Development of business applications on a global scale with the kit of solutions of Mendix

When it comes to solving business problems with technology, traditionally there are two schools of thought: build or buy.

These two methods have their pros and cons. The creation of local solutions allows you to create software that fits your battery. But the traditional development can deplete the resources.

The purchase of commercial ready-to-use shelf (COTS) is ready for you; however, it never adjusts to a complete function. This is difficult because COTS can be difficult to customize. And as we all know, the customizations are inevitable.

Then build it once or shopping once and biting down the bullet in the cons, right?

That's not so easy if it's a big company. The disadvantages of the two methods will only be magnified when you have multiple IT teams that provide services in different locations or business units, and have structures different team, working on processes varied, depend on systems of different plants and comply with local regulations. Built or bought, you are customizing and implementing different versions of the same solution to the same business problem. There is difficulty in the government data. You lose control. The problems proliferate. The maintenance and updates are almost impossible to follow. The costs increase. The IT in the shade expands.

If you want a clearer picture of your IT environment, you must begin to create solutions that are composable and customizable that can be reused and customized according to the specific needs.

Business applications composable and customizable

It has several teams that solve the same business problem with many solutions. To construct a solution is not the answer because they require personalization. So What do you do?

My answer: build a solution.

Sorry, I forgot a word. Create an adaptable solution.

No matter the business unit, each solution will solve common needs. In general, differences arise in the language, the compliance, the central systems and access. If, let's say, 80 percent of an application can be used in an organization, it is inefficient to create a new application from scratch or rely on COTS for addressing these different business problems. The delivery of global applications, taking into account local needs may seem like a costly effort. And, if you are still using the traditional methods of development.

Organizations should create and take advantage of software solutions made from the basic components composable.

Applications sectional are constructed from building blocks of simple and interchangeable that represent different business capabilities packaged. These basic components can be creating and sharing in an organization.

It is important to have this into account, because when it comes to making adjustments with UI/UX, logic, data, or integrations with the central systems (variables that often arise when dealing with many different business units), an application valve, makes it much more adaptable. solution.

Make sure that the other 20 % is adaptable and scalable, gives each unit has a specific ability to make the solution meets your specific needs, without having to rebuild it from scratch, or look for alternatives.

In this scenario, each solution has a kernel immutable (shared between units), a kernel adaptive (shared between units) and then the specific extensions of unit (to be delivered by a team of local IT).

The beauty of an adaptable solution is that it speeds up the maintenance. Instead of multiple IT teams to update and maintain a number of solutions, central IT now manages a solution, which can have multiple instances. This means that they can push an update to the kernel immutable, and the local IT, you can update your enterprise architecture local without breaking your customizations.

Manage it all with the Mendix Solutions Kit

Many organizations are focusing on the creation of applications composable. In the Gartner report " Predicts 2023: Composable Applications Accelerate Business Innovation ", the analyst firm estimates that "by 2025, 60% of the new custom business applications will be created using commercial services reusable through a catalog or market components healed shared".

Companies are using markets or catalogues selected to create a base application created for re-use in all business units. This base application can be adapted and deployed in all regions in a controlled manner. What this allows organizations is the development of global software using IT resources central with the knowledge and experience local. In other words, is delivering the correct solution accurate without making IT central to be a bottleneck.

Let's take a look at how this looks. First, create an original model, has a generic functionality common, but it is also open to adaptation. Some business units may use the original version, but others can be adapted in function of your needs. Will be customized and then implemented in a node of dedicated cloud. This is to guarantee the privacy of data for implementation and operations of decoupling.

The platform Mendix helps you to create better applications faster. Over the years, we have perfected our development capabilities of code under and collaboration tools to help organizations deliver software faster than ever before and keep the pace of current technologies and best practices of development.

That's why we've developed the Mendix Solutions Kit. This new capability enables organizations to create applications composable and maintain control.

With the Mendix Solutions Kit, you can build modules protected, where you can block certain functionality and control what can be adapted.

Once those modules are ready for consumption, you can continually update the deployments while retaining the modifications. That means that the premises deployments are not disrupted when you send global update.

Governance is a big part of the applications composable. That is why the kit of solutions of Mendix provides information of adaptation where you can see the changes in the solutions at the local level and at central level or global.

You can see the changes, see when it occurred, and to obtain information of the solution to help you make management decisions of products and predict future maintenance efforts.

Thinking big

The value of the-code platform low-Mendix is better applications more quickly, and all the benefits you get from that. But that is only the half of it. Imagine simply build a solution to many.

You can take advantage of the investment made in a deployment in all other implementations.

Allows lines of business/teams, local co-innovate with central IT, allowing them to develop at their own pace, more rapidly than the central IT if they so desire, while maintaining the central IT in control.

There is a reduction in the total cost of ownership of all the applications in your portfolio

The expansion of applications is dissipated, which facilitates the maintenance and management at the technical level and operating

That is why Mendix Solutions Kit adaptable solutions is a new and exciting capabilities as the organizations are moving more towards the componibilidad for adaptability.

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