Innomatic Platform is the open source platform for building multi-tenant web applications in PHP. This presentation provides an overview of Innomatic architecture and main frameworks.

1. Innomatic Platform
Architecture Overview
The platform for multi-tenant web
applications

2. Understanding the
Innomatic Platform & the
Innomatic Ecosystem

3. What is Innomatic Platform
Innomatic Platform is an Open Source development and management platform useful for programmers and
system administrators to quickly create various kinds of modular applications based on web technologies and
to make them rapidly available to customers drastically reducing installation, update and management times.
It's not a framework such as Symfony or Zend Framework: unlike these last two, Innomatic is a platform made to
create, manage and distribute multi-tenant applications in web technology and enable them for multiple
customers contemporarily from a single system.
It contains several frameworks and many architectures can be installed upon it: applications can be created in
different ways assembling various frameworks, components and finished products.

4. A couple of examples of applications you can create with Innomatic
Innomatic Platform is especially suited for building and operating SaaS systems and products.
A couple of examples of applications you can create:
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Backoffice applications (e.g. business processes), that are integrated with other systems
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Open to the public front end applications
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Intranet / extranet applications
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Mobile applications that are integrated with the platform
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Internet of Things devices

5. Backoffice applications: an example

6. Front end applications: an example

7. Native mobile applications: an example

8. The main type of companies that use the Innomatic platform
The main type of companies that use the Innomatic platform:
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Structured Companies: to create internal applications
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SME: Use ready made applications available on the Innomatic Market and/or Innomatic Cloud and custom
made Innomatic Partner applications.
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SaaS Service Providers: to manage and enable applications for multiple customers simultaneously
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Web Agencies: to create custom web applications
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System Integrators: to create custom business applications
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Software Houses: to build standard software products, that will be distributed through their own channels,
Innomatic Market or Innomatic Cloud
Web Agencies, System Integrators and Software Houses can become Innomatic Partners.

9. Several frameworks and standards built into Innomatic
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A kit to make administrative panels based on MVC and evolved and extendable widgets usable in back
office applications
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A system to create multi-tenant applications with single-tenant databases, managing multiple instances
for the single client with a single installation of the platform.
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An application management system to:
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install them in the platform, with version and packet dependency management
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enable them on single customer instances with a single operation
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update them with a single operation automatically on all the customers instances
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package them, describing them in an xml file as a set of extendable components of various types
distribute them through a web service(Innomatic Market) without the need to install files by hand
Much more: architectural best practices, web services kits, several specialized mini-frameworks, etc.

10. Innomatic Platform Enterprise Edition and SaaS Edition
Innomatic can be set up in two different modes:
Innomatic Platform Enterprise Edition
The platform will be dedicated to a single client, for example to his systems (Internal IT, server outsourcing).
Some benefits: simplified deployment, single back office for all applications, access to AppCentral / Innomatic
Market, etc.
Innomatic Platform SaaS Edition
The platform will be used by those that supply applications in SaaS mode, centralizing the management of
multiple applications and customers in a single system.
Some benefits: centralized application management, multiple domain/tenant management (customers),
modularity, speed, single back office interface, operation automation, etc.

11. Innomatic Platform IDE
The Innomatic Platform IDE is a set of Innomatic Platform applications and development tools that simplify and
speed up development.
Some current tools:
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process debugger
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profiler
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log analyzer
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software copy protection system
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AppCentral server connector
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Innomatic project skeleton with vagrant support and chef recipes

12. Innomatic Mobile
Innomatic Mobile is a framework for creating
native iOS and Android applications that
communicate with Innomatic Platform, writing
the code just once.
Innomatic Mobile applications are written in
Python by means of the kivy framework, a multi
platform framework that builds native user
interfaces.
Innomatic Mobile embeds a series of ready
made features, such as an offline/online
synchronization layer, error logging, etc.
As a secondary benefit, applications written with
Innomatic Mobile can work on desktop
computers without changing a line of code.

13. Innomatic IoT (Internet of Things)
Innomatic IoT is an hardware based solution that communicates with the Innomatic platform through a predefined
protocol, useful for building "Internet of Things" devices.
Thus it is possible to create devices that access server side application logic such as Innomatic applications.

14. Innomatic Market
Innomatic Market is the Innomatic application marketplace built by Innoteam and its partners and is accessible
to all customers subscribed to an Innomatic Subscription
Applications can be downloaded through the AppCentral system, integrated into Innomatic.
Public access channels and Open Source libraries, external system connectors etc. are present in AppCentral
repositories.

15. Innomatic Cloud
Innomatic Cloud is a SaaS service supplied by Innoteam, whose mission is to automate companies.
Applications built by Innoteam and its Technology Partners can be found in Innomatic Cloud.
The service is managed by means of Innomatic Platform Saas Edition installations hosted on an Amazon Web
Services infrastructure.

16. Innomatic Platform
Architecture

17. Domains and applications
The Innomatic building blocks are:
Domains
A domain is a "container" (tenant) dedicated to a single client where multiple applications can be enabled.
Innomatic Platform Enterprise Edition allows the management of a single domain, the Saas Edition can manage
an unlimited number of domains.
Applications
Each application contains a set of components and they can be enabled on one or more domains.
When an application gets updated, the platform makes sure that all the domains containing an enabled version of
the application get updated.

18. Domains

19. Creating a Domain

20. Applications

21. Enabling an application to a domain

22. Applications, Domains and Domain web apps

23. Innomatic Platform Framework
Innomatic contains a
components based
framework suitable for
building backoffice and
generic applications.
Frontend applications can
be developed using
specialized web
application handlers.

24. Web Application Handler - Generic framework

25. Web Application Handler - Innomatic Desktop

26. Integration layer: connectors

27. An example of a framework layered over Innomatic:
Innomatic Media CMF

28. Building applications

29. Environments
Platform support for Develoment / QA / UAT / Production environments.

30. Process debugging

31. Process debugging - Runtime and profiler

32. Bug reporting

33. Continuous integration / deployment
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Platform support for Unit / Functional Testing
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Platform support for different environments / configurations
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Platform support for testing/ CI platforms
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Deploying an Innomatic application is like uploading a file / using a script / download from AppCentral in the
cloud
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Deploying a generic web app: various methods (rsync, capistrano, git, upload, etc.)
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Centralized distribution through AppCentral repositories
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CI task for packaging Innomatic applications and sending them to AppCentral repositories
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stable / unstable / nightly build AppCentral repositories
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automatic application update for all domains

34. Distributing applications

35. Distributing applications: direct installation inside Innomatic

36. Installing an application inside Innomatic

37. Dependencies

38. Distributing applications: through AppCentral repositories (e.g.
Innomatic Market)

39. Installing an application with AppCentral

40. Multiple application versions from AppCentral

41. Distributing applications: through an Innomatic based SaaS platform
(e.g. Innomatic Cloud)

42. Protecting code with Innomatic IDE KeyMaster
Developers can protect their code and control its distribution by means of an encryption system and distribution of authorization
keys; the uploading and decryption parts are integrated into Innomatic.
Innomatic IDE KeyMaster is an Innomatic application that
uses a code encryption library and generated keys to unblock
it.
One is expected to separately buy an ionCube encoder
license: http://www.ioncube.com/sa_encoder.php?
page=pricing
The keys can optionally define:
● limit date: if the key isn't updated within the due date,
the application will stop working
● domain limit: maximum number of domains
(customers) where one can enable the application
● user limit maximum number of users per domain
● version: maximum version covered by the key
● IP / range: code execution only on a certain ip/ip range
● password: password necessary to install the key

43. Innomatic Platform is available at GitHub: https://github.
com/innoteam/innomatic
Project web site:
http://www.innomatic.org
Innoteam web site:
http://www.innoteam.it