Increasing Business Agility with Platform-as-a-Service

JP Morgenthal (@jpmorgenthal) - Director, Cloud Computing & DevOps PracticeSean Wright (@wrightseanf) - Director of Innovation Technology and Strategy

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Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving clients throughout

North America.

We help clients implement business-driven technology solutions that integrate business

processes, improve worker productivity, increase customer loyalty and create a more agile

enterprise to better respond to new business opportunities.

About Perficient

• Founded in 1997

• Public, NASDAQ: PRFT

• 2013 revenue $373 million

• Major market locations throughout North America• Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus,

Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fairfax, Houston, Indianapolis,Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York City, Northern California, Philadelphia, Southern California,St. Louis, Toronto and Washington, D.C.

• Global delivery centers in China, Europe and India

• >2,100 colleagues

• Dedicated solution practices

• ~85% repeat business rate

• Alliance partnerships with major technology vendors

• Multiple vendor/industry technology and growth awards

Perficient Profile

BUSINESS SOLUTIONSBusiness IntelligenceBusiness Process ManagementCustomer Experience and CRMEnterprise Performance ManagementEnterprise Resource PlanningExperience Design (XD)Management Consulting

TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONSBusiness Integration/SOACloud ServicesCommerceContent ManagementCustom Application DevelopmentEducationInformation ManagementMobile PlatformsPlatform IntegrationPortal & Social

Our Solutions Expertise

JP MorgenthalDirector

Cloud Computing & DevOps Practice

Speakers

Sean WrightDirector

Innovation Technology & Strategy

Sean Wright leads development of mobile and enterprise solutions for retail, government, DOD, health care, manufacturing and other commercial industries. His strengths include:

• Design of component-based architecture with multiple development methodologies

• Design patterns and development frameworks.

Sean is an expert at delivering simple, yet elegant software solutions with enterprise architecture, modern development tools, and relational databases via mobile, cloud and web deployment strategies.

JP Morgenthal, a published trade author and speaker, has more than 25 years of experience in information technology spanning multiple disciplines and specializes in multiple industry verticals including banking, brokerage, retail, supply chain management, healthcare and federal.

JP is responsible for furthering Perficient’s efforts in:

• Cloud computing through services development

• Sales force enablement and training

• Strategic account support

• Development of programs to drive cloud computing

Businesses are demanding agility

Increased time to market/use

Efficient use of funds

Easy access to resources

Efficient use of resources

Ability to scale to meet demand

How can IT better meet the needs for business agility?

Reduce need for human intervention for repetitive and time consuming tasks

Enable self-service

Increase standardization of platforms for applications and data

Leverage cloud computing to scale in, out and down as well as up

Align IT engineering and operational actions with critical business initiatives

Drive toward a culture of continuous improvement and delivering IT-as-a-Service

Continuous Integration

Continuous Test

Continuous Deploy

Continuous Improvement

Incorporate

Everything Now Touches IT

• “Computers aren't the thing. Computers are the thing that gets us to the thing!” – Halt & Catch Fire

• Cloud is a means to an end that has become a popular term that is rising in interest due to one or more of the following events:– Transition of workplace to more savvy technical individuals– Consumerization of IT via smartphones and tablets– Economical alternatives to acquiring technology infrastructure and applications– Inclusive scale, performance and availability– Value-based products and services with nominal cost for change

IaaSIaaS

Infrastructure-as-a-Service Stack

Logical Transport

Business LogicController Interface

Consumer Interface

Application Platform

Operating System

Cloud Platform

Server Storage

Physical Transport

Controller Interface

Controller Interface

Controller Interface

Consumer Interface

SaaSSaaS

Software-as-a-Service Stack

Logical Transport

Business LogicConsumer Interface

Application Platform

Operating System

Cloud Platform

Server Storage

Physical Transport

PaaSPaaS

Platform-as-a-Service Stack

Logical Transport

Business LogicController Interface

Consumer Interface

Application Platform

Operating System

Cloud Platform

Server Storage

Physical Transport

Controller Interface

Consumer Interface

How Does PaaS Assist with Increasing Business Agility?

Infrastructure & Platform Standardization

Deliver As-A-Service

Scale To Meet User Demand

Leverage Hybrid Cloud Architecture• Easy access to resources• Efficient use of resources• Efficient use of funds

• Scale

• Efficient use of funds• Efficient use of resources

• Faster time to market/use• Efficient use of resources

What You Will See Today

• We will use a Perficient-developed tool called Raptor to generate a web-based application– Raptor takes a descriptor file written in JSON format and auto-generates the

application in Java or Ruby for manipulating and viewing data stored in a data service

• We will then demonstrate how quickly and easily we can deploy that application in two PaaS environments– Salesforce Heroku and IBM BlueMix

• Key elements of this demonstration include:– Increased time to market for applications– Ability to select cloud service provider based on the best economic and support profile

for the business– Speed and ease of moving PaaS-based applications between PaaS service providers– Ability to share common services regardless of where they are deployed– Ability to leverage public cloud for dev/test with option to deploy on private cloud and

vice verse

PostgresDatabase

IBM BlueMixHeroku

Model ORM Framework

View Controller (Business Logic)

UI Layer (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery)

Router

Sinatra

Ruby

ActiveRecord

Raptor

git push heroku master

Software Generation

cf push myapp git push heroku master

Advanced IT Solutions

• Let Perficient assist you in driving increased business agility

– IT Modernization• Cloud computing strategy, assessments and architecture• Infrastructure and Platform-as-a-Service quickstart• Cloud workload migration• API design & development• DevOps planning and implementation• Webscale architecture and implementation

– Business Integration• Service oriented architecture • Complex event processing• Data visualization and predictive analytics• Business process management

– Award-winning vendor partnerships

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