- CloudFabrix

AppDimensions™
CloudFabrix AppDimensions™
GPaaS
Governance Platform as a Service™
Transform, Modernize and Govern applications anywhere
Benefits
Problem
Manage and govern applications
anywhere: on-premises or cloud
Embracing Digital Transformation, a new strategic imperative is on top of the mind of every CEO,
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Transform legacy core application
without disruptions
opportunities it can bring. It is now more a question of “when and how” rather than “if” they
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Cloud native development &
governance
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Microservices & Containers ready
platform
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Multi-cloud enablement and
choice
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CIO and other senior management cutting across industries due to the disruption and
should transform their core business digital and leverage ecosystems it enables. However, twothirds of the initiatives are failing to realize the objectives and are facing severe challenges due
to technology gap, magnitude of the change involved, application silos, multiple clouds to
handle, constant change and speed it demands, data explosion and security along with
regulatory vulnerabilities it presents due to global expansion and scale.
What is missing in today’s approaches is the use of a ‘Cohesive’ Digital Governance solution
that can be implemented firm-wide to tie people, policies, processes and technology assets for
delivering desired business outcomes in a consistent, compliant and cost effective manner.
360-degree, quantitative and fullstack application governance
Having such a solution that uses platform based approach to make it fit to the enterprise needs
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Application deep discovery &
Active Blueprint Designer
business capabilities are often locked in the legacy systems, it is important to modernize them
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Outcomes and insights driven
governance & operations
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Complete visibility of application
cost, compliance and customer
satisfaction in real-time
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Real time visibility into application
availability and performance
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is need of the hour due to varying needs and priorities of each enterprise. As most of the core
to keep up with the increased ‘velocity’ of changing digital delivery of products and services.
However, traditional methods of modernizing legacy applications through lift and shift methods
can disrupt productivity so enterprises need to have the ability to control when and how these
applications will be modernized.
Introducing AppDimensions™ - GPaaS
CloudFabrix AppDimensions™ is an innovative Digital Governance & Modernization platform that
allows enterprises to holistically transform and govern many transforming entities to meet
business outcomes in a consistent, quantifiable and policy driven automated manner.
Real time remediation actions and
automated workflows
AppDimensions™ unique approach of providing Digital Governance platform as a service,
Modernize technology, operations
and processes
enterprises implement organization-wide digital governance to succeed in their strategic digital
Built-in security, policy control
and elasticity
combined with outcomes, insights and ecosystem market place will revolutionize the way
transformation initiatives. AppDimensions™ also unifies various teams, processes and
technologies seamlessly in order to bring down the silos and increase efficiency of applications
that support the digital transformation initiatives by leveraging the following key capabilities.
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Outcomes & Insights driven Governance
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Active Blueprints with Application Dimensions
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Marketplace approach
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Microservices and containers ready
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Application Deep Discovery & Intelligence
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Dev Console and API Gateways
AppDimensions™
Traditional Approach Vs Digital Governance Approach
Key Solutions
Legacy App Transformation
AppDimensions™ takes a unique approach in transforming the legacy applications without requiring any forklifting to
avoid disruptions. It guides the enterprises through series of steps to specify and introduce active governance that is
application specific for bringing the transformation in a controlled manner by measuring the readiness of each
dimension and making recommended corrective actions. Its scoring method and analytics driven approach will allow
the enterprise IT to continuously track the progress and take suggested actions to ensure successful transformation.
Cloud Native Application Development
AppDimensions™ is built on CloudFabrix Micro-services platform that provides many built-in capabilities to bringing
together leading technologies like Microservices, Containers, DevOps automation to help enterprise effectively
develop and govern cloud native applications. The platform supports required tooling for developers to automate full
stack development, deployment and governance and allow integration with DevOps tools. It also provides DevOps
console to develop and administer Microservices based applications.
Application Portfolio Analysis
AppDimensions™ provides a powerful platform to perform continuous deep discovery of applications and analyze
large amounts of runtime and operations data to produce insights and recommendations required for performing a
comprehensive set of application portfolio analysis. Enterprise can customize the analysis and reports as per their
needs to streamline the existing portfolio for prioritizing digital initiatives and lowering Total Cost of Ownership.
Multi-cloud Enablement/Choice
AppDimensions™ allows enterprises to maintain a centralized approach to define and enforce application policies
while leveraging the cost benefits, capacity and speed of provisioning of the external cloud where applicable. It will
make the access to their infrastructure resources from public, local and private clouds, as one cloud. Complete with
multi-tenant supported self-service portal for the users to select and build their application and services stack as
per the policies and automate the provisioning.
AppDimensions™
Key Capabilities
Application Deep Discovery & Intelligence
Outcomes and insights driven Governance
Enterprise applications have myriad of components,
integrations, platforms, infrastructure, management and
reporting dependencies. The applications naturally
sprawl and develop inter-dependencies producing
complicated solutions over time.
AppDimensions™ provides a quantitative and 360degree approach for multiple stakeholders to
continuously evaluate application performance against
its intended state. Its roll-up governance score
approach and recommendation engine simplifies
governance, operations and diagnosis activities
through its drill-down insights, analytics and
dashboards to identify the causes and take
recommended corrective actions. This new and
outcomes based approach provides a common and
consistent application baseline irrespective of
underlying environment. It also unifies the teams,
processes and technologies seamlessly so any
applications supporting the digital initiatives can
perform and deliver as intended with optimal efficiency.
CloudFabrix AppDimensions™ delivers application
intelligence from various stakeholder viewpoints on a
continuous basis by discovering and actively measuring
the
entire
application
stack
and
various
interdependencies to help IT departments and business
owners effectively plan and deliver application agility
and governance.
Active Blueprints & Application Dimensions
AppDimensions™ Market Place
AppDimensions™ application Active Blueprints serve as
a foundation to deliver unified and automated
application governance on any platform or
infrastructure or cloud. Unlike typical static application
blueprints, CloudFabrix Active Blueprints capture the
entire stack definition as well as the dynamic
operational needs of applications and associated
governance dimensions (e.g. configuration, availability,
cost, compliance…) from multiple stakeholder views.
Enterprises can achieve standardization, agility and
portability across any environment by using application
Active Blueprints.
Its support for market place enables enterprises to
leverage partner ecosystem to build custom application
insights and analytics or use readily available ones to
meet their needs and reduce the time and cost of
introducing digital governance.
Microservices Platform
DevOps Console and API Gateway
Using
AppDimensions™
underlying
CloudFabrix
Microservices platform, users will have the ability to
build
and
orchestrate
technology
agnostic
Microservices to any platform or infrastructure or cloud
leveraging container technologies and many other builtin micro-services capabilities.
AppDimensions™ DevOps console provides convenient
and comprehensive way for DevOps personal to
effectively develop and administer Microservices based
application using various service dependency, built-in
API browser and platform dashboards.
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Multi-language Support
Multi-tenancy support
Load balancing & HA
Micro-level approval injection
Real-time message correlation
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Docker Support
Message scaling (Kafka)
DB & Logging Services
Ticketing Integration
Self-governance
Its extendable architecture allows enterprises or
ecosystem partners to bring advanced custom
integrations to 3rd party services, platforms and clouds.
The API gateway exposes APIs and can dynamically
add APIs for microservices built-in using the platform.
The API Gateway serves as single integration point for
ecosystem vendors to leverage and integrate with the
platform capabilities.
AppDimensions™
“Transformation without Disruption“
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