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Enterprise environment software areas – Part 1

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Over the years that I have been working in IT industry, I have got the chance to be exposed to multiple enterprise (large & mid sized company environments) level software technologies, products & frameworks. These vary in a big way from company to company and project to project / program to program but overall trend goes in a specific direction. Below is a list of enterprise software areas used by large & medium companies that I have had exposure to. This is part 1 of multi series enterprise software list of articles that I hope to bring out – I would not be able to cover all in one go. This will help students and young professionals who have not had the exposure to enterprise software environment to get an idea about these things and trigger thinking along with exploration. Building a bigger picture will help youngsters to be better architects & technology managers.

  1. Security – End point security, firewall, intrusion detection, log analysis, dependency & library analysis, penetration testing, code analysis & scanning, DB encryption, RSA, JFrog XRay
  2. Application stack: ERP, HRM, Portals, Custom solutions build on frameworks like Spring, Enterprise content management, Scanning solutions, WorkDay
  3. Analytics – Web analytics like Google Analytics, Modelling & reporting software, Data Science products for NLG, R, Python, SPSS, SAS
  4. AI / ML / Neural Networks / IoT: Keras, TensorFlow, OpenCV, Apache PredictionIO, Watson, SageMaker, Google AI, Arduino, Kaa, DeviceHive, Home Assistant, DeviceHub
  5. Mathematical modelling: MATLAB, Octave, Magnolia
  6. Integration – ESBs, REST, SOAP
  7. Cloud – AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Rackspace, SalesForce
  8. Authentication, Roles, Authorization, Web tokens, SSO – OAuth, Open ID Connect, JSON Web Token (JWT), LDAP, CAS, Shibboleth and SAML
  9. Email: Outlook, GSuite, Lotus, Apple
  10. Build, Code management & CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Maven, Ant, BitBucket, GitHub, Artifactory
  11. Code Quality: SONARQube
  12. Integrated Development Environments: Spring Tool Suite, Netbeans, Eclipse, PyCharm, Spyder, Jupyter
  13. Micro-services environment, Containers like Docker
  14. Workflow: JBPM, Activiti
  15. Business rules management – Drools
  16. Automation / Robotic process automation: BluePrism, Automation Anywhere, UiPath
  17. Low code platforms: OutSystems, SalesForce Lightning, Appian
  18. Testing: Selenium, JMeter, Katalon, TestNG, JUnit
  19. ETL: Talend, SSIS, NiFi, Airflow
  20. Web & Application Servers including JavaScript based: Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty, Node.JS, NGINX
  21. Configuration, deployment, container orchestration & scripting automation: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes
  22. API Management: APIGee, Postman, Automate, 3Scale, Dell Boomi, Mashery, Anypoint, Azure API management
  23. Infrastructure & application monitoring: Nagios, New Relic
  24. Operating systems: Windows, Linux, Unix, Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, AIX
  25. Reporting & Visualization: JasperSoft, Tableau, Power BI, SAP Analytics, Kibana, Zoho Analytics
  26. BigData, Streaming, RDBMS & NoSQL: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Hadoop, MongoDB, HBase, Spark, Kafka
  27. Learning: Moodle, Coursera, PluralSight, Khan Academy, Udemy, EdX, Canvas, Google Classroom
  28. Project management full cycle including test & bug management, documentation; JIRA, Confluence, Wiki
  29. Software & Enterprise patterns around integration and more
  30. Enterprise architecture: iServer (Orbus), Archi
  31. Miscellaneous: Load balancers (Hardware & Software), Clustering related software, Ticketing management, Zoom, WebEx, Productivity & office tools for presentations, documents, calculations, Skype for Business

Hopefully this has been helpful and I will come back with more thoughts on enterprise software environment & architecture

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Social Media, Software

Social Media Solutions

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Social media is an evolving beast. From few sites and systems few years back to plethora of different sites and systems across the internet accessed from laptop/desktop/mobile – this domain is exploding currently.

LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Google+, Yelp and so on. List is endless.

Everybody is talking of social media sentiment analysis and analytics over customer information, yes that’s an evolving and interesting field.

But something that is going to create a problem and will require innovation would be areas like:
1. How do you sync your information across various social media sites:
1-a. LIKES
1-b. COMMENTS
1-c. NEWSFEEDS
1-d. Etc.
2. What is your unique public and private unified profile across social media?
3. What is your network of connects across the various sites?
4. How are you perceived across these sites – a unified view?
5. How do you sync your contacts and network across various social media systems?
6. How do you enable similar privacy settings, access control, etc. across all social media sites?
7. Evolving threat management across social media for individuals

Many such questions will come up as social media matures. Lot of innovation, building of standards/protocols, tools and products would be needed in this new exploding social media sites/systems.

There was a phase where database access/import/export/features across various RDBMSes were standardized, operating systems related standards came out, ECM, integration, etc. came out with standards.

A similar phenomenon should and most likely will occur once social media expansion stabilizes and matures. It will be one level above technology and will be at functional/domain/social media feature level backed by unique new ways of implementing technologies. To give an example: if you export your contact from one phone, if you export CSV/EXCEL from one system you are able to import and sync it at other place, such solutions for problems listed above and many more upcoming areas would be needed.