions???

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