Platform
Purpose of the Domain
To provide and govern the digital platforms that enable the efficient, secure, and scalable execution of applications, integrations, agents, and Artificial Intelligence, leveraging global-scale managed platforms, abstracting infrastructure, and accelerating modernization under an Intelligent & Lean approach.
What Does It Govern / What Does It Design?
- PaaS and serverless platforms provided by global-scale cloud ecosystems
- Catalog of managed services for modernizing enterprise applications
- Standards for platform adoption, use, and governance
- Multi-region scalability, availability, and resilience
- Observability, operational efficiency, and cost control
- Native platform capabilities for AI, agents, and automation
- Elimination of dependencies on servers and traditional infrastructure
Value and Advantages for the Organization
- High availability and global geographic coverage, reducing disruption risks
- Built-in compliance with dozens of security and governance standards, already certified by the platforms
- Economies of scale that reduce costs compared with traditional solutions
- Immediate access to hundreds of PaaS components to modernize enterprise capabilities
- Greater agility by eliminating server and IaaS management
- Better use of talent and resources, focused on generating value
- Acceleration of AI, agent, and automation initiatives without operational friction
Role of Artificial Intelligence in This Domain
AI maximizes the value of the platform by optimizing consumption, scalability, and operations, and by enabling intelligent architectures that adjust dynamically to demand and to business objectives.
Risks of Not Managing It Properly
- Disorderly use of platform services without governance
- Higher costs due to lack of control and standardization
- Underuse of the platforms’ advanced capabilities
- Unnecessary persistence of traditional infrastructure
- Low agility in the face of business changes or growing demand
Dependencies and Relationships with Other Domains
- Business Defines criticality, priorities, and required service levels
- Applications Builds and modernizes applications on PaaS services
- Agents Runs intelligent agents in a scalable and governed way
- Integration Enables orchestration and connectivity through managed platforms
- Data Consumes platforms for data storage, processing, and governance
- Security Incorporates security and compliance controls built in by design
Key message: Global-scale cloud platforms remove friction, reduce costs, and enable scalability. Eliminating servers is not a technical decision; it is a strategic decision to gain agility, resilience, and efficiency.