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Expanding Gloco’s Mobile Portfolio with MBaaS

TEAM 3 Adam Pacelli, Emily Keuthen, Greg Yanick, Reshma Kumar

Agenda

● Strategic Challenge● Deliverables● About MBaaS● Platform Selection● Architecture and Integration● Project Plan● Rollout, Release, & Costs● Success Metrics● Solution Demo 2

State of Mobile

O'Teele, James. "Mobile Apps Overtake PC Web Usage in U.S." CNNMoney. Cable News Network, 28 Feb. 2014. Web. 07 Mar. 2014. <http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/28/technology/mobile/mobile-apps-internet/>.

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Who We Are

● Gloco○ One of the world’s largest manufacturers of

medical equipment, supplies, and services

● Capstone Solutions○ Accelerates business results via mobility by

providing integrated enterprise mobile platform solutions

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Gloco’s Challenge & Solution

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● Challenge○ How can Gloco efficiently create a portfolio of

mobile applications that integrates seamlessly with its existing enterprise applications?

● Proposed Solution○ Gloco will partner with Capstone Solutions to

implement a Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) platform enabling developers to efficiently create a variety of mobile applications.

Benefits of MBaaS Platform

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● Build secure applications to more quickly adapt to changing market conditions and company priorities

● Create systems of innovation

● Spend less time on development and maintenance of mobile applications

● Enable business process improvement

What Is MBaaS?

MBaaS

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A cloud-based service with turn-on mobile-centric features

Configurability

Time to Market

High Low

IaaS PaaS SaaS

MBaaS Features

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Project Deliverables

1. Base MBaaS platform + security

2. Master application templates

3. Two deployed applications

4. Change management and training plans

5. Future road map

Appery.io

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Requirements

● Highly available cloud-based infrastructure● Compatibility with all popular end-user mobile platforms● Cloud-based data store ● User access and authorization● Integration with internal and external data providers ● Push notifications● Data syncing and off-line mode● Server code feature to combine data sources● REST API Generator (RESTXpress)● App Builder UI tool

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MBaaS Architecture

Platform Runtimes

Core Legacy Applications and Data Stores

Enterprise Applications

Integration Services/Bus

CRM HRSocial

MarketingERP

SupplyChain

Sales +Marketing

Mobile App Mgmt

Secure Container

Appery.io MBaaS

External Data

Mobile Apps Data

Gloco Web Service APIs

Appery.io App Builder

User Auth Internal (SSO/LDAP) User Auth External

Analytics

Custom Business Logic

MBaaS REST APIs

RESTXpress

User Management

Cache

Custom Adapters

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Integration

● Web Service APIs ○ from external data providers○ from Gloco

● Dynamic creation of REST APIs via Exadel RESTXpress

● Custom adapters built into Appery.io

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Data Flow Diagram

MBaaS Data Design

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Project Plan

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Rollout

● User enablement, governance, training, communication

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Training

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Costs

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Success Metrics

● 10% higher revenue for mobile engaged customers

● 75% fewer calls to internal sales team for external sales team requests

● 50% faster app development times

● 99% of screen response times within SLAs

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Success Metrics

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Solution Demo

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mGloco Mobile App

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Adam Pacelli, Emily Keuthen, Greg Yanick, Reshma Kumar

Appendix

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Gloco App Experience

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Tools to Build Mobile Apps

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Ecosystem Map 2/14

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Ecosystem Map 1/13

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IaaS vs. PaaS vs. MBaaS vs. SaaS

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Applications

Data

Runtime

Middleware

O/S

Virtualization

Servers

Storage

Networking

Applications

Data

Runtime

Middleware

O/S

Virtualization

Servers

Storage

Networking

Applications

Data

Runtime

Middleware

O/S

Virtualization

Servers

Storage

Networking

Applications

Data

Runtime

Middleware

O/S

Virtualization

Servers

Storage

Networking

Applications

Data

Runtime

Middleware

O/S

Virtualization

Servers

Storage

Networking

Traditional IT PaaSIaaS SaaSMBaaS

Delivered as a ServiceYou Manage

Communication

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