There are 2 ways to get the answer: one is to wait until the hacker come in, or do penetration test to your system. You do not want the first way for sure. Penetration test, probably with simple tool you can do it yourselves, but if it is that easy, wouldn’t that any cases of security breach today?

The question is not only whether you pass the test, but how comprehensive the penetration test is.

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The economist, Adam Smith, says in his treatise The Wealth of Nations, “If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, it is better to buy it of them.” Outsourcing as we know it today is merely a progression of an idea that has existed since early days of trade.

• Cost savings. The lowering of the overall cost of the service to the business. Access to lower cost economies through off-shoring the wage gap between industrialized and developing nations
• Cost restructuring. Operating leverage is a measure that compares fixed costs to variable costs. Outsourcing changes the balance of this ratio by offering a move from variable to fixed cost and also by making variable costs more predictable.
• Improve quality. Achieve a step change in quality through contracting out the service with a new service level agreement.
• Knowledge. Access to intellectual property and wider experience and knowledge.
• Contract. Services will be provided to a legally binding contract with financial penalties and legal redress. This is not the case with internal services
• Operational expertise. Access to operational best practice that would be too difficult or time consuming to develop in-house.
• Staffing issues. Access to a larger talent pool and a sustainable source of skills.
• Capacity management. An improved method of capacity management of services and technology where the risk in providing the excess capacity is borne by the supplier.
• Catalyst for change. An organization can use an outsourcing agreement as a catalyst for major step change that can not be achieved alone. The outsourcer becomes a change agent in the process.
• Reduce time to market. The acceleration of the development or production of a product through the additional capability brought by the supplier.

We provide few outsourcing options which includes:

• outsource whole IT department
• outsource IT Security Team
• outsource new application development
• outsource maintenance of ongoing application

New trends of outsourcing is called holistic outsourcing,  good reading can be found here.

• try to accommodate many of requirements in one product
• more complex to setup and implement due to many variables in accommodating diverse requierments
• locked in to vendor architecture an must rely on them to fix bug
• cost you money for licenses

In some cases Open Source product is more appropriate due to simplicity and its focus on 20% of the most important requirements.

In some projects this is what happen:

… and if this is the case, you bet you should go with Open Source solution.

Without Specialist product, this would be our architecture:

Inside the Application Box, we are likely find extremely crowded components, because there is no separation of concerns, it does everything under the sun: process logic, integration, database update, provide data to front end, etc.

In very simple application, this might work, but in Enterprise level application where you have huge requirements, and need for adaptability, this solution will be hard to manage.

The better approach will be to delegate some responsibilities to external modules or product called specialist, as shown bellow:

In above pictures, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) will take on Integration role, so you do not have to write custom code for that. Business Process Management (BPM) will be at the core of your process, which there no custom coding whatsover.

At the end of the day, we will see productivity will improve, and quality of life gets better .

• User will be able to participate because process is designed using graphical modeling tool –> removing communication gap and message loss between parties
• It is zero code approach, the model is directly deployed to runtime!
• Zero code means no programming error
• More declarative and explicit, easier to debug
• Agile methodology: shorter ‘code’–deploy–test cycle

If we can summarize the problems, probably it would be:

• Requirements not properly explained & understood
• Communication gap across stages and group
• Time constraint & complexity force programmers to deliver sub quality product
• Actual requirements only discovered during UAT
• Over-killed product have cost customers more time, resources and money

The remedy could be found by reading between the above lines:

• Let user participate in business modeling and requirements
• Reduce complexity of application by leveraging on specialized product
• Use Open Source if possible, because Open Source is easier to implement and focus on 20% most important requirements

In the next post, I will share, how BPM can fit into solving these problems.

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