Production Challenges of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) based Enterprise Applications

Abstract

Distributed Ledger Technology promises to solve multiple problems emergent of existing IT solutions and business processes on the intersection of trust, privacy, security, automation, authentication and authorization. However, multiple obstacles restrict the potential of the technology, specifically production-related challenges in the enterprise-centric ecosystem. The paper provides a holistic view of the top production readiness challenges of the decentralized application (dApp) for enterprise along with alternative solutions. We propose a novel approach to identify challenges and rank them. The identified challenges and possible solutions provide a baseline assessment. We present a novel, reusable, and extensible framework to help the system engineering teams to assess the challenges towards production readiness. We expect this study to benefit the DLT community to enhance the understanding of challenges and potential research areas for contribution.