Sankar Vema - Blog Space

We are witnessing a major shift in the Enterprise App Paradigm . This is going to dictate how IT service providers are design / refine their offering. Gone are the days when IT Service are pure resource body shops, gone are the days when IT services are big ERP resellers, gone are the days when IT seller are hear and build (bespoke) application developers. Now, gone are the days when IT seller are service integrators. Today customer are looking at IT services provides to provide more than just value driven services. Customer are looking for true innovation delivery. For this to happen, IT service providers need to shift their focus and re-emphasize on customer centric (customized) innovation delivery in their offering messaging. This is not a simple thing that is said and done. For an IT service company to competitive, they need to reinvent themselves and overhaul their operational model. The current model service delivery to me rebuilt on an agile factory based models where in standa...

I have been tracking the  paradigm shifts (long since my college days) as the technology evolves. Seen the days of single machine / single user / silo applications to the current trend of complex, distributed, multi-cloud, auto scaling systems. If that is not enough the disruption of machine to machine communication in the form of Internet of Things taking this to a next level. This did not happen overnight. It is a sequential evolution of technology over multiple grow-stabilize cycles over the last 50 years with each new technology triggering a new cycle. Now the rapid adoption of cloud, big data coupled with newer technologies triggering the new cycle which is going to reshape the fundamental of enterprise application development and consumption models. In this new shift that we are witness now... OOP is no longer would be the preferred programming style Next generation application architecture pattern to address auto-scaling, fail safe mechanism Next generation a...

Uh very hectic day... do not wanted to drop on "Learn something interesting today". Wanted to find out options for Augmented Reality development for new projects planning to kick off tomorrow. Here is what I found... what I think a very rare and interesting comparison on Augmented Reality SDKs. A feast for AR aspirant. Enjoy!!! http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/augmented-reality-sdks

Last night during the dinner chat with one of my old school pal, we stumbled on the topic of current issues that enterprises are stuck with. It went on almost for 30 mins. But what made it less interesting to me is that whole discussion was around cost cutting, our sourcing, rationalization etc., It is really boring, we are still taking about the tip of iceberg. But the question is due we really know what the real challenges are. I am not talking about a laundry list with 30/40/50 items. I am looking why we really have those items? (whatever the count is). I could not get this out of mind and started listing, order, consolidating, prioritizing those items to make sure I am completely confident that as a consultant I am doubly sure about them. Of course, it is debatable. But this is what I think are core problem and rest of list is the symptoms. 1. Dynamic market conditions are forcing business to adopt rapidly while IT is able to respond to this 2. Day by day IT is becoming exp...

Over last two decades we have seen enterprise application landscape changing very rapidly with rapidly evolving technology stacks and changing industry dynamics. It is time for another paradigm shift in terms of how we conceptualize, design, develop, test and maintain our applications to meet volatile business requirements. Some of the prime features of this evolving paradigm Flexible business user centric infrastructure (than IT centric) IT as a service model with emphasis on user self service. Flexible development and deployment infrastructure which is readily available over cloud (no setup time, no high budgets and initial spending) Develop application using modern development languages which help improve the developer Usage of more dynamic meta programming languages Reusable assets, code generators, ... Build once and run anywhere across platforms and devices End-to-End application lifecycle integration through ALM and DevOps Improve communication and collaborat...

Further to my previous post on the webinars , session recordings now available online Jan 25th Cloud Computing Strategies for Enterprise You Tube Techgig Feb 2nd Cloud Implementation Scenarios for Enterprise You Tube Techgig

We are doing webinar series on Cloud Computing Strategies this month. You can join at the below links 25 th  Jan session:  Cloud Computing Strategies for Enterprise 2 nd  Feb session:  Cloud Implementation Scenarios for Enterprise Recordings of above webinars are available online shortly.