#MongoDBWorld IBM / Cloudant – Adam K

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Remarks from Dr. Angel Luis Diaz, VP Open Technology and Cloud Performance Solutions, IBM.

What is IBM doing to push innovation.

Cloudant has been committing to CouchDB and MongoDB.

IBM BlueMix – Platform as a Service built on Cloud Foundry.

It is fascinating to see the evolution of IBM. No longer hardware. Services are the future.

Cloudant JSON doc store delivered as DB as a Service (DBaaS).
Cloudant Query – Implements MongoDB style DB find.

Cloudant Query is taking MongoDB style syntax and delivering via http.

MongoDB style querying is becoming a de facto standard.

More common interfaces can help NoSQL like SQL did when relational databases where introduced.

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Opportunity and the Enterprise Portal

IBM presented at the Gartner conference. It was probably just an excuse to get more mileage out of "Buzzword Bingo."

IBM did present Lotus Mashups - A drag and drop enterprise mashup tool.

The portal case studies using Websphere came from ADP and Kaiser Permanente.

For ADP the biggest advantage was to present a consistent user interface for customers to multiple back-end systems.

What we have to remember is that a Portal is just a tool. A business still has to decide what services they want to deliver and the user experience they want to create. 

Advice

• Don't just focus on portlets. Look at the infrastructure and resilience from Day one.
• You don't have to have everything has to be deeply integrated on day one.
• Keep the core infrastructure stable but add portlet capability frequently.
• Focus on usability to control support costs. 

Kaiser Permanente

Problems:

• Aging J2EE Application
• Monolithic custom built
• Centrally controlled

It's all about the user:

• Focus on user experience
• Enable self service capability
• Enable innovation at touch points between stakeholders

The platform is a service, built on top of an Enterprise Service Bus. This is a three tier platform: 1) Shared Application Services 2) Core Infrastructure Services 3) Physical platform.

Kaiser's shared components include:

Facilities directory - Spring 08

Medical staff directory - Summer 08

Enterprise Search - Fall 08

Sign-on - Summer 08

Enterprise UI Templates - Fall 08