From Calculator Coding to Relational Database Modeling with NC State’s Jordan Boyle

07/16/20 • 25 min

Are you being asked to deliver more sophisticated applications despite facing resource constraints? Demands on IT are increasing by the day with no sight of budget increases for headcount, and IT is being stretched to the limit just trying to keep systems and processes running. With a never-ending backlog of projects coming, organizations need to enable their existing workforce to deliver more with less in order to keep up with these increasing demands. Hear from Jordan of NC State and his success story of a non-developer pivoting his trajectory from business major to pro-developer to deliver incredible projects, including an expansive course registration system, that save his university millions of dollars and years of standard development time.

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Moving .NET Monoliths to Microservices with Trane Technologies’ Miroslav Samoylenko, Ph.D.

Do you have a sprawling legacy system that is difficult for business units to navigate? Learn how Trane Technologies has taken a staged approach to providing secured access to the information, stored in their legacy database and ERP systems, important to each business unit. This layered approach allows them to provide value to the business in the interim while they work towards providing access to all the stored information in structured categories of microservices/APIs.

In this episode of Make/Shift, hear from Miroslav Samoylenko PhD, Managing Technical Architect (Development Architecture) at Trane Technologies, as he discusses how they selected their initial low code use cases, a mix of internal and customer-facing apps, that had the most return on a minimum investment and then structured a low code program company-wide.

Equipping all developers—professional and citizen alike—to develop their own solutions within their own business units meant that a core team of experts could tackle more complex pain points. By setting up a Center of Excellence with a very small team of experts and a governance and security model to support groundswell of apps distributed across their organization, Trane was able to deliver quickly and efficiently on business needs.

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Expanding Globally and Taming Complex Supply Chains With Mobile-First Solutions With Secrid’s Thomas Boogert

Do you need to graduate from Excel and build a more robust application to handle internal processes? Secrid previously managed vendor relationships with dozens of spreadsheets, but recognized the risks associated with disparate data sources. Find out how Secrid created a solution quickly to address these issues, increasing the speed they can respond to vendors while maintaining an ability to scale as their business goes global.