General-purpose cloud platforms are giving way to next-gen systems that are carefully and intentionally connected to their enterprise use cases.
For pre-built health care modules, finance-ready compliance tools and retail-optimized e-commerce solutions, capabilities can now be delivered with agility, scalability and security from the cloud. And none of this has to be created from scratch by a corporate Platform Engineering team, freeing up resources to focus on delivering better services to stakeholders.
"A key factor is that these ICPs are made up of reusable, composable components that are interoperable – via APIs ," Red Hat OpenShift platform Cloud Services Advocoate Paul Whiten told ."It's an ecosystem built on top of public cloud infrastructure or private cloud infrastructure, but it's always a changing ecosystem. Ideally, if you don't like this component or that supply chain management solution, for example, you can drop it and put in another one.
- Pre-built industry-specific applications: These solve common problems faced by businesses in a specific industry, saving time and resources on development. - Security and compliance: ICPs are aimed to meet the strict security and compliance requirements of specific industries, reducing risks and costs for businesses.Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise application platform which serves as a foundational layer of an ICP, replete with all the apps, APIs and services running on its Kubernetes distribution needed for centralized control and security. Essentially, it enables enterprises to build hybrid clouds which can provide the foundation for an ICP.