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The IT delivery gap and application networks
What the IT delivery gap is (business demand rising against flat IT capacity), why more resources cannot close it, and how MuleSoft closes it with a production plus consumption model built on an application network of modern, reusable APIs.
Define the IT delivery gap and describe MuleSoft's approach to closing it.
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What the exam expects
- Define the IT delivery gap as rising business demand against roughly constant IT delivery capacity, and reject look-alikes such as deployment delay or network latency.
- Explain why adding resources, outsourcing or simply working faster does not close the gap.
- Describe MuleSoft's answer: change delivery from a production model to a production plus consumption model.
- Define an application network and the qualities of the modern APIs it is built from.
Key terms:
- IT delivery gap: the growing difference between what the business demands from IT and what centralized IT can deliver.
- Production plus consumption model: IT produces reusable assets that other teams discover and self-serve.
- Application network: applications, data and devices connected through APIs whose assets others can discover and reuse.
- Modern API: an API that is discoverable and accessible, productized and reusable, and managed for security and performance.
Key facts
IT investment trend
- Detail
- Consistently close to flat for the last 2 to 3 years
Survey: resourcing
- Detail
- 60% not adequately resourced for the next 12 months
Adding resources
- Detail
- Does not solve the ever-growing backlog
SOA delivery
- Detail
- Focused exclusively on production
Network governance
- Detail
- Central IT manages and governs all services; LoB teams use them
Not an architecture
- Detail
- Building blocks on which architectures are built
Modern API qualities
- Detail
- Discoverable and accessible; productized and reusable; managed for security and performance
- Why does MuleSoft say a traditional centralized IT structure creates the delivery gap?
- What does MuleSoft say has happened to IT investment over the last 2 to 3 years?
- Why does an application network bend instead of break when products change?
- When an application network is in place, why are system experts no longer needed on every project?
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