Mile Run World Record Progression 1913 to 1999 (Source: Wikipedia) Rapid App Development Fosters Improvement

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1 SPEED INNOVATION via Rapid App Delivery Successful companies innovate. Custom apps are key enablers to innovation, whether providing or capturing information from the field or automating new processes. Thus, simplifying the development and deployment of custom enterprise apps increases innovation. Invent or Fall Behind Businesses can no longer afford the status quo. Your competitors are innovating, so standing still is equivalent to moving backwards. 3 Disruptive Trends Devices a. Mobile has become at least as important as PC b. Diversity of screens exploding (smartphone sizes, watches, glasses, wearables, IoT); c. Consumerization requires quality UI design. Containers Mile Run World Record Progression 1913 to 1999 (Source: Wikipedia) Rapid App Development Fosters Improvement Custom apps enable new business processes and provide info to/from the field and automate new processes. In fact, Gartner calls them Systems of Innovation. Boost Innovation Enabling your professional Java developers to build apps faster will help your business implement new ideas faster. Docker s express growth is already revolutionizing continuous delivery. Services a. Everything will have an API b. Microservices will take scalability and continuous delivery to the next levels. Mobile Devices - Importance, High Bar, and Complexity of Variety Not only have the number of mobile devices surpassed PCs, but users now turn to their mobile devices first. And they expect an experience comparable to a polished consumer experience. Add the multiplying variety of screens (different size smartphones, watches, glasses, wearables, IoT), and developing UIs even for the experienced front-end developer is ever more daunting.

2 The Post-PC Revolution Speed and Flexibility Trade-off? Pro developers also don t want to get locked into proprietary technologies or tools with dead-end functionality. Ultimately, they are responsible for maintaining and enhancing apps built with RAD tools. Broaden Innovation Making app creation possible for non-developers broadens innovation. Long-tail Apps and Shadow IT Business want innovation and change. IT wants stability and control. With tight budgets, IT can rarely get to all of the custom apps the business needs. This results in animosity, or worse shadow IT, or worst proprietary public cloud solutions. Smart CIOs enable the business units to build their own apps but on technologies sanctioned by IT. Shadow IT 81% of line-of-business workers and 83% of IT staff admit to using non-approved SaaS apps. Source: CIO Insight Simple but Flexible Enough? The typical RAD tools are great for novices, but rarely flexible enough to be extended, used for complex apps, accessing data behind firewall, or deployment on existing infrastructure.

3 Rapid App Deployment Is Only Limited By Your Operations What s the point in developing faster if you can t get your innovations to the users right away? There must be ways to leverage benefits of cloud technologies and self-service without compromising my security. Docker is great for Continuous Delivery, but Complex to Implement Docker is hot because it can simplify continuous delivery. However, early Docker adoption has been led by Web scale SaaS that have homogenous infrastructures and app stacks. Implementing Docker in production requires the expertise and assembly of numerous 3rd party technologies for orchestration, inter-container communications, backup, security, etc. For enterprises with heterogeneous app stacks, hybrid infrastructures, and unique security needs, production implementation of Docker can get complicated quickly. Infrastructure Savings Extracting all the value out of Docker does not come out of the box. For example, the fast spin up times of containers (vs. virtual machines) can enable reuse of idle resources via hibernation, but Docker does not provide this. Workload Portability When existing workloads can be easily containerized and Docker complexity tamed, it is possible to leverage benefits of hybrid cloud like peak scalability, cost optimization, and risk mitigation. Self Service Developers and DevOps love Docker. If you don t offer it to them, they can find hosted Docker easily and you may never know until too late. But setting up Docker in a dev/test environment is one thing; providing Docker for self-service is not straight forward.

4 Simplifying Continuous Delivery with Docker WaveMaker Enterprise WaveMaker Enterprise is an on-premises software platform, consisting of WaveMaker Studio for rapid development and/or WaveMaker Cloud for deployment on your own hybrid infrastructure. WaveMaker Studio Leading Open Standards RAD Rapid Development WYSIWYG, Drag & Drop, Live Views

5 Build Once for Multi-Device UI widgets and components are automatically responsive for web consumption and supports multiple devices. Build installer with a single-click for hybrid mobile apps. Responsive and/or Hybrid WaveMaker extends its RAD capabilities to mobile apps in the form of both hybrid mobile apps that leverage device capabilities to generate device installable apps and responsive web apps that automatically adapt to a user s device. Variables Binding Automatic creation of variables that correspond to data from databases and web services. These variables can then be bound to UI widgets using a WYSIWYG interface. Open Standards No Lock-in WaveMaker builds apps on standard technologies including Java, Spring, Hibernate and AngularJS. And WaveMaker Studio is even available as Open Source. Extensible Code generated by WaveMaker s WYSIWYG Visual RAD Studio can be easily extended or maintained using any other popular IDE like Eclipse or even a text editor. Self-Deploy on any Java app server Just click Deploy to instantly make your application available to your end users. WaveMaker apps are in the form of standard web application archives (WAR) and can be deployed to any Java app server.

6 Embrace Services World Consumption Easily browse through the shared APIs, select the API and then import using an interactive web-service import infrastructure. Perform API health checks to improve API reliability and backward compatibility. Publishing Instantly publish APIs along with apps by leveraging the Docker containers. Publishing the API would make it available for consumption in others apps, based on its visibility. Sharing Share APIs within or outside the enterprise by configuring API visibility such as apponly, private or public. WaveMaker Cloud Docker Accelerator for Enterprise Software that enables enterprises to create and manage a private cloud within their own data centers, leveraging Docker containerization. The platform provides ability to build custom software stacks, deploy API-driven Microservices based apps and orchestrate IT infrastructure effectively.

7 Reduce Costs by Optimizing Your Infrastructure WaveMaker uses lightweight Docker Based Containerization model for deploying and running applications. This technology provides low cost of ownership as it can run 2-3 times the load of a comparable Virtualization solution and significantly lower licensing cost. Dockerize Workloads WaveMaker supports on-demand provisioning of lightweight Docker containers with customized software stacks. This provides the user with the flexibility to pick and choose the software stacks required for the app. Simplify Docker Implementation for Enterprise WaveMaker enables the IT Admin to setup a private, public or hybrid enterprise cloud platform based on Docker containerization model, using an easy intuitive management console. Microservices Architecture WaveMaker enables developers to deploy individual applications in separate containers and scale independently, thereby enabling a Microservices-based app deployment model. If you would like to learn more about speeding innovation at your organization, please contact: Samir Ghosh (650) samir.ghosh@wavemaker.com