Sheldon Anthony IO

When organizations utilize composable applications, they can change faster and safer, which results in greater resilience when disruptions occur. It is possible to reduce the risks associated with unexpected changes or disruptions by using their modular nature, even though there is no way to eliminate them entirely. Changes and disruptions must be addressed in a timely fashion during turbulent times. Gartner predicts that by 2023, organizations that have adopted an intelligent composable approach will outpace their competition by 80% in the speed of new feature implementation.^[1] Businesses are becoming more flexible and growing faster with composable applications integrated into them.

Throughout history, disruptions have plagued business operations and have had a significant impact on their overall sustainability. The COVID-19 epidemic just magnified how vast those effects can be. In the face of continuous uncertainty and opportunity, business leaders must start reinventing the way they think about their businesses. Business forecasts are uncertain, which makes it difficult for technology leaders to secure approval for inflexible, fixed technology budgets. It's easy for applications to become monolithic and hard to modularize today, and many organizations lack the skills to build software modularly aligned with business capabilities, so they fall back on programmatic partitioning. In traditional solutions, the application data and analytics processes are either isolated or bound together in monolithic applications. It's tough for companies that depend on these types of traditional systems to unlock the real intelligence required to make decisions at the appropriate time due to the disconnection between their data and analytics processes. In times of rapid change, businesses are restricted from accessing comprehensive actionable intelligence, hindering their ability to make informed, timely, and contextual decisions.

Olmsted County Government Center deployed a composable communication architecture platform to create a virtual waiting system for citizens needing to take care of basic tasks like driver’s licenses and passport renewals. Automatic notifications were sent informing people reminding them of their appointment date, what their timeframe is to be served, what place in line they are in as they wait in their car, and when to enter the building to meet with an employee. With such success, the county has decided to expand its use of the solution for generating citizen awareness about the COVID-19 vaccine. Using the same composable communication architecture, the county can now allow health providers to communicate proactively with citizens via automated outbound voice calls as well as SMS (text) notifications in order to get more people registered. It is possible to send notifications to both individuals and groups with optional response tracking, text interaction, and auto-forms to capture important information that will assist in making better decisions. In order to further streamline and simplify service, health providers can suggest nearby vaccine sites based on the home geography of the device the person is calling from.^[2]

Competitive innovative organizations are building and packaging their own API products, which are fully reusable and able to be ported to other environments. Using low-code tools for integration and development, they are improving collaboration between business and IT teams. Businesses are selectively assembling specific business capabilities, upgrading, replacing, and seizing opportunities for enhanced capabilities. Composable applications are offering businesses rich APIs and Packaged Business Capabilities (PBCs). Instead of providing "sealed" business software products, composable applications are built from these rich APIs and Packaged Business Capabilities (PBCs).

As organizations progress toward the future of applications, they will travel at different speeds. It is imperative that organizations, rather than focusing on monolithic solutions, realign their application selection criteria by focusing on the ability to deliver composable, packaged business capabilities (PBCs). Packaged business capabilities (PBCs) allow companies to cut costs and reduce the number of separate interfaces they have with customers and employees. By implementing these PBCs, companies are able to streamline their workflows, reducing the amount of time spent on back-office management and allowing them to focus more on automating processes and unifying data from different sources. As enterprises transform, the composition is critical to accelerating the path to value. Your organization can unlock more value faster by combining and reusing prebuilt, interoperable, and repeatable cloud solutions to address constantly changing business needs.