Enterprise 2.0 and the New Age Weapons for the Developer's Arsenal
Speaker: Vignesh Swaminathan A major chunk of the software industry for long has been fueled by the technology needs of enterprises. This has always had direct impact on the tech community more specifically software developers. Every new wave has given rise to a new set of skills and at the same time obsoleted other tech skills. The days of ERP implementation and Y2K are good examples of such waves. Enterprise software unlike consumer software is valued more per license and this value is also transferred to the people with the right matching skills. This makes it necessary for the enterprise IT community to always be ready and prepared to meet the new wave of enterprise technology innovation. Though there have been continued changes in the enterprise IT world, there has also been a constant and stable pattern and that is the pattern of 'abstraction'. With every change the old layer of software have been slowly abstracted by new layers of software. This pattern of abstraction has continued till date and today the last layer of abstraction is the Business Process Management (BPM) and Composite Applications. This new technology has successfully abstracted the previous technology layer of ERP and has found wide adoption for the last three years and has gained maturity now. This new abstraction layer also brings with it new skill sets of model driven development, pushing the enterprise IT workforce more towards business than towards technology depth. This change has also been noted and voiced by industry analysts from Gartner and others. Lesser emphasis on coding/programming and more emphasis on understanding business logic is the key here. Going forward, developers would have to make a choice between enterprise IT and hard core software development in product companies which are focused on creating newer abstraction layers. This session will throw light on the current environment in enterprise IT adoption and the new skill sets needed to be in the forefront of the enterprise IT workforce.
Speaker: Vignesh Swaminathan A major chunk of the software industry for long has been fueled by the technology needs of enterprises. This has always had direct impact on the tech community more specifically software developers. Every new wave has given rise to a new set of skills and at the same time obsoleted other tech skills. The days of ERP implementation and Y2K are good examples of such waves. Enterprise software unlike consumer software is valued more per license and this value is also transferred to the people with the right matching skills. This makes it necessary for the enterprise IT community to always be ready and prepared to meet the new wave of enterprise technology innovation. Though there have been continued changes in the enterprise IT world, there has also been a constant and stable pattern and that is the pattern of 'abstraction'. With every change the old layer of software have been slowly abstracted by new layers of software. This pattern of abstraction has continued till date and today the last layer of abstraction is the Business Process Management (BPM) and Composite Applications. This new technology has successfully abstracted the previous technology layer of ERP and has found wide adoption for the last three years and has gained maturity now. This new abstraction layer also brings with it new skill sets of model driven development, pushing the enterprise IT workforce more towards business than towards technology depth. This change has also been noted and voiced by industry analysts from Gartner and others. Lesser emphasis on coding/programming and more emphasis on understanding business logic is the key here. Going forward, developers would have to make a choice between enterprise IT and hard core software development in product companies which are focused on creating newer abstraction layers. This session will throw light on the current environment in enterprise IT adoption and the new skill sets needed to be in the forefront of the enterprise IT workforce.