IT @ BYU J. Kelly Flanagan Chief Information Officer Brigham Young University If You’re Interested . . . And You Should Be! Mashup Corporations One technical marketer had an innovative idea CEO embraced the new business opportunity CIO resisted the non-traditional IT approach Innovation safely expanded their business Office of the CIO web site and blogs – cio.byu.edu Constant Change Moore’s law has enabled Core’s law - twice as many cores, or processors, every 18 months Disk storage doubling every 18 months Memory capacity doubling every 18 months Network speed doubling every 18 months Performance Enhancements Enable Abstraction Increase in performance due to Moore’s Law Ease of Use Abstraction simplifies use, increasing the pool of information technology producers. Consume Services Graphical Programming Machine Code Compiled Code Compiled Code Assembly Code Assembly Code Machine Code Machine Code Time Dishwasher Methods: •Fill with water •Heat the water to the appropriate temperature •Automatically open the detergent ABSTRACTED! dispenser at the right time •Shoot the water through jets to get the dishes clean •Drain the dirty water •Spray more water on the dishes to rinse them •Drains itself again •Heat the air to dry the dishes off, if the user has selected that setting •Monitor to make sure everything is running properly •Time to regulate the length of each cycle. •Sense if the water level gets too high and activate the draining function to keep the dishwasher from overflowing. •Sense to detect the dirtiness of the water coming off the dishes. When the water is clear enough, the dishwasher knows the dishes are clean -etc. Undesirable IT Development Desirable IT Development IT developers— Continue to create large / complicated core applications, but with associated Services. Produce and expose Services that enable access to data and functionality important to IT consumers. IT consumers— Envision interesting applications and instead of producing a laundry list of requirements, they develop prototypes and applications using simple tools to aggregate and consume Services. Traditional Interfaces Deliver Limited Access to Core Data Blackboard RouteY YJobs Library Core Data Bookstore HR Functional leaders define application functionality Functional leaders define look and feel Limited set of applications due to finite resource availability AIM Financials Business Logic Web User Interface Web Service Interfaces Transform the Enterprise Blackboard RouteY Library YJobs Core Data Bookstore Financials With access to data, consumers fill in the gaps not addressed by traditional organizations HR AIM Business Logic Functional leaders define application functionality, look and feel, and data availability Consumers create alternative interfaces Many applications are developed by an almost unlimited human resource Web Service Interface Web User Interface Alternative User Interfaces Business Logic Web Service Interface Applications such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Pandora, and Amazon have alternative interfaces available on various devices. Default Web User Interface Alternate Web Interface Cell Phone Interface Mashups Not “build it and they will come,” but rather “they will come and help build it.” Examples: 1800TravelBooking.com Combines Google Maps, Google Spreadsheets, and Geocoder with hotel cost information Zillow iPhone Application Combines VirtualEarth and Zillow 13,600 suppliers are aggregated to offer last minute travel deals. Consume Web Service Interfaces provided by travel suppliers. Consume Web Service Interface from Google and Twitter lastminutetravel.com twitgraph.com 1800TravelBooking.com Combines Google Maps, Google Spreadsheets, and Geocoder Zillow iPhone Application Combines Google Maps, Google Spreadsheets, and Geocoder Displays homes on Google Maps Shows estimated values Homes for sale and asking price Homes recently sold and sale price lastminute.com 13.600 travel suppliers provide web service interfaces This site aggregates them to provide access to all in one location TwitGraph Combines Google Apps, Google Visualization, and Twitter SOA Encourages Innovation Business Logic Web Service Interface BYU Examples: Location Service Bookstore Service Library Service Registration Service HR Service Mail Service Web User Interface Alternate Web Interface Cell Phone Interface Other Consumer Abstraction Facilitates Innovation When you expose Web Services you are providing an API It should be intuitive It should be safe It should be documented It should be supported It should be exposed through “the registry” There may be hierarchies of Services Data Services Core application Services Aggregated Services GMU Not all Services may be exposed to everyone No Service Silos AIM, PeopleSoft, etc. Services must be architected from the top down Not necessary to have management and provider services Performance Services Everywhere Intermediaries Encryption / Decryption Data collection / statistics Filtering Authorization Versioning Testing Load balancing Etc. Current Status EGAB has been active in recommending policy around all aspects of SOA Registry is in place President’s Council has approved and is anticipating broad availability and use A Community of Excellence (CoE) is being organized Many presentations, like this, have been given across campus – the campus is excited and waiting! What I need and Expect I need all of you to hear, understand, and internalize this vision We won’t be successful until my vision is shared by those who work here I need those who understand and share this vision, to evangelize it I need the vision implemented Help us find solutions to the problems we are sure to face Don’t deliver only what I am asking for, deliver what I want! Go the second and third mile Summary Catch the vision Share the vision Implement the vision Find solutions to problems that are in our way Use me to remove road blocks, obtain resources, and clarify direction This is our chance to make IT significantly better on campus, Let’s do it together!