Modern Architectures: Above the Platform, Beyond the App

Modern Architectures – Dreamforce 2015
Raising the Platform
and Opening “the App”
Peter Coffee
VP for Strategic Research, Salesforce
@PeterCoffee
in/PeterCoffee

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“Platform” Is In the Mind of the Customer
Platform
Compe&tors
Customer
Components
U&li&es

Value
Added:

Innova&on

Diﬀeren&a&on

Fric&on
Reduced:

Abstrac&on

Commodiﬁca&on

If You’re Used to Schematic Diagrams, This is a “Platform”

When Components Become µscopic, This is a “Platform”

When Coders Are Too Valuable, This is a “Platform”

Connection → Expectation; “Every Desk” → Inadequate

“A
study
commissioned
by
salesforce.com
suggests

that
60%
of
Bri&sh
employees
now
use
apps
on

mobile
devices
for
work-‐related
ac&vity
and

nearly
a
quarter
(21%)
use
dedicated
department-‐
speciﬁc
business
apps…
Enterprise apps
boost worker productivity by more
than 34%.”

Mobile Apps Have Become the Dominant Medium

Mobile Apps Have Become the Dominant Medium

Mobile Apps Become a Recognized Salesforce Strength
“Salesforce
offers
a
robust
and
mature

cloud-‐centric
plaSorm
that
can
support

a
porSolio
of
apps
that
leverages
an

integrated
data
model,
with
no

separate
silo
for
mobile.
These
apps

can
incorporate
social
compu&ng

(ChaVer),
analy&cs,
workflow
and
other

capabili&es.”

“The
Salesforce1
PlaSorm
enables

developers
to
work
at
different
levels

of
the
technology
stack,
from
metadata

to
hybrid
container
to
na&ve
code
to

component-‐centric
mobile
Web
apps.”

Even Today’s Hottest Devices Are Tomorrow’s Legacies

Ultimately, We’ll Expect Environment to Obviate Device

The Challenge: Think Through “Device”…to “Experience”

Increasingly, The Experience Is The Product
In two years, 90% of companies expect to compete almost entirely
on the basis of customer experience up from 36% two years ago.
– Laura McLellan, Gartner, quoted in Ad Age Sept. 2014
“We’re not in the basketball business.” - Mark Cuban
“Do what you do so well
that they will want to see it
again and bring their friends.”
- Walt Disney

Modern
Customer
Service

January
2015

We
can’t
all
be

above
average

But Most Companies Overestimate Their UX Leadership

A Silo in Your Hand…is Still a Silo
The
“Search”
feature
tells
you

something’s
wrong

Tomorrow’s
“app”

is
an
add-‐on
to
a
lexicon
of

APIs

Its
dedicated
UI
is
just
a

“serving
sugges&on”

Mobile Platforms are Evolving → Service Brokers
blog.xamarin.com/expand-‐your-‐apps-‐reach-‐with-‐googles-‐app-‐invites/

dzone.com/ar&cles/android-‐60-‐marshmallow-‐and-‐ios-‐9

• UI
built
on
top
of
public
API

• API
is
func&onally
complete
with
UI

• Each
of
our
named
clouds
is
therefore

more
than
a
“product”:
more
like
a

“pre-‐integra&on”

API-First: Enabler for Silo-Free, Device-Neutral Systems
Redeﬁning “Ready For Release”

Lightning Components: Packaging APIs for Non-Coders

Intelligence Turns Multiple Devices Into Unified Experiences
“Taking the connected
devices curve, and
subtracting the one for
A.I., we see…the point
where A.I. becomes so
capable that this friction
flips around and quickly
disappears.”
– “How Artificial Intelligence Will
Make Technology Disappear”
(Rand Hindi, June 2015)

A Connection Platform for Extreme Innovation
Not a Migration of Legacy Stacks – but Integration by Default
APIs
2,700+ Partner Apps
Open Ecosystem
Workflow
Data &
Objects IdentityAnalyticsCollaborationMobile UI
Scalable Metadata Platform
Complete CRM
AnalyticsCommunityMarketingServiceSales Apps
Trusted Multitenant Cloud
Fast App Dev & Customization

modern architectures
enterprise architecture
is being rebooted
modern architectures:
trends & reality
• ivory tower = kaput
• business won’t wait for
diagrams (or data) to be
perfect
• outcomes and verbs rule
• hybrid
• true agile
• metadata, model-driven,
elastic
• pull-focused à event-driven

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Peter
Coffee

VP
for
Strategic
Research

pcoffee@salesforce.com

@petercoffee

in/petercoffee

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