WSO2 CXO Forum showcases latest solutions for connected business
WSO2 Sri Lanka recently held a CxO Forum to showcase its latest solutions for a connected business. The forum also highlighted WSO2’s existing product offerings and provided insight into its pipeline of enterprise solutions.
Operations and information heads representing a cross-section of industries, such as apparel, telecommunications, IT services, finance and the government sector were among the invitees that attended the session, held at Cinnamon Grand Hotel recently.
WSO2 Founder, Chairman and CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana inaugurated the session by providing an introduction to the company and some snippets on the history of WSO2.
Other senior personnel of WSO2 touched on different areas, explaining how WSO2 has realigned enterprise application development by providing comprehensive, data to screen open source products that span the entire breadth of service-oriented architecture (SOA), yet remain lean, inexpensive and easy to use. The key highlight of the session was the introduction of WSO2’s recently formed mobile subsidiary, WSO2 Mobile and its solutions in the enterprise mobile space.
WSO2 Vice President Technology Evangelism Chris Haddad spoke about new IT in terms of how rethinking, reinventing, and reorganizing a company’s processes and middleware platform will help an organisation to deliver significant business value.
“Organisations are not single, vertical silos anymore … they outsource a lot of their different business activities to partners and we see that this is becoming increasingly possible as the connectivity cost decrease,” said Haddad. He said that WSO2 can support this “because we’ve integrated many aspects and we’ve taken a holistic approach towards how we can reenergize a company’s IT operations.”
He also noted that there’s the opportunity now with increasing capability and sophistication of WSO2’s middleware platform and the concept of DevOps to satisfy an organisation’s broader business requirements.
Today, there’s greater focus on enterprise IT because this facilitates change and aids with adapting to change, commented WSO2 Vice President Product Marketing John Mathon.
He said that a key challenge faced by most companies today is the lack of resources to keep pace with the required changes in enterprise devel- opment and open source middleware has been able to meet some of these challenges.
“It’s been a great growth phase for open source; we’ve seen tremendous adoptions in recent years and many companies today are using open source middleware in their operations because it enables them to lower their risks, reduce costs and adapt to new technology faster,” said Mathon, who was also a co-founder of Tibco Software.
WSO2 Mobile Founder and CEO Harsha Purasinghe spoke about how mobile has become a crucial element in today’s enterprise where enterprises need to shift towards a Mobile First Strategy. He also elaborated on the potential challenges faced by enterprises due to proliferation of smart mobile devices, distribution of mobile apps and challenges faced with building mobile applications for enterprise use.