Active and Passive Platforms
Platforms are everywhere. Active Platforms will win, others will lose out.
Active Platforms – Those that enable participants to define and create their communities of own networks.
Three Levels of Digital Platform Opportunity
Your Biz As
A Platform
Your Biz As
A Platform Enabler
Your Biz As A Platform Enabler
+ System Integration

MATURITY LEVELS OF A PLATFORM

Table Stakes for Survival
Expose Back Ends as Services. API enable everything, EVERY application or data that needs to be exposed, found and orchestrated in real time
API Enablement for Consumption by Customers
Provide Enablers to your Customers , to expose what they need to join you. Be the Facebook that provides the link to your customers with their communities
Customers Expose and Consume APIs
Provide System Integration to secure Business Objectives. Fostering interconnected web of assets.
Torry Harris Business Solutions can help build your Digital Platforms, CONTACT US today.
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