1. Building an Enterprise Mash-up Platform
Perth SharePoint User Group
30 Sept 2011 1

2. Who Am I? Garry Stewart Solution Architect, Group Manager, Avanade
Integration VTSP, Microsoft
@garry_stewart

3. Warning!
There is no demo

4. Act 1 – The Introduction

5. What are Mash-ups?
App 1
App 2
Mash-up
Functionality
Presentation
Data

6. Where Have I Seen This Before?
SOA Stack
Web Mash-ups
Composite Applications BI
ESB
Workflow
Common UI
JavaScript
HTTP
salesforce
Twitter
Facebook
Wikipedia
Composite Services
Granular Services
Source Apps

7. Composite Application Platform
Governance
Operational
Tactical
Strategic
Composite Application Platform

8. Giving Composite Applications a Home

9. What would it look like?

10. Economies of Scale Application Cost Application Cost Application Cost
Fixed Platform Cost

11. Act 2 – Examples

12. Example 1: Employee Portal

13. Example 2: Resource Asset Portal

14. Act 3 – The Platform

15. Consistency is King

16. Risk Management, Components and You
Composite Platform
Generic Components
Reporting
Forms
Workflow
Visualisation
Application-Specific Components
Documentum
SAP
OSISoft
ESRI
Data structure dependencies

17. Defining The Menu Portal Applications Generic Data Models
SharePoint Site Templates
Common branding
CMS functionality
Generic Data Models
BCS
WSDL
JSON
SQL Server Report Model
Reporting DB Schema
Common Service Layer
WCF
BizTalk
.Net + BCS
Reporting
Reporting Services
Excel Services
Cognos
Business Objects
Forms
InfoPath
XSLT
DataView WebParts
Open Source
LoB Integration
Record Management
Mapping
ERP
CRM
Real Time/Time Series
Data Visualisation
In-built Chart control
Application-specific visualisations
Third-party controls
Workflow
SharePoint K2
Nintex

18. Mash ups == Integration
Data Source 1
Data Source 2
UI Component 1
UI Component 2

19. Integration is Hard
Lonsdaleite!

20. Keep it Clean - Standardise

21. Normal Architectural Principles Still Apply

22. Act 4 – Governance

23. IT as a Yes Organisation
Governance
Operational
Tactical
Strategic
Composite Application Platform 23

24. Become more User-Friendly

25. Provide an Appropriate Reward

26. What does our Mash-up Portal look like again?

27. Continual Improvement
Plan Do
Check
Act
The Toyota Way
PDCA
Kaizen

28. It’s Still Development
It’s just meant to be quicker

29. Structure vs. Data

30. Make it Easy to Discover the Menu

31. Stick to Your Guns
It’s only going to be quicker if you follow the Golden Path

32. In Conclusion….

33. Questions?