Elevator Pitch
Failing to address middleware modernization while addressing the modernization of other parts of the legacy environment risks deepening technical debt, thus undermining your ability to execute on initiatives that drive innovation and put the enterprise at a competitive disadvantage.
Description
The Digital Integration Platform sits at the centre of the target architecture, providing a bridge between all the platforms. It enables the decoupling of all platforms which make up the target estate, and also provides foundation application and data connectivity, queues, eventing, routing, and security capabilities. By decoupling the platforms, it removes the need for them to be aware of the wider technical landscape that exists in the application ecosystem. This allows changes to be made in isolation, and limits the dependencies across the estate and imposed on suppliers of those systems. This decoupling also enables a managed, controlled migration away from the as-is, legacy services to the future services, while minimizing the customer impact of the transition states.
Correctly defining the ‘shape’ of the Digital Integration Platform solution which typically consist of several distinct components is key to the technical de-coupling of components, and improving technical agility in the target architecture. The design of this Digital Integration Platform also allows its own components to be altered over time, and give customer the ability to adopt new capabilities without needing to “rip-and-replace” the entire platform. The purpose of the digital integration platform within the wider target architecture is to take the commodity services which we procure, and bring them together in the target state.