Application Integration. EAI B2B BPM and SOA

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1 Brochure More information from Application Integration. EAI B2B BPM and SOA Description: Application integration assembles methods and tools for organizing exchanges between applications, and intra- and inter-enterprise business processes. A strategic tool for enterprises, it introduces genuine reactivity into information systems facing business changes, and as a result, provides a significant edge in optimizing costs. This book analyzes various aspects of application integration, providing a guide to the alphabet soup behind EAI, A2A, B2B, BAM, BPM, ESB and SOA. It addresses the problems of choosing between the application integration solutions and deploying them successfully. It supplies guidelines for avoiding common errors, exploring the differences between received wisdom and the facts on the ground. The overview of IT urbanization will help introduce English-speaking audiences to a powerful approach to information system flexibility developed in France. A key chapter approaches the analysis and interoperation of service levels in integration projects, while the discussion on deployment methodologies and ROI calculation anchors the theory in the real world. Application Integration: EAI, B2B, BPM and SOA relies on concrete examples and genuine experiences to demonstrate what works and what doesn t in this challenging, topical and important IT domain. Contents: Foreword xiii Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Chapter 2. What is Application Integration? The economy: the engine of integration The history and the issues of application integration Consequences for IT Integration typologies Classifying the integration problem types Classifying the applications EAI: Integrating enterprise applications (A2A) Accounting interpretation: EAI precursor EAI today Integrating inter-enterprise exchanges (B2B) Coupling A2A and B2B: A2B (or Business Collaboration) Managing business processes (BPM) Service-oriented architectures (SOA) 26 Chapter 3. Levels in Integration Services Transport and connectivity Defining partners 30

2 Data transport Connectivity Supervising transport Adapting the information Transformation Routing Storage Defining the rules Supervising exchanges Automating business processes Modeling business processes Executing business processes Supervising business processes Business process and integration: mediation and exchange Business process level and integration level Mediation process sub-level Exchange process sub-level Interaction between the sub-levels Interaction between integration and business process (BPM) Choosing the exchange architecture Synchronous/asynchronous communication Architecture: centralized or distributed? 95 Chapter 4. Types of Integration Projects Integrating a single application Exchange cartography The integration platform IT infrastructure projects Urbanization of information systems IT exchange infrastructure Integrating inter-enterprise exchanges Exchanging electronic documents (EDI) 112

3 XML standards Inter-enterprise spaghetti system Inter-enterprise exchange platforms Single Window initiatives Managing business processes Points of departure BPM project opportunity: choosing the processes The top-down approach Expected results Implementing a service architecture Characteristics of an SOA Elements of an SOA infrastructure Applicable norms and standards 142 Chapter 5. Application Integration Tools Brokers Application servers Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) BPM tools 148 Chapter 6. Understanding Integration Failures High failure rates The technological approach New technology or new packaging? Technology confronts reality 153 Chapter 7. Integration Myths The mirage of the single tool A conservative choice: example and consequences Modern architectural choice: example and consequences XML: miracle format Business adapters: simplifying the implementation Business adapter: implementation maintenance problem By way of a conclusion on business adapters Java: the proof of a modern solution 162

4 The real reason for Java Limitations of an all-java integration solution Files: the poor cousins of application integration Process and services are everything BPM and SOA: top-down approach from business to IT EAI and B2B: bottom-up approach from IT to business Complementary approaches 166 Chapter 8. Integration and IT Urbanization IT urbanization review Limits of urbanization without an integration solution How do integration solutions support IT urbanization? Limits of integration solutions without IT urbanization How does IT urbanization support integration solutions? The need to correlate integration solutions and urbanization 171 Chapter 9. Choosing an Application Integration Solution General approach Methodology for calculating return on investment (ROI) Introduction to the method Equations: maintaining the language of integration Operational workload gains through centralized supervision Quality of service improvements Opportunity study Analyzing the real needs of the enterprise Real needs and the state of the art Identifying possible business benefits Go/NoGo from General Management The search for a candidate: Request for Information (RFI) Why issue an RFI? Key points in an integration RFI Request for Proposal (RFP) or specifications document Interest and spirit of an RFP 185

5 Myths: standard questionnaire + one-stop supplier Key points in an RFP for application integration Presentations from the candidates 188 Chapter 10. Deployment Methodology Introduction to the method Deployment methodology: general principles Special case: deploying BPM and SOA Economic models of cost allocation Cost allocation linked to usage Cost allocation linked to usage and services (developed model) 195 Chapter 11. Operational Examples of Implementation Rationalizing bonds purchase order management (banking) The context The choices The solution The results An EAI hub (telecommunications) The context The choice Implementing the pilot: first difficulties Integration tests: disturbing results How did we end up here? Consequences of architectural choices Performance tests: catastrophic results Report card: final decision The lesson: what we could have done A2A and B2B (retail) The context The choice The solution The results BPM and SOA in service delivery The context 213

6 The choice The solutions The results Points to watch for this type of solution 216 Conclusion 217 Bibliography 219 Index 221 Ordering: Order Online - Order by Fax - using the form below Order by Post - print the order form below and send to Research and Markets, Guinness Centre, Taylors Lane, Dublin 8, Ireland.

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