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Adding More Value to Your ERP System Using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
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Agenda
Overview of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)SOA and PeoplesoftUsing iWay Adaptive Framework for SOA with
Peoplesoft
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Integration Perspective Shift
90s: Point-to-point integration 2000-03: Hub and Spoke integration Now: Service-Oriented integration
BrokerBroker
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Service InterfacesService Interfaces
ConnectorsConnectors
‘‘Roll Your Own’Roll Your Own’
And GatewaysAnd Gateways
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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a collection of services on a network that communicate with one another. The services are loosely coupled (meaning that an application doesn't have to know the technical details of another application in order to talk to it), have well-defined, platform-independent interfaces, and are reusable.
Gartner estimates that by 2008, more than 60 percent of enterprises will use SOA as a "guiding principle" when creating mission-critical applications and processes.
Definition from CIO Magazine, author TODD DATZ, Jan 2004
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SOA: Consumers and Providers
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(Self-Contained) ‘Services’ are the adaptation mechanisms for integration
Portals BrokerWeb
ApplicationsB2B
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Why consider SOA?
Cheaper - Reduce costs of integration solutionEasier - Simplify integration and abstract the
underlying complexitySmarter - Eliminate redundancyQuicker - Improve time-to-market Flexible - Provide agility
Leads to providing improved or new integration with… Internal and external organizations…
From existing IT assets such as Peoplesoft…Overall improves value and ROI
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Ways to implement SOA
Web Services SOAP and WSDL Fine-grained services Coarse-grained services
Enterprise Service Bus Messaging infrastructure
Adaptive Framework Technology-independent services provided over
one or many integration channels: Internet, ESBs, Brokers, etc…
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SOA Granularity
From Coarse-grained interfaces enable service composit ion in SOA, Jeff Hanson | August 29, 2003
Service Service InterfacesInterfaces
The peopleThe people Who do this Who do this
Don’t have Don’t have to knowto know
anything anything about this about this
Black box
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Ways to integrate with PeopleSoft
The ways to integrate with Peoplesoft is continuously “evolving”
7.x • Message Agent - synchronous API into application
8.1x• Component Interface (CI) - synchronous API into application• Application Messaging - asynch I/O (includes Gateway)• Business Interlinks - synchronous out of PS to external app
(decremented)
8.4x• Component Interface still there• Integration Broker (re-branded Application Messaging)
• asynch & synchronous I/O• Data transform via xslt• Can pass SOAP to Component Interface (SOAP to CI) - 8.42+
iWay’s SOA solutio
ns simplify
integration with
Peoplesoft
and protect you against
future changes
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Adaptive Framework Tools
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ApplicationExplorer
AdapterAdapterDesignerDesigner
AdapterAdapterTransformerTransformer
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Application Explorer
Adapter Designer
Adapter Transformer
Business benefits: Allows users to explore application
transactions they want to expose and generate schema for the transactions
Technical benefits Graphical discovery and
configuration No coding
Business benefits: Allows users to orchestrate
stateless multi-step processes for one or more adapters
Technical benefits Graphical assembly Deployable as an adapter for
reuse (patent pending)
Business benefits: Map one transaction to
another, transform documents
Technical benefits Any to any transformation Powerful engine
Application
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iWay Application Explorer
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iWay Adapter Designer
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iWay Adapter Transformer
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Summary
Employ SOA to increase value of existing IT assets and reduce total cost of ownership
Make reusable business processes as composition of services from Peoplesoft and other systems, applications, databases, and information in an Enterprise
iWay Adaptive Framework for SOA Self-contained integration solution for
implementing SOA with Peoplesoft Technology-independent services
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