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Upgrading to webMethods 9.01 Finding Success Through Partnership

March 2014

webMethods 9.01 Upgrade - Success Through Partnership

Agenda

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• Introductions

• Why Upgrade?

• Project Overview

• Opportunities (Issues and Challenges)

• Notable Planning Points

• Key Takeaways

• Question and Answer


Introductions

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Presenter: Matthew Frank

• Middleware Practice Director

• 13 years Middleware experience

• [email protected]

About TechStone • Established 2004

• Software AG partner since 2005

• Founders working with

WebMethods since late 1990s

• Headquartered in Houston, TX

• Services and solutions

mailto:[email protected]


Introductions

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Presenter: Brenda Carbuccia

• Lead Technical Specialist

• 15 years IT experience

• www.valero.com

About Valero • Fortune 500 Based in San Antonio,

TX

• International manufacturer and

marketer of transportation fuels,

other petrochemical products and

power

• Approximately 7,400 outlets carry

our brands in the US and

Caribbean, Canada, UK and

Ireland

http://www.valero.com/


Why Upgrade?

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Upgrade Presentation by Jonathan Heywood:

• Dec 17 2013

• http://www.softwareag.com/us/rc/rc_perma.asp?id=tcm:16-115932

So why TechStone?

http://www.softwareag.com/us/rc/rc_perma.asp?id=tcm:16-115932






Project Overview

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Upgrade 8.01 to 9.01 • Integration Server

• Broker Server

• Adapters • SAP

• JDBC

• Trading Networks

Environment • Dev, Test, Prod

• 1 IS per Environment

• TN

• 2 Reverse Invoke servers

• MWS

• OS is HP

Source Code

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Project Overview

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Packages • 100-125

• No deprecated services

• No required changes

• Mostly WmPublic services

Additional Details • Database 500GB

• 336 partners with a daily

transaction volume of

26,000

• Transaction size

1KB – 439MB

Source Code

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Opportunities

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• Unexpected indexes

• Dropped and added after upgrade

• Performance issues

• Failure to add back schemas after upgrade

DB Upgrade

• Unexpected emergency

Resource

Project

Challenges


Notable Planning Points

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Stakeholders

• Identify early On

Direct upgrade paths

• 7.1 and above

When to upgrade

• 7.1 and 8.0 asap

• 8.2 in 2014

• 9.0 in 2015/2016

Hardware thoughts

•Capacity – current and future

•System Requirements

•Hardware lifecycle

•Platform strategy – current and future


Notable Planning Points

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Overall Upgrade Approach

• Phased or big-bang?

• Parallel or in-place?

Data

• Try not to keep it

• Archive if a must

Testing

•Pattern and Focused

•What to test?

•How much to test?

•Tools (iTKO LISA, Green Hat, SOAP UI, Dimensions Express, Junit)

•Capture Data


Takeaways

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• Correct participants

• Engaged early Stakeholders

• Determine approach early Testing Strategy

• Avoid migrating old transactional data Data

• Work with experts Simplify

• Helps avoid unnecessary issues Noting Changes

• TechStone went above and beyond Extra Mile


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Questions?

For more information:

Matthew Frank

TechStoneTechnology Partners

[email protected]

www.techstonellc.com

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.techstonellc.com/

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