Paul Nashawaty of Progress Software discusses top challenges application developers face when building business apps. Low-code platform as a service (PaaS) solutions like Progress Rollbase can help new developers break into new markets faster with little out of pocket cost. For more information, visit Paul's blog posts at Business Applications Today: https://bizappstoday.progress.com

1. Bridge the App Gap:
Crossing the Chasm Between IT and Business
Paul Nashawaty
Product Marketing Strategist
Pacific & Modulus Product and Solution Marketing
Progress

2. Business Changes for Application Development
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Enterprise IT Modernization
• Middleware, Systems of Record/Systems of Engagement
• Re-architecting, Technical Costs and Debt
Application Modernization Delivery
• Delivery & Competitive
Cloud Technology & Deployment
• IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
• Private, Public, Hybrid
Applying DevOps
• Automation, Process, Skills, Technology
Mobile
• Vendor / Platform Fragmentation
• Device Fragmentation, Development Approach

3. Enabling Application Developers to Address Customer Pain Points
Leveraged cloud development as
the underlying platform for a state-of-the-
art electronic health records SaaS
application
Good Done Great delivers powerful
information technology tools to its clients,
built to monitor and manage applications
that help them achieve more.
Rapidly create SaaS business
applications using point & click, drag &
drop tools in a standard Web browser
with a minimal amount of code.
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Developed Sales Platform based
hybrid cloud application
development platform.
Accelerate time-to-market with rapid
application development platform that
integrates out-of-the-box with
leading CRM systems.
Modernization of IT infrastructure to
take advantage of cloud-based
scalability and economics.
Simple, high-function, low-cost IT
system to support the delivery of
healthcare services through CFW
sites in developing regions.

4. Customer Business Problems and the Solution
Application Development Pain Points Platform as a Service advantages
Overwhelmed by data - organizations struggle to
leverage data effectively
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 Build and manage applications, or the need to
integrate and leverage your data more effectively
Overwhelmed by IT demand - users want more
applications than they can deliver
 Need for specific capabilities that you want to
leverage within your existing technology
infrastructure, or you may need a complete
platform for data driven application development.
Flexibility to easily deploy on any infrastructure, fully
controlled, customized and branded
 Publish applications and connect data from
multiple sources

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CHALLENGE
 Technology and social enterprise
Good Done Great wanted to turn the
philanthropic efforts of corporations
and foundations into measureable
and successful impacts.
SOLUTION
 Good Done Great delivers powerful
information technology tools to its
clients that help them achieve more.
BENEFIT
 Good Done Great leverages the
technical strength to deliver a range
of applications to its corporate and
philanthropic clients.

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CHALLENGE
 Carego International needed to bring
health care to underserved global
communities through innovative
modular facilities and cloud-based IT
solutions
SOLUTION
 Leveraged the cloud as the
underlying platform for a state-of-the-
art electronic health records
SaaS application
BENEFIT
 A simple, full-function solution that
allows organizations in low-income
regions to cost-effectively serve their
populations and work offline when
necessary

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CHALLENGE
 Inefficient internal processes impacted
productivity and data accuracy;
wanted to take advantage of market
opportunity to support existing
services with a software solution.
SOLUTION
 Developed Cloudselling Sales
Platform based on a cloud
application development platform.
BENEFIT
 Improved productivity & data quality;
reduced time to generate reports from
two days to zero; enhancement
requests within one hour; real-time
collaboration between Cloudselling
and its customers.

8. Solving the Customer Problems
Application Development Issues Look for solutions that provide….
Achieving IT Success
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 CIO needs to support as many business-positive projects as
possible
Eliminating the Backlog
 Address application backlog that is exacerbated by staffing or
budget constraints
Managing Shadow IT
 Replace makeshift solutions such as spreadsheets,
homegrown DBs or applications that don’t offer IT control or
expertise
Implementing a Trusted Platform
 Need an application platform that can be centrally managed
and optimized
Expanding the Developer Pool
 Decrease dependency on high-cost, highly technical app dev
resources (simplify app dev for IT / enable citizen developers)

9. A modern Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that makes it easy
for application developers to rapidly build data-driven apps
and deploy them on any cloud or device
BUILD SHARE MOVE

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It’s a Wrap!
Integrates solution existing on-premise
or cloud-based business applications
Deployment of web-base and
mobile applications
Data connectivity to on-premise,
big data and other data sources
Cloud services for architecture,
governance and community

11. PROGRESS
DATADIRECT
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Progress Pacific Platform
Rapid Development of Data-driven Apps, High Control and Business Rules
Data Integration Application Development
Business Rules
PROGRESS
OPENEDGE
PROGRESS ROLLBASE
& ROLLBASE MOBILE
PROGRESS
CORTICON
MODULUS
A PROGRESS COMPANY

12. Thank you!
Paul Nashawaty
Product Marketing Strategist
Paul.Nashawaty@progress.com
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