文档介绍:企业应用整合
--- 异构应用的业务流程自动化
遗留应用的整合
企业中还有大量的遗留应用系统,如何将它们与新开发的应用整合起来。
通过异构系统的整合,保护现有的投资,还可以方便地产生新的商务流程从而带来新的利润!
应用的整合为什么重要?
是为了:
把事情做得更好
Automate Existing Processes
做一些新的事情
Provide New Services
最终目的是:
节约费用
Take manual Intervention out of a Process (Order Fulfillment, Inventory management, etc.)
Coordinate better with Suppliers, Business Partners, or Customers
赚取新的利润
Provide New Products or Services (Web Enabled, (binations of Products, Services)
Provide Better Service (Complete On-line Loan Approval, Purchase PC and On-line Service with single transaction
应用集成的“噩梦”
Internal Users
Customers
Suppliers
Partners
“噩梦”的解决方案EAI”涅磐”
Internal Users
Customers
Suppliers
Partners
Enterprise Application Integration Environment
流程驱动整合!
Internal Users
Customers
Suppliers
Partners
Enterprise Application Integration
EAI 解决的五个问题
基础构造:
1. 消息传递(Middleware)
2. 已有应用系统的接口(Adapters or Connectors)
3. 将所有数据转换为“世界语”(共同的语言)
4. 翻译“世界语”,解决方言问题。
真正的商务价值产生在业务流程自动化以后。
5. 协调多个系统–做什么?什么时候做?谁来做?等等。(管理异构系统之间的业务流成)
Integration Server 特性
由业界最好的技术组成:
流程引擎
Award Winning - Cross Roads ‘A’ List
基于业界标准- XML and XSLT
Sun Java Message Queue –我们最好的消息中间件
与 OS/390 主机系统由杰出的集成能力
流程引擎具有非常好的处理能力–单隔引擎处理超过一百万的商务流程!
轻量的适配器
简单的适配器生成技术
四种工作流(Workflow)
Document/Image
Workflow
Contract development
Information fulfillment
Change management
Embedded
Workflow
ERP
HR
Desktop apps
Collaborative
Workflow
Messaging based
New product development
Issue resolution
Scheduling
Production
Process
Management
Real-time, in Production
Extreme High Scalability
Zero Latency and Straight-
Through Processing
工作流类型
Document/Image
Workflow
Plexus FloWare
Tibco InConcert
IBM MQSeries Integrator (formerly Flowmark)
Embedded
Workflow
Process Manager
SAP embedded Workflow
BEA Process Integrator
WebMethods
Collaborative
Workflow
Lotus Notes
MS Outlook
Production
Process
Management
Integration Server