MuleSoft Catalyst – Accelerating the Digital Transformation

MuleSoft Catalyst is a distinctive approach to delivery which helps to achieve business objectives and customer success. Catalyst methodology is very vital for the organization which uses MuleSoft API’s and also for the people who has the responsibility for the implementation and extension of these API’s

MuleSoft Catalyst delivery methodology incorporates best practices, assets, services, training, industry accelerators, and customer success programs. Additionally, MuleSoft Catalyst provides the following benefits to organizations.

• It helps in aligning business outcomes using API-led approach
• It closes the digital transformation delivery gap using composable architecture
• It balances the short-term objectives with the long-term goals of the organization
• It helps in, time to market the project, in an efficient way and actually delivers success for the project and intern to the organization
• Catalyst promises the longevity of solutions delivered with MuleSoft technologies

MuleSoft Catalyst – Core Pillars

MuleSoft’s Catalyst methodology is focussed around three core pillars that are all aimed on achieving customer success. They are as follows

1. Business outcomes: Outline clear business outcomes with key performance indicators (KPIs)that are aligned with key stakeholders
2. Organizational enablement: Enabling an organization to utilize MuleSoft to deliver those business outcomes.
3. Technology delivery: Facilitate platform availability and team readiness to build APIs and integrations, delivering longer-term benefits

MuleSoft Catalyst – Core Principles

• Outcome-based approach: ensures that the technology built, and the use cases deployed, have a direct and clear link to measurable business objectives and outcomes.
• Balancing short- and long-term views: enables to focus on the organization’s vision while delivering current projects and in addition generating value.
• Platform as the basis for solutions: enables an organization to build and maintain a foundational platform that delivers shared services and capabilities for hosting multiple solutions.
• Decentralization: encourages decentralized governance and enablement over centralized development and control.
• Products in addition to projects: A product mindset emphasizes the need to focus on the development of products that have their own lifecycle. This mindset allows organizations to create continuous desired and meaningful value by allowing for a product to evolve based on real and demonstrable needs that can be evidenced. 
•  Focus on composability: This principle increases flexibility and agility by delivering solutions based on composable building blocks, achieved by pragmatically architecting for reuse and adopting an API-led approach to connectivity.
• Don’t reinvent the wheel: delivery team and the customer can leverage these assets to avoid starting from scratch, expedite development, and focus time and resources on customer-specific needs. These assets and resources are all contained within Catalyst Knowledge Hub.

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MuleSoft Catalyst – Phases

The four Catalyst phases are:

Plan for Success

This is the initial phase which establishes the overall foundation, in which the vision, roadmap and architecture of the platform and project is defined. This phase also involves and staffing and enabling of the core team. In this phase overall success plan in aligned with business outcomes and KPIs.

Establish the Foundation

This phase entails defining the solution architecture, deploying the platform, and executing projects, including the design of composable solutions. In addition, addressing staffing and training needs for the team is also an integral part of this phase.

Build to Scale

This phase involves achieving scalability and strive for reuse, along with delivering additional projects.

Measure Impact

The team reviews the feedback in this phase, determine strengths and weaknesses, and evaluate KPIs against the output.