1. Why Deploy an Enterprise Asset Store
Nuwan Bandara
@nuwanbando
WSO2

2. Enterprise Assets
• Businesses generate
different types of assets
APIs
Mobile
Apps
Gadgets
• Different parties are
involved in creating those
• Every asset type has its
own lifecycle
Connectors
Policies
Documents
Web
Apps
Services

3. The Challenge
• Every SBU in a large corporation create some kind of a digital
asset
• Sometimes there are overlapping (lack of knowledge of what
other unit has done)
• Usage monitoring and governance
• Many stakeholder involvement in an asset’s lifecycle
• Monetization options ?

4. An Enterprise Apps Store
“Enterprise App Stores Can Increase the ROI of the App
Portfolio” – Gartner (4 Feb 2013)
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“By 2017, 25 Percent of Enterprises Will Have an
Enterprise App Store” – Gartner (12 Feb 2013)
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5. We Envisioned One Step Further
• A store of anything (Why only apps ? Why not anything ?)
• Ships with Three types of assets OOTB (Gadgets, Web
Sites and E-Books)
• Ability to add new types of assets and configure
• Ability to extend the base functionality (subscription /
payment process integration)

6. Introducing WSO2 Enterprise Store
• The Hot New Product of WSO2 product stack
• General Availability from 26th Oct.
• Already multiple customers in-house

7. Store Is The Center Of Connected Business

8. Two Components – { #1 - Store Front }
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Asset attribute base
search & sort
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Categories & Tags
•
Recently added / Most
used listings
•
Dedicated asset page
with social commenting
and rating

9. Store Front : Social Commenting & Rating
• Fist look at WSO2
Social Platform
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Commenting
Rating
Liking / Disliking

10. Two Components – { #2 - Backoffice }
• Asset add / edit / versioning
• Lifecycle management & governance
• Statistics

11. Backoffice : Lifecycle Management &
Governence
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Lifecycle visualization
Change log
Driven by SCXML
Asset type specific
lifecycle configuration

12. Extending The Store With A New Asset Type
• Create a new Resource Extension Type (RXT – a
concept inherited from WSO2 GReg)
• Add relevant jaggery pages to customize the asset
based operations (Download vs Subscribe vs
Bookmark)
• Define the Asset LC in SCXML

13. In-House Customers : Service Store

14. In-House Customers : Mobile App Store

15. Future Integration Within WSO2 Platform
• API Manager Store & Publisher (Q1 2014)
• WSO2 ESB Connector Store (Nov. 2013)
• WSO2 App Store with App factory (Q1 2014)

16. The Engineering Effort
• Written completely in JavaScript, the front-end and the backend
• Uses technologies such as jaggeryjs, caramel, handlebars
• Modular to its core – any part of the store can be over ridden
by dropping a relevant script in extensions
• A team of geniuses

17. Thank You
nuwan@wso2.com
http://nuwanbando.com