After many years of
architecting, designing and developing business focused technology solutions, I
am really excited that I am now Product Manager for Microgen Aptitude. Microgen have a powerful technology platform
that enables organisations to develop enterprise class applications that can
leverage existing systems and data assets.
I was particularly drawn to this role as I can see how the product could
have added huge value in past roles, and helped overcome a number of the
challenges we faced.
During my career I have been
fortunate enough to have been involved in both business and technology
transformation initiatives, and have seen first-hand the challenges faced by
organisations trying to respond quickly to changing market conditions.
From implementing SOA, sales
automation, legacy integration and migration programmes through to enterprise
wide adoption of agile methodologies, they all challenge us in the way we work
together, what technologies we use and how they integrate, and the end results
typically dictate significant change to business processes.
So it is with this in mind
that I get animated about Microgen Aptitude, my company’s flagship product. Microgen Aptitude provides an end-to-end visual
approach to application development that breaks down traditional barriers,
enabling true collaboration amongst business and IT folk. The platform includes all the technology
elements one needs to develop applications including BPM, business rules,
integration, ETL, and web applications. These
elements were designed from the ground up as a single integrated product, which
is based on a service orientated architecture with full orchestration
capabilities. This enables fast development
of enterprise scale solutions without the challenges of a mixed toolset with
proprietary languages (as is offered by some of the mega vendors). Finally, the Aptitude solution is resilient
and scalable and has the ability to process hundreds of millions of
transactions per hour. This all adds up
to a platform that happily powers applications at some of the world’s largest
investment banks and digital media providers.
In this blog, I hope to
discuss the challenges faced by companies today, and how they can rapidly develop
applications to gain competitive advantage, whether they’re to improve
operations, launch new products, or leverage existing data.
Next; the Teradata Partners
event where we launched a new product.
