WSO2 advocates for platformless digitalisation

Sanjiva Weerawarana Pic by Pradeep Pathirana

By Nishel Fernando

Homegrown WSO2, a leader in global digital transformation, has urged Sri Lankan businesses to embrace platformless digitalisation. 

This approach represents a paradigm shift away from building and managing complex platforms, allowing businesses to thrive in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape.

“Platformless is not just a technological shift; it’s a paradigm shift,” said Sanjiva Weerawarana, Founder and CEO of WSO2, during a network reception held with industry leaders, innovators, and technology experts in Colombo this week. 

“By eliminating the traditional platform bottlenecks, we’re empowering enterprises to channel their efforts into what truly matters: delivering exceptional value to their customers.”

He emphasised that collaboration remains essential for businesses to remain competitive and thrive in today’s fast-evolving digital landscape.

Platforms require large, highly skilled platform engineering teams, and these skills can be difficult to find. Additionally, each platform necessitates many complex choices and integrations between multiple systems, including DevOps pipelines, deployment management, monitoring and management systems, network substrates, and the actual cluster management.

Despite enterprises spending over 60 percent of their digital transformation budgets on building platforms, these platforms often fail to deliver the expected return on investment. 

In contrast, platformless digitalisation allows enterprises to deliver even better and more customer-centric applications compared to the resource-intensive platform approach.

In this context, WSO2 CTO Asanka Abeysinghe introduced WSO2 Choreo, WSO2’s internal developer platform as a service, as an alternative to the traditional platform-centric model.

“Choreo is our way of simplifying the complex,” he added. “It’s designed to help developers innovate faster, adapt quicker, and ultimately, create digital experiences that exceed customer expectations.”