Enterprise software describes the software layer of an enterprise computing platform used by business organizations to process data. It is primarily associated with software applications operated by users and stakeholders of an enterprise to process data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The common building blocks of a modern enterprise cloud computing platform are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While no organization can function without enterprise software these days, how they design their software platform varies enormously. There are normally four layers to the enterprise applications software stack:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These are large and expensive software applications used to process mission critical data to serve common back-office functions such as financial management, manufacturing, human resources and customer relationship management. These systems deliver value to businesses by enforcing standards in how data is processed and by being extremely reliable to \u2018keep the lights on.\u2019 Investments in Systems of Record are in the tune of 60 to 75% of total enterprise software spend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The gap that exists between processing of standard back-office functions and the total data processing needs of the enterprise to fulfil its business model and serve up its customer value represents 10 to 20% of the total enterprise applications platform<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These are use cases for software embedded into hardware such as smart devices used to manage assets and read-back customer activities and behaviours. Today, these represent 3-8% of the total enterprise stack but, thanks to trends towards increased use of Internet of Things (sensor-networked) technologies, this category is dramatically on the rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These are applications created by individuals and small teams to capture, cleanse, process, analyse and share information. This is where the demand for \u2018citizen developer\u2019 applications software largely comes from. Whilst it represents just 7-15% of total enterprise applications in terms of spend, it represents an important genre as these applications very much drive user and stakeholder experiences. Expectations on the quality of applications in this genre are extremely high because of the consumerization of IT; the realisation of users that applications can be \u2018that good\u2019 as the result of using<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many businesses today are considering the potential of advanced technologies \u2013 such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, 3D printing, drones, blockchain and virtual reality \u2013 to transform how. they create value for their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When formalizing their digital transformation framework, many leading chief information officers are recognizing that traditional IT methods and tools are too slow, inflexible and costly to use. For this reason, they are turning to agile software development tools and platforms (either code lite, low code or no code) to author prototypes rapidly, fail fast and bring new app solutions to market faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Encanvas offers the easiest to use and most complete tool-kit for live wireframing and rapid applications development. It equips DevOps teams with the digital transformation tools they need to outperform competitive rivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With a general recognition that business success is increasingly derived from the ability of an enterprise to master and leverage its data value, senior management teams are increasingly exploring ways to make sense of their operational performance through data. The ability to re-use data \u2013 to harvest, cleanse, rationalize, and analyze it \u2013 has become a mission-critical need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not all, but many present-day enterprise software architectures have some key issue areas. They include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suffering from legacy<\/strong> Too many applications<\/strong> The statistics around SaaS are unnerving. According to a recent report by Blissfully, a New-York startup that operates a platform to track SaaS adoption, the average company with 200 to 500 employees uses about 123 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications these days. For mid-sized companies, there are an average of 32 different billing owners for the SaaS subscriptions. On average, an employee uses eight SaaS applications!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n A continued ignorance towards the existence of shadow systems and the need for situational applications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Organizations turn a blind-eye to self-authored desktop applications created using simple apps like spreadsheets because they don\u2019t have the bandwidth to care. These applications are effectively being managed not by IT but by business professionals with other jobs to do (like running departments). Worse still, these unregulated apps are known to be unreliable in managing data quality, they scale badly. But that\u2019s not the end of the story. These apps process and save data (so-called shadow data) that\u2019s invisible to IT, yet it can contain privacy data, confidential company financial data, legal contracts, and competitive information that might place an organization at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In most organizations, a gap exists between inflexible Systems of Record \u2013 used to enforce good practice in common core back-office processes such as financial management, human resources, and customer relationship management \u2013 and the demand for applications from departments, users, teams, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders to support the fulfillment of a business model orchestration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Encanvas<\/a> is an enterprise software company that specializes in helping businesses to create above and beyond customer experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Low Code to Codeless<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Better than code-lite and low-code, we created the first no-code (codeless<\/a>) enterprise application platform to release creative minds from the torture of having to code or script applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Live Wireframe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Use encanvas in your software development lifecycle to remove the barrier between IT and the business. Coding and scripting is the biggest reason why software development has been traditionally unpredictable, costly and unable to produce best-fit software results. Encanvas uniquely automates coding and scripting. Our live wireframing approach means that business analysts can create the apps you need in workshops, working across the desk with users and stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AppFabric<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n When it comes to creating apps to create a data culture and orchestrate your business model, there\u2019s no simpler way to install and operate your enterprise software platform than AppFabric. Every application you create on AppFabric adds yet more data to your single-version-of-the-truth data insights. That\u2019s because, we\u2019ve designed AppFabric to create awesome enterprise apps that use a common data management substrate, so you can architect and implement an enterprise master data management plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Customer Data Platform<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Encanvas supplies a private-cloud Customer Data Platform that equips businesses with the means to harvest their customer and commercial data from all sources, cleanse and organize it, and provide tooling to leverage its fullest value in a secure, regulated way. We provide a retrofittable solution that bridges across existing data repositories and cleanses and organizes data to present a useful data source. Then it goes on to make data available 24×7 in a regulated way to authorized internal stakeholders and third parties to ensure adherence to data protection and FCA regulatory standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Encanvas Secure&Live<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Encanvas Secure and Live (\u2018Secure&Live\u2019) is a High-Productivity application Platform-as-a-Service. It\u2019s an enterprise applications software platform that equips businesses with the tools they need to design, deploy applications at low cost. It achieves this by removing coding and scripting tasks and the overheads of programming applications. Unlike its rivals, Encanvas Secure&Live is completely codeless (not just Low-Code), so it removes the barriers between IT and the business. Today, you just need to know that it\u2019s the fastest (and safest) way to design, deploy and operate enterprise applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Learn more by visiting www.encanvas.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ian Tomlin is a management consultant and strategist specializing in helping organizational leadership teams to grow by telling their story, designing and orchestrating their business models, and making conversation with customers and communities. He serves on the management team of Encanvas and works as a virtual CMO and board adviser for tech companies in Europe, America, and Canada. He can be contacted via his LinkedIn<\/a> profile or follow him on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enterprise software describes the software layer of an enterprise computing platform used by business organizations to process data. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise-software"],"yoast_head":"\n
Some businesses have been hoarding applications for years, ignoring many of them that are \u2018good enough.\u2019 With the pace of change in markets increasing every year, companies are constantly revising their business models. Legacy systems costs represent a major distraction, drain on resources and an anchor on innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Access to Software-as-a-Service applications and the slow-pace of internal software development has led many organizations to democratize their IT spend to departmental heads. A consequence of this trend has been the proliferation of SaaS tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe gap that exists between Systems of Record and complete Digital Ecosystems to support Business Models<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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