The i4 Platform is built to run on the unlimited scalability, serverless compute power provided by the major cloud vendors. Although the platform is designed to be cloud agnostic, by default the platform is deployed on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Digital Product Platform
Accelerating Digital Transformation
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IoT, 5G, Cloud and other digital technologies present opportunities for enterprise leaders to rethink their business model and through digital transformation create better experiences for customers, employees, and ecosystem partners, lower costs and drive revenue growth
Accelerate your digital transformation with the i4 Digital Platform
What is a Digital Platform?
Digital Transformation
When companies act to take advantage of digital technology opportunities through digital transformation, they undertake three primary iterative activities: 1. Developing the new Business Model 2. Implementing a supporting Digital Platform and 3. Integrating the underlying existing Operational Backbone systems. Unless the Digital Platform succeeds a company will be limited in how far it can go in transforming its business model.
Digital Platform Components
The Digital Platform integrates the new technologies needed to create digital products. Digital Products include apps, bots, IoT devices, and other technology products developed to support the new business model. Multiple components comprise a digital platform as illustrated in the diagram. The components included will vary by business but typically include a data-ingestion engine, a machine-learning transactional engine to perform tasks or rules-based activities and increasingly, an AI engine and tools that allow digital platforms to talk to other software.
Multiple Digital Products
Case studies show successful digital transformations may create 50 or more new digital products that are continuously refined and augmented to support the new business model. Rather than creating one-off stand-alone digital products, a Digital Platform is designed to support and integrate all your digital products, now and in the future. This is achieved by buiding a digital platform containing a set of reusable components – data components, business logic components, new technology and infrastructure components –These components when aligned with the Business Model and integrated with the Operational Backbone will create better digital products and experiences for users.
i4 Digital Platform
The i4 Digital Platform adopts a best-of-breed technology architecture, integrating tools and technologies backed by leading vendors, cloud platforms and open-source communities. This makes the platform agile, developer-friendly and allows the rapid adoption of innovative new technologies.
i4 Digital Platform Core Technology Components
Elastic Cloud
Big Data
The i4 Platform leverages the fully managed database services provided by the major cloud vendors – by default BigQuery, Firestore and PostgresDB are integrated. These services provide the scalable foundation on which to build Enterprise level Digital Products.
AI/Machine Learnng
The i4 Platform by default is integrated with the Google Cloud AI Platform providing access to Google’s extensive library of AI services. These services, when combined with the i4 Platform event-driven architecture and data models, provide the foundation for AI-driven Digital Products.
IoT/Mobile First
The i4 Platform UI is cross platform and mobile first allowing customers, employees, suppliers to interact with the i4 Platform using mobile devices including chat or voice interaction. IoT devices can interact directly with the Platform with no interface. Authentication and security is implemented for all interactions.
i4 Platform: Digital Products
i4 Digital Products are a suite of applications, data models and services built on top of the i4 Digital Platform that is designed to act as a starting point for your Company or Industry Digital Product development. Rather than developing these services from scratch adopting one or more optional service layers can save months or years of development and accelerate your digital transformation
i4 Digital Product Layers
i4 Core
The i4 Core provides application account, user, device, application setup, API security, maintenance and authentication services. These core services are common and essential to any Digital Product.
i4 Business
The i4 Business backend service provides a standard business data model, database, associated business logic and APIs supporting basic Financial, ERP and SCM functions. This layer also provides the integation point to backbone operational systems.
i4 UI/UX
The i4 UI/UX Service provides a mobile-first, cross-platform, default UI/UX integrated with the i4 Backend Business Services. The UI can be used out of the box or as a starting point for a new Digital Product.
i4 Marketplace
The i4 Core, Business and UI/UX Layers provide the base services. The i4 Marketplace provides additional Digital Products, provided by Applied Logic or by independent development/implementation partners, that are designed to go beyond the basics and accelerate digital transformation. Products can be as simple as an IoT integration, a chatbot, a complex business process or complete vertical application.
i4 Digital Products feature:
Enterprise ready
i4 digital products support complex multi-company and multi-division corporate structures, enforce security and restrict data access at all organization units and roles. This allows your organization to run unlimited legal entities in the same easy to manage account each independently but with the ability to consolidate or perform intercompany transactions where authorized.
International
i4 digital products are designed to support multi-lingual and multi-currency transactions – allowing the product to be deployed to a worldwide workforce. English, Spanish and French are supported out of the box – other languages are easily added.
Smart Framework
i4 digital products are built the i4 Digital Platform a best of breed architecture, scalable technology platform. This makes the platform developer friendly, leverages large communities, allows rapid development, easy customization, maintenance and connectivity to cloud platform services .
Cross platform
i4 UI/UX products are built using web components allowing deployment as iOS, Android and Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). This provides a choice of mobile to desktop user interfaces to best fit to worker profile.
Artificial Intelligence
i4 Digital Platform provides integration with the Google Cloud AI platform. The i4 Chatbot included with the i4 UI/UX service is powered by DialogFlow – allowing users to use voice and text shortcuts to operate the i4 application. Additional AI-powered functionality will be available via the i4 Marketplace.
The platform, Prebuilt Business Products, and Community
The combination of the i4 Digital Platform + Prebuilt Products + Marketplace provides an open ecosystem allowing your team to accelerate your companies digital transformation. We encourage developers to join our community and market their digital products on the i4 Marketplace.
Use Cases
Developers
For Independent software developers building a industry vertical solution, upgrading an existing App or launching the next cool App we offer our Developer Partner program. The Partner program allows developers access to the core platform and base i4 Business and UI products, removing the need to “reinvent the wheel” and jump-start their app development.
Industry Solutions
Need a App specific to your vertical industry but can’t find a modern cloud app that fits? The i4 platform is designed to be customized and new functionality added as required. Only add the functionality specific to your industry while leveraging horizontal functionality common to all industries
Legacy Replacement
Maintaining mission critical legacy apps eventually reaches the point where developer resources become scarce and costs prohibitive. At some point you have to bite the bullet and rewrite the app using the latest technology stack and move it to the cloud. Jumpstart the project using the i4 to save time and reduce costs.
Point Solutions
Rather than replacing an existing application, augment it with a point solution. Point solutions can be as simple as an IoT integration, a chatbot, a or a complex business process. Contact us if you require a point solution.
Pricing
Pricing varies depending on the components required for your digital transformation - Contact us to discuss your specific requirements.
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