345 AIR gives you the full capabilities you need from a cloud integration platform – and more – in a single deployment
And we don’t stop there. As we deliver more projects on 345 AIR we continually build more runtime features into the platform to solve common problems.
Conceptually, this is how the architecture of your business likely works – or should do. You need to have three main layers: Demand & Experience, Delivery & Enablement and Infrastructure & Applications.
When you look at your IT estate, you’ll see that your apps will likely fit into one of these layers. See the descriptions below so you can see whether your apps match the expectations and demands of their layer.
Demand & Experience
Delivery & Enablement
Infrastructure & Applications
This is where your customers and your workforce interact on a daily basis. Web, mobile, instore. Small websites and apps solve specific needs. These apps are lightweight and quick to change. You can respond to opportunities quickly and delight your customers.
The connection between your demand and infrastructure. Flexible and adaptive, shielding your core apps from rapid change whilst enabling their value to be integrated. Your customer facing apps are built on these data and APIs. This is the glue holding it all together. This is 345 AIR.
This is the DNA of your business. The major systems that your business runs on, which have been around for years. These core systems are valuable yet are expensive and slow to change. It’s hard to change these systems in response to customer demand.
Questions you typically ask when planning or designing a solution in Azure include:
The answer you usually get is “it depends!”. This is a common and frustrating answer, and we were never satisfied with it. We recognised that building solutions on a consistent reference architecture improves developer productivity, provides predictable operating costs, makes the solution easier to manage and support. That’s why we built 345 AIR.
It’s not always like this. When you allow your dev teams to build solutions organically, they will do just what they need for the job in hand, which is fine. However, as more and more projects deliver you will find you have an inconsistent architecture, security may be applied inconsistently, your running costs will continue to spiral, updates and fixes will be harder to apply and you may struggle to keep everything running smoothly.
When you build on (or migrate to) 345 AIR, you get the rapid benefits of a well-designed application landing zone, plus DevOps, operational and runtime components that help you build and deploy faster, better and cheaper.
This is the 345 AIR framework. We are constantly developing 345 AIR, so the details behind this framework are constantly evolving and improving.
There is always a trade-off between running cost and other non-functional requirements such as security and availability. Depending on your priorities, we have multiple flavours of 345 AIR which we then match to meet your needs.
This platform has been built to help give you real value. For some Azure projects, especially when security and reliability are critical, even getting the base infrastructure in place can cost you £100K. 345 AIR
There are many examples where we have built business processes on 345 AIR, but here are a few that are a good fit:
If you are interested in delving deeper into the world of 345 AIR, I invite you to schedule a call with Andrew Rivers via Calendly. Simply use the ‘Book a 345 AIR meeting’ button and explore the subject further at your convenience.
