Enterprise Integration, iPaaS and

Enterprise Service Business

Shane Petersen, Technology Architect, TechnologyOne

26 July 2018

Commercial in confidence

Agenda

Enterprise Integration

▪ Ci A Web Services Architecture

▪ Integration Capabilities

iPaaS and ESB

Integration example

Futures

Ci A Web Services Architecture

REST Web services

BPA Forms

Entity Services Ci A Analysers

Business Views

Entities

(TScript)

Enterprise Integration Capabilities

Web

Services

RESTful / JSON

WFS

CMIS

SOAP/XMLPlatform

SAML

SMTP

File

InterfacesCi A

Deep LinkingSFTP

Import / Export

T1 Connect

Attunity sync

iPaaS and ESB

Integration ChallengesTechn

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ne

Ente

rprise S

oftw

are

?

Other Systems

SCADA

Operational

Monitoring

Network

Design

Contractor

Systems

Other Service

Provider

Systems

Drawing

Management

Engineering

Collaboration

Vegetation

Management

Environment

Sust. Mgmt

External

Reporting

• Propagating master records

• Supplier & Service provider system integration

• Some complex external interfaces and API’s

• Legacy or bespoke systems integration

• ‘Cloud to cloud’ and ‘cloud to on-premises’

• Increasing number of devices and Apps

• Interface change management

?

iPaaS and ESB

Integration PatternsTechn

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gyO

ne

Ente

rprise S

oftw

are

iPaaS

(or ESB)

MDM

IoT

Pub/Sub

Complex /

Legacy

Subscriber 1

Ext. 1

Publisher

Subscriber 2

App 1

App 3..n

App 2

OneWater example

Use case...

• Inbound: Ci Anywhere web

service to create a Work Order for

SCADA Alarm

▪ Direct call to entity service or

indirect using a forms based web

service (to simplify request)

• Outbound: call to external web

service when a relevant Work

Order is updated

▪ Leverages BPA process

integration to enable further

extension and automation

BPA

Process

Web

Service

External

System

(or iPaaS)

TScript

Wo

rk O

rder

Ent

ity S

ervi

ces

3

2

Outbound

Form

Inbound

1

4

5

Configuration steps …

Inbound Interface:

▪ Create a Form

▪ Add a TScript

▪ Expose a Web Service

1

2

3

Specify

Alarm

Input

Fields

1Add Form

Flag for

Web Service use

Call Create Work Order

Entity Service

Request and Response

Form Steps

2Add TScript

Request Message Payload

Inbound

Endpoint

3Add WS

Configuration steps …

Outbound Interface:

▪ Create a Business Process

▪ Add a TScript

4

5

Call TScript

Set Process

Start

Trigger

4Create

a Simple

Process

Add Step

to Call

Web Service

Outbound Call

to Web Service

Endpoint

Entity &

Process

Integration

5Add TScript

Integration Futures

• OAUTH for CiA Web Services (planned for 2018B)

• Ci A ETL (planned for 2018B)

• Additional Entity Services (each release)

On the roadmap …

Already delivered …

• Trigger ETL processes via Ci A Web Services

• Create ETL step to read Ci A Analysers and

Business Views

• Add TScripts to existing Ci Workflows

• BPA Forms with Classic Ci Workflow

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26 July 2018

Commercial in confidence