The Digital Adaptation Layer
I love to eat spaghetti, but not at work. The dark secret of many enterprises is that their IT systems look like a bowl of spaghetti or its technical doppelgänger, the Stockholm Telephone Tower—it was built to connect phone lines in Sweden in 1887 and had 5,500 connections when it was demolished in 1953.
This is no longer acceptable. Modern digital businesses demand results in days or hours, not months or years. Decades of point-to-point connections take months for IT to disentangle a single spaghetto.
UIPath’s eye-popping $35B IPO illustrates that no-code IT is essential to the future of computing. But UIPath only solves the problem for a few stands of the IT fabric. Data scientists, app developers, and business analysts need no-code tools too.
Enter the Digital Adaptation Layer blueprint. It’s like a power strip for enterprise IT.
Darren Crowder and Ian Harfield introduce the approach in Who Moved My Cheese Meets the Digital World. A Digital Adaptation Layer creates a no-code “pluggable” interface with modern Data Virtualization, APIs, and data science tools. Crowder and Harfield explain how it facilitates SAP migration, data-as-a-service, and migration to the cloud.
A Digital Adaptation Layer can help you devour enterprise data spaghetti without splashing sauce all over your shirt. Mangia!
