Composable Applications

What is a composable business model?

There are four primary principles that encompass composable enterprise model functions: 

• Increased speed and pace through discovery 
• Greater agility through modularity 
• Orchestration that strengthens leadership roles 
• Autonomous business resilience 

Overall, composable business models work with neatly packaged components and use them as building blocks to collaborate and adapt to change easily. When these types of models are implemented, they ease the burden of creating new solutions because you don’t have to start building from the ground up. 

According to Gartner, there are three building blocks of composable business:

1. Composable thinking The assumption that anything is composable, combines the principles of modularity, autonomy, orchestration and discovery. Creativity and strategic thinking is essential in deciding what to compose and when.
2. Composable business architecture A composable structure and purpose enables Flexibility and resilience. Your business architecture should be shaped by these structural capabilities.
3. Composable technologies These are the pieces and parts of tech tools and what connects them together. Combining these building blocks of composable business allows organizations to adapt quickly to changing conditions.

What is composable architecture?

Composable architecture is the method of scaling storage, databases, networks, and compute functionality with a large degree of robust flexibility. In composable architecture, APIs help to enhance pliability and ecosystem oversight. Businesses that are preparing for digital-first, use composable architecture to scale and compose their IT footprints at an astounding pace. 

The introduction of cloud technology brings with it enterprise agility and dexterity. Businesses are now trying to echo the same effects with traditional IT infrastructure, including the onboarding of private data centers. This has caused rapid growth in the uptake of composable architecture and is allowing for a growing number of data centers and private servers to emulate cloud providers. 

Key components in a composable enterprise architecture:

1. Infrastructure as an application IT infrastructure should be separated, with each part treated as an independent entity. Applications can be visualized as building blocks that are managed in code form via APIs.
2. Infrastructure automation Monolithic architecture is fastly becoming outdated. Composable architecture allows data to be broken up into smaller segments that can then be effortlessly automated.
3. Multi-cloud approach Multi-cloud strategies can be used by IT departments to compartmentalize workloads. Multi-cloud management has enhanced security procedures for DevOps processes but on the other hand, allows you to scale apps and services with the use of dedicated API management tools.

What is composable technology?

Composable technology is the infrastructure, storage, and networking capabilities that have been rehashed from physical locations and managed through a software-based web interface. Composable infrastructure is the core of private and hybrid cloud solutions. It also helps to convert data center resources into readily available cloud services. 

Composable technology has been defined by Gartner as being the “tools for today and tomorrow”. It’s often described as the pieces and components of everyday business and the glue that holds everything together.

The connection between composable applications & enterprise

To successfully build a tech stack with composable architecture, you first need to establish a habitat composed of different systems that share data via APIs. Modular-based setups can help businesses to alter and shift their needs depending on both internal and external factors. 

Composable applications help businesses to understand technological solutions and guide them through a process of ever-changing business requirements. 

This can be achieved using the following: 

• Smaller fragmented pieces of bigger, more intricate components. 
• The APIs connect fragmented pieces and make them composable. 

The goal is to build a collaborative architecture that independently attaches to and connects with APIs that interact with each other. Composable applications enable businesses to be proactive, build, deploy and adapt to change quicker than ever before.   

Composable data and analytics

According to Gartner, composable data and analytics are key to accelerating change by feeding and scaling AI. Easily assembled AI from various tools is effortlessly maintained and assists with BI, data management, and predictive analytics.

Analytics initiatives that use composable data can implement new paths and package data as part of a product or service. These can be built relatively cheaply through low-code and no-code tools that are acquired through the cloud. 

The digital transformation benefits of composable applications

Composable applications and digital transformation are inextricably linked and need each other to achieve widespread success. Digital transformation can be described as a contemporary approach to business practices and composable applications can offer the support required through an interdependent system. 

This means that there isn’t a need to depend on a specific system that risks becoming obsolete in the future. The benefits of composable applications are vast because of the evolving nature of its independent self-governing systems. If one system fails, it doesn’t affect the entire operation and can be easily adjusted or rectified. 

One of the biggest benefits of composable applications in relation to digital transformation is the ability to make developers more productive. New applications can be easily integrated into technology stacks without data silos even coming into the equation. 

Digital transformation also helps to frame and redefine a business’s core competencies. Organizations that lack digital experience can become fully onboarded to digital operations management. Composable architecture is the only viable solution for enhanced business competition and rising consumer expectations. This is because traditional IT infrastructure can easily cease to function and fail to react to rapidly changing demands.