July 2019
Beginner to intermediate
84 pages
1h 48m
English
book
Getting Started with Enterprise Blockchain
by Michael Bradley, David Gorman, Matt Lucas, Matthew Golby-Kirk
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Foreword
The hype around blockchain (thankfully!) peaked in early 2018, largely driven by financial speculation around Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto-currencies. Despite inauspicious beginnings, and the “Isn’t this just a database?” technical naysayers, blockchain technology is a new and powerful set of tools for solving reliable and automated intercompany code and data sharing, using cryptography to enforce access control, privacy, and encryption.
Historically, building a consortium with many member corporations, and putting in place automated sharing of data, has been reserved to a very small number of use cases, and to companies with very deep pockets—typically in banking, for example, the Visa or Swift payment networks.
Open source enterprise blockchain technology, notably Hyperledger Fabric, and managed Blockchain as a Service platforms, from IBM and others, empower business leaders and technologists to cost-effectively build consortia for many more use cases and industries, across a broad set of economic (business) networks.
Enterprises have spent the past 10+ years digitizing their internal IT processes to the point that the time is now ripe to look at the lack of digitization and inefficiencies between enterprises within a business network. Today, most enterprises exchange data with their business partners via an unholy mix of emails, documents, fax, phone calls, CSV- and Excel-format flat files, database dumps, EDI, and web service calls. We can do so much better!
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