Industry research indicates that the number of production applications running in edge locations will expand significantly within the next three years. The problem is that technical resources at the edge have not yet caught up with the scale of application growth.

The challenge confronting major retailers such as G-III Apparel Group is that the expansion of its business, encompassing many brands, is forcing it to adapt its systems architecture accordingly. This means more applications to manage, and G-III is turning to partners such as Infosys Ltd. and integration platform providers such as Boomi LP to provide solutions that will work.

“As the growth happens, we have to be more agile and more adoptive,” said Reji Paul (pictured, left), director of IT at G-III Apparel Group. “We are bringing in more and more brands, so we need to be on top of everything like that. We moved many of the components from the legacy system into the SaaS applications. It is on the cloud, and many of these SaaS applications are multi-tenant, which means it can be shared across our partners.”

Paul spoke with theCUBE’s Savannah Peterson and Paul Nashawaty at Boomi World, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He was joined by Reetwick Ghosh (right), senior director of digital transformation strategy and sales at Infosys Ltd., and they discussed creative new solutions for application design and management. (* Disclosure below.)

IT strategy for application growth

Research has shown that 87% of respondents in a study viewed application portability and moving them from a monolithic architecture as important elements for an IT strategy to cope with application growth, according to Nashawaty. This strategy aligns with Boomi’s approach as well as with an open, composable game plan for application programming interface integration across cloud and development ecosystems.

“That’s where the entire concept of a composable architecture comes in,” Ghosh said. “You reuse the modules, you build those business services that are required for critical functions in the organization, and then you build on top of that. G-III is going that way; they’re adopting that same journey. They’re defining that architecture in a way which is composable and you continuously build on it, reuse it [and] build on its scale.”

For users such as G-III, Boomi has also made application design a simpler process through low-code and no-code tools. Boomi’s deployment of Agentstudio in May provided an interface for building, managing and governing AI agents, and it is being integrated into platforms such as Amazon Q with low-code tools.

“That’s a big shift that has happened,” Ghosh said. “Gone are the days when you needed a troop to build an application. You can quickly turn around an API. That’s the power of low-code.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Boomi World:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Boomi World. Neither Boomi LP, the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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