2018/04/02
 
2 Apr, 2018 | 3 min read

Agile Digital Transformation Strategies and Success Stories at WSO2 Summit

  • Vichitra Godamunne
  • Associate Lead Marketing Officer - WSO2

A packed audience of CXOs and solutions architects greeted us at our first WSO2 Summit for the year in London recently! Held in several locations around the world, WSO2 Summit offers C-level executives and architects a valuable opportunity to speak to our leadership, and discuss how WSO2 technology can help organizations create successful digital transformation strategies.

This year’s Summits are held on the theme of enabling organizations to create their digital transformation strategies and put them into practice. Our CEO Tyler Jewell started the event in London with an introduction to the many reasons as to why enterprises can choose the open source WSO2 platform for digital agility. He also gave a brief recap of our performance last year, including the growth of our global customer base and the other exciting initiatives we have planned for this year.

Continuing on the topic of digital agility, our CTO and Co-Founder Paul Fremantle elaborated on why the only competitive organizations in the future will be those that create adaptive digital experiences for their customers. Paul discussed in detail about what he means by an adaptive enterprise, how enterprises can become more adaptive, and the needs of such enterprises i.e. both centralized and decentralized integration, and architectural units of composition. His talk concluded on the point that open source (and open cross cloud) is of immense value in the business architecture of an adaptive enterprise.

Business architecture and the importance of adapting to change also formed the basis of Asanka Abeysinghe’s discussion. Asanka, who’s the VP of architecture at the CTO office, shared the essential guidelines for building a business architecture - understand consumer behavior, seek to create new consumer experiences, select the right channel to engage with them, and take advantage of data to improve these experiences. He then explained how the different WSO2 product capabilities (API management, integration, identity and access management, and analytics) can be used to connect, create, secure, and govern digital enterprises.

WSO2 Summits also feature success stories of enterprises that have used our technology to create digital transformation strategies and innovative experiences for their customers/users. The first of these stories was presented by the Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA), on how they used WSO2’s API management and integration capabilities to create myHealth NG application, enabling better interactions between patients and doctors, and thereby facilitating better primary healthcare services for individuals. Brian Muscat, a solutions architect from MITA who delivered this story, recounted the challenges which MITA had to overcome (such creating a secure and scalable application, creating an architecture resilient to change), in order for this project to become successful.

The other success story was presented by Wheeve (a WSO2 Partner), on how they used WSO2 technology to deliver business value for one of their customers in the engineering industry. Jack Hanison, CTO and Co-Founder of Wheeve, described how their customer faced certain data matching issues in several operational areas, which eventually had an impact on their financial reporting, revenue recognition, and overall customer perceptions of the organization. A cloud hosted WSO2 platform was used to overcome these challenges and improve business operations - resulting in cost savings for the organization.

A huge thank you to both Wheeve and Chakray who supported the WSO2 Summit in London as Partner Sponsors!

The Summit may have concluded in London, but we’re heading to Chicago and New York in June, and Sydney and Sao Paulo in October! If you’re in any one of these locations, do drop by to meet Tyler, Paul, and Asanka and discover what WSO2 technology can do for your enterprise.

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