Organizations that value having rapid responsiveness to environmental change; with the ability to be highly attuned to both the external and internal business environment, adopt composable architecture.
Why adopt Composable Architecture?
Why? Because it simplifies their ability in adapting to and implement a digital-first approach across the entire digital lifecycle. It sounds easy, right? But many organizations still rehost their key applications to the cloud. It hinders and leaves them with costly and inefficient processes along with frustrated clients and co-workers.
Successful organizations adopt composable architecture. I’ll explain how they manage it.
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Instead of traditional orientation, using efficiency as a goal, the mindset should be aimed at
flexibility/agility (Source: Gartner 2022 CIO Agenda E-book). This is how different elements, such as; scaling storage, networks, databases and compute functionality, work together in different combinations enabling multiple outcomes simultaneously using APIs. In this way, your IT infrastructure can be transformed into a digital-first environment.
Cloud technology brings your organization many benefits, such as agility. We often discuss with company executives their need to achieve the same benefits in their private data centers, with the ability to group IT resources and then provision them based on real-time demands. Having composable architecture in place means that it can be run similar to private cloud services. This is why we are experiencing a trend in the increasing popularity of composable architecture.
Does your business environment offer infrastructure as an Application?
Are you looking for an agile and flexible system in place that will support both you and your client’s everyday challenges?
API Management
Each part of your IT infrastructure is treated as a separate application when using the composable architecture model., It represents building blocks that can be allocated via API Management and managed as code through APIs. In this way, the ability to meet your individual real-time computer, storage, and processing needs become simplified.
APIs bring cross-functional, secure, agile/ flexible systems management required for managing multiple outcomes in your organization.
How Automated is your Infrastructure?
Your privately held legacy architecture has probably been managed in a traditional way, until now. Instead, you can split your data center into packed component parts where we can support you to automate, according to your specific needs and performance variables. As your business grows and transforms it lets you track, govern and partition resources through API management.
Setting up the composable enterprise your organization needs offers a multi-cloud strategy that leverages APIs. You can use API management to successfully; scale apps, services, and products across multiple cloud providers, with the ability to manage them as private clouds. API management also responds to the need for greater security procedures and DevOps processes.
It is becoming increasingly common for organizations to discover they are paying for rising licensing fees and costs for infrastructure due to unstructured, unused, duplicated and gradually phased out services.
Have you identified a steep increase in IT spending in your organization?
When was the last time you had a health check on your IT spending?
It is valuable to invest in minimizing those costs as they can easily escalate over time, while simultaneously creating a rigid nest of new and old APIs and Applications that hinder instead of helping the organization.
First, explore what APIs and Applications are being used across your entire organization?
Then ask questions such as; “Are there any functional overlaps in our API portfolio? ”This enables you to discard APIs or services you target which does not bring business value.
With composable architecture, you can support the wider organization by using APIs to create seamless value-chains and significantly increase productivity.
There is a wide selection of API management solutions available. We can support you in setting up Composable Architecture by aligning and coordinating your API strategy with the partner of your choice.
Top API solutions providers 2021 according to 2021 Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management). Postman and SmartBear are both newcomers in the 2021 edition.
Leaders Apigee (Google), Mulesoft, IBM, Axway, Kong, Software AG, Microsoft.
Visionaries Tyk, Postman, WSO2
Niche players SAP, TIBCO Software, SmartBear, Broadcom, Boomi, Red Hat
Challengers Amazon Web Services
Build composable architecture by using APIs, introducing API management by using an API management platform with key features that fit your business needs.
4. Adopting an Ecosystem enabling multiple outcomes
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