The successful realization of a connected business relies on how the systems, services and solutions involved can collaborate and be integrated to facilitate diverse and constantly changing business use cases.

Modern enterprises IT solutions often need to be rapidly implemented by leveraging the standard services/systems, homegrown/legacy systems, and cloud-based SaaS solutions

In this session, Kasun will focus on the role of WSO2 ESB in fulfilling the integration needs when realizing connected business. The talk will mainly cover

• Connecting the on-premise and cloud systems
• The fastest and the battle-hardened open source ESB
• Most comprehensive REST/JSON support

Rapid growth of enterprise assets makes it very hard for people to discover the assets they need. Different types of assets might contain different information, undergo varied lifecycles, and be managed by different users in various departments. This scattered nature could result in problems, and could make people unproductive due to difficulties in finding the required assets.

With WSO2 Enterprise Store, you can offer a one-stop solution to your users. You should probably have felt the ease of today's app stores, its social features, etc. which helps users to share their ideas and find the best. However, with WSO2 Enterprise Store, it is not just apps anymore … you can offer any of your enterprise assets via WSO2 Enterprise Store. In other words, it moves your enterprise from one store-one asset model to one store-any asset model.

In this talk, Ruchira will discuss how you could manage all your enterprise assets in a single place using WSO2 Enterprise Store.

Every enterprise has ‘Mobile First’ on it’s agenda. Being API-Centric is a key factor to be successful in ‘Mobile First’. API-centric done right will help enterprises to increase their reach and enjoy more revenue generation streams.

Being API-centric is all about properly managing challenges like API management, enterprise store, mobile friendliness, identity management, and application development support. WSO2 offers a comprehensive array of tools for enterprises to go API centric by strategically managing enterprise assets such as services, data, applications, and offering a platform for development.

In this talk, Sumedha will discuss how WSO2 can help your enterprise become API centric.

IT governance focuses on direction and control of operations, by granting people’s rights and responsibilities over processes, while conforming to a series of policies.

Governance is an essential part of achieving a connected business; however, most enterprises have not reaped all its benefits. Complexity of requirements, diversity of tools, and implementation costs are examples of several roadblocks faced by enterprises. In this session, Senaka will explain WSO2’s take on governance and how customers can benefit by having the right tools to address these challenges in building a connected business.

Enterprises grow today with acquisitions, mergers, and partnerships. Integration between systems that were never designed to work together is harder. The BYOID concept significantly reduces cost to production by simplifying integration between multiple heterogeneous identity management systems. Login to a partner domain with your own Windows credentials (IWA), or with your own Facebook or Twitter accounts, has become a reality with BYOID.

In this session, Prabath will focus on benefits, risks, and challenges in BYOID, and explain how you could enable BYOID with WSO2 Identity Server.

Current enterprises consist of various types of high volume data streams, and understanding what’s hidden in this data and making sense of it is key for a successful business. There are many ways of processing this data; mainly it would be batch processing and real-time analysis. Batch processing is useful when we want to process a large amount of data and obtain a summary in order to get an overview. In real-time analysis, we would be able to get instant answers as and when the data is received, which is useful for making quick decisions in a live event environment (e.g. stock trading, real-time traffic, etc). And we could possibly combine batch processing and real-time analysis to get a more complete picture of the system.

In this session, Anjana will look at how WSO2 BAM and WSO2 CEP servers can be used exactly for this - where a complete big data-based batch processing and real-time processing can be achieved.

The BYOD trend has become a hot topic given that it’s now a compliance and security nightmare for IT managers worldwide. It may offer increased productivity and flexibility for employees, but once you decentralize corporate networks and documents, security will always be a major concern.

Now enterprises need to figure out ways this can be achieved, what software is available, and pick a suitable vendor based on features that would meet the enterprise’s long-term requirements and connected business strategy needs. These requirements are two-fold; security concerns for the enterprise, and privacy and user experience concerns for users.

In this talk, Shan will talk about how enterprises can adopt a BYOD program without compromising security and without disturbing the privacy and user-experience of the user.

As software continues to disrupt a wide variety of industries, architects and IT operations need to think about the efficient use of resources and more opportunities to innovate. To address this challenge, many are looking at Enterprise PaaS offering to help them develop, deploy, and run new applications quicker and at great scale.

Faster delivery, intelligent capacity on demand, efficiency and security, high performance and dynamic routing, monitoring and health management, open extensible architecture, multi provider echo system, and greater choice are some essential elements of an Enterprise PaaS that need to be considered to deploy applications.

In this session, Lakmal will talk about the essential elements of an Enterprise PaaS and how Apache Stratos (incubating) is delivering on these aspects.

How long does one of your developers take to complete developing an application starting from scratch? How many requests does he/she make for various things needed even to start working on it? How many people would need to get involved to fulfill those requests? How much of infrastructure would you need to buy, which might become useless in the future? How many different environments do you need to maintain until the application goes into production? And, one more … how would you govern the development process?

If you are the person who’s responsible for solving the above questions, this may seem like a nightmare. So, what if there was a way to find solutions to all of these via a few clicks, saving time, money, and effort? Our answer is WSO2 Cloud.

During this session, Amila will explain WSO2 Cloud’s ability to solve your problems in application, integration, and API, and how it can accelerate the development flow of your organization.

The number of mobile applications is growing exponentially. There is an app for almost anything you want to do, and everyday, thousands of apps are added to app stores. The demand for mobile apps is also growing. Mobile app developers have to cater to this increasing demand in a rapid manner. Enterprise are increasingly utilizing mobility, and this has led to enterprises developing a large number of enterprise mobile apps that cater to their needs. Developing such apps and governing API calls made by those apps in a standard manner thus becomes a major challenge. This is when choosing a proper Mobile Backend as a Service (mBaaS) platform would be immensely helpful. An mBaaS platform provides enterprise Backend as a Service (BaaS) APIs along with enterprise mobility specific APIs. The mBaaS would provide a rich set of APIs that are readily available to mobile app developers that would enable them to rapidly develop mobile applications. Using the mBaaS APIs, the mobile app developers would be able to make effective use of the enterprise assets in a standard, governed, and secured manner, and it would also allow them to connect the mobile apps to the rest of the business organization. Standard SDKs provided with mBaaS also makes developers’ life easier, and enables rapid development of apps without having to worry about platform-specific complexities.

In this session, Azeez will take you through the concepts behind mBaaS, how it can be utilized by mobile app developers to accelerate enterprise mobile app development, and how an mBaaS adds value by enabling you to connect your apps to the rest of the enterprise.

The explosion of mobile and social lead channels is forcing organisations around the globe to re-think their traditional business models. Now traditional business models are under pressure from technology innovations that disintermediate the value chains and threaten significant value pools.

No business is standalone. There is a complex set of business processes that span the business, their customers, suppliers, agents, distributors and employees. These interrelationships drive the need for a Connected Business. Businesses around the world are recognizing the importance of a Connected Business as a way to build and maintain engagement and loyalty of their customers and partners.

However, for most businesses, staying Connected with their customers and partners will be a significant challenge. Over the last few years, APIs have evolved as a means of enabling the Connected Business. Research group Gartner, predicts 75% of Fortune 500 enterprises will open an API by 2014. Already, many businesses are deriving significant revenue from APIs.

In this session, we will explore case studies of the Connected Business, and the role of APIs and supporting technologies in enabling the Connected Business.

CIOs are being tasked with a dual mandate of reducing IT costs, while spearheading the innovation agenda for the enterprise. The innovation agenda is strongly influenced by the increasing number of employees and customers that come from the category of millennials or digital natives. Taking advantage of this changing landscape requires a strong end-to-end IT foundation that can drive optimal leverage of existing IT assets as well as provide a modern millennial user experience. This session discusses the changes in the IT landscape and how an end-to-end IT strategy and compatible tooling can help deliver on this promise.

Today the world is about connectivity. Everyone wants to stay connected. Mobile phones, mobile devices and internet connectivity have enabled the world to become a massive interconnected network. So, when you want to build a sustainable business, you need to make sure you build a Connected Business. The WSO2 Carbon platform consists of all the components you want to build a sustainable connected business. WSO2 Carbon is a complete, lean, and enterprise ready middleware platform built on top of extensible modular architecture. WSO2 Carbon provides components to build enterprise solutions to cater to your business requirements. Carbon provides components to implement your solution, starting with the visualization layer, business logic layer to data access layer. WSO2 Carbon products use web services to communicate with different modules in the system. This makes your solution even more powerful since it make the system loosely coupled. This allows you to integrate new components or alternative implementation with minimum effort.

The main barrier for new users of the Carbon platform is its complexity. Since WSO2 Carbon consists of a number of different components to perform a wide variety of tasks, it involves many standards and technologies. Therefore, as a new user, you or your developers might feel the Carbon platform is somewhat complex and hard to decipher. To simplify the day-to-day development tasks of your fellow developers who implements their solutions on WSO2 Carbon, WSO2 provides a Tooling Platform consists of standalone tools as well as web-based tools. During this session, Shiroshica will explain how different tools in the WSO2 Tooling Platform will help you and your developers to build your Connected Business solution in an efficient manner and how it can enhance productivity.

Enterprise web application development is a key and integral part of any connected business solution. To run a successful connected business, it is necessary to have a strong and flexible application development platform, which also supports business integration and API management technologies. The WSO2 Application Development platform is a comprehensive and complete, yet lightweight offering based on the WSO2 Carbon middleware platform. In this session, Sagara will introduce you to WSO2 Application Server, WSO2 User Engagement Server (UES), and JavaScript-based Jaggery application development framework.

Each of these offerings addresses and fulfills development requirements of various levels of a connected business solution where WSO2 UES enables you to bring your enterprise data into screen as a dashboard or microsite through a rich visual editor, while WSO2 Application Server (AS) supports Java-based web application hosting and equally support for lightweight Spring and modern JavaEE Web Profile-based development technologies. WSO2 AS also provides excellent developer experience for RESTfull and SOAP-based web services beyond the basic hosting.

This session will also illustrate how easily and rapidly the WSO2 Application Development platform interconnects with other parts of WSO2 middleware to build an agile connected business solution.

Test automation has become an essential part of agile development practices, mainly because delivery schedules are bound by market pressure, and the only means to achieve quality goals with aggressive delivery schedule is to automate. Although companies are rapidly adapting to the test automation route, the downside can be huge without right strategy and approach.

In this talk, Krishantha will share a few success stories of adapting to test automation and key secrets of the right approach. The talk will also cover effective test automation concepts, such as test pyramid and go into more details of the WSO2 Test Automation Framework and technologies behind it, which include our experience of using open source tools to build automated testing. In addition, it will cover challenges and industry recommended best practices on test automation. He will also discuss some benefits gained through test automation in development practice and WSO2’s plans on achieving Continuous Delivery objectives.

Application and service hosting, and managing in the cloud has never been easy. When building and managing Cloud infrastructures, the lack of proper processes, robust monitoring, outdated tooling, automation, and architecture often reduces a Devops team’s effectiveness.

When managing the WSO2 Carbon middleware platform and WOS2 Cloud, we encourage best Devops practices across

• Automation
• Monitoring and analytics
• Delivery
• Tools and utilities
• Scaling/bursting into the cloud

During this session, Chamith will describe how to achieve Devops with the right weapons in hand and how to manage failure-proof large service clusters.

App development requires project set-up, provisioning, development activities, collaboration, runtime and development time governance, and application lifecycle management. New cloud-based development technologies, services, and distribution channels can be used to empower enterprises with affordable platforms that enable team collaboration, channel self-organization, service adaptation, and frictionless information flow in a distributed global setting. In a connected business IT can become a more agile business-enabler with cloud based technologies by providing faster time-to-market and enhanced visibility into the performance, adoption, usage and value of applications.

In this session, Dimuthu will take you through WSO2 App Factory, a multi-tenant, elastic, and self-service enterprise platform that supports applications from cradle to grave; it enables multiple project teams to collaboratively create, run, and manage enterprise applications, while aiming to reduce development time and cost, increasing collaboration and visibility.

It’s one thing to have a vision, but the path to get there from where you are now often has many blocks.

In this session, Asanka will take you through a journey - from wherever you are in your corporate IT mess and maze to the promised land of a connected business. Asanka will use real customer case studies to illustrate the various steps involved, and also discuss the carrots and sticks needed along the way to manage the human aspects of the transition. The result is a place of zen where you will achieve enterprise IT nirvana.