Headlines

Recession risk keeps dollar on defensive

Tech sector facing most job cuts since 2003

China's bid to save its bacon

In a downturn, how will you behave?

Preserve the status quo, and hope for the

best

Blindly cut expenses across the board

Get Lean and be in a position to quickly move

How does an IT department get Foxy?

1. Reduce IT support costs

2. Reduce IT development costs

3. Agile IT systems

SysTalk

• Part of the LogicalTech Group

• Application Integration and BizTalk specialists since 2000

• Microsoft Gold Certified

• Team of MS certified BizTalk developers

ESB ROI

• 50% reduction in the time to implement an interface

• 75% reduction in time taken to rectify common data errors

• 50% reduction in maintenance effort

• Reduced salary costs

ESB ROI – Case Study

• Assume 5 interfaces are implemented per month $21,500

• Assume that each of the 5 new customer interfaces were previously manually serviced

• Maintenance now handed by one person rather than 2

• Assume you have 5 errors per day that can now be corrected by junior support staff

• That can now be implemented by your BA

$37,800

$15,000

$6,720

$5,500

Improved Customer Service

• Real time insight to business data.

Evolution of Enterprise Architecture

Evolution of Enterprise Architecture

Point to Point Integration

Integration Server ERP Server

Interface built specifically from system to system

Pros •Simple•Fast

Cons

Evolution of Enterprise Architecture

Multi Point to Point Integration

Ordering SystemIntegration Server

Warehouse

Payment GatewayCustomer

Information System

A natural evolution of the point-to-point model, as the Enterprise integrates new applications

Pros •Naturally evolves over time•Fast•100% fit for purpose

Cons •Maintainability•Is fragile•Low visibility of what is happening

Evolution of Enterprise Architecture

Hub and Spoke Architecture

Single system which acts as an interpreter between systems- Spokes handle passing data to and from the hub- The hub translates and routes the messages in between systems

Pros •Reduces number of interfaces for multi system solutions•Adds support for routing of messages•Much more code reuse

Cons •Can be difficult to scale. (Enterprise solution vssingle box)•Potential Single System point of failure.•The spaghetti has been contained, but not removed...#

Customer

Information System

Integration Server

Warehouse Payment Gateway

Ordering System

Evolution of Enterprise Architecture

Service orientated Architecture (SOA)

Systems exposes services that are well defined, implementation independent, and encapsulate Business functions.

Pros

Cons

Internet

Systems

Service

Endpoint

Organisation A

Systems

Service

Endpoint

Organisation B

Systems

Service

Endpoint

Organisation C

•Makes the enterprise understandable. •The more understandable the enterprise is the, the more re-use and innovation can happen.

•The enterprise will only be understandable if the vocabulary is documented•Can be a victim of its own success (overuse of service points)•Can be perceived as overly complex #

Evolution of Enterprise ArchitectureEnterprise Service Bus (ESB)

An extension of SOAAdds additional management, standardization and governance to an SOA framework.

Is generally a concept, however companies are releasing products with ESB in the name.Sonic Software was one of the first to use the phrase early in 2002Most mature organizations that have implemented SOA have inherently implemented some form of ESB

Pros •Adds standardization and enforces re-use of SOA frameworks.•Metrics and monitoring can be managed across the enterprise.•Endpoint monitoring to determine system stability. •Substantially reduces the amount of effort to implement new workflows. Business analysts can be utilized rather than developers to implement new integrations.

Cons •More development effort needed up front to set up.

Enterprise Service Bus

Payment Gateway

WarehouseCustomer

Information System

Ordering System

Submission Gateway

s

Router-Firewall

Evolution of Enterprise Architecture

So what the difference between ‘Hub and Spoke’ and ESB/SOA again?

Frameworks for Business people

How does a re-usable framework add value to an organisation ?

Frameworks for Business people

90% of all integration is point to point

System A

System B

System C

Add a Sender Party

An analyst's view of integration

Add a Document type

An analyst's view of integration

Add a Transformation

An analyst's view of integration

Add Recipient Party

An analyst's view of integration

Workflow Summary

An analyst's view of integration

Frameworks for Business people

Document Validation (Bad Data)

Frameworks for Business people

Typical validation error

System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaValidationException: The element 'item' has invalid child element 'codes'. List

of possible elements expected: 'code'.

at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.InternalValidationCallback(Object sender, ValidationEventArgs e)

at System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaValidator.SendValidationEvent(ValidationEventHandler eventHandler, Object

sender, XmlSchemaValidationException e, XmlSeverityType severity)

at System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaValidator.ElementValidationError(XmlQualifiedName name, ValidationState

context, ValidationEventHandler eventHandler, Object sender, String sourceUri, Int32 lineNo, Int32

linePos, Boolean getParticles)

at System.Xml.Schema.XsdValidator.ValidateChildElement()

at System.Xml.Schema.XsdValidator.ValidateElement()

at System.Xml.Schema.XsdValidator.Validate()

at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.ProcessCoreReaderEvent()

at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.Read()

at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.Read()

at XmlValidator.Form1.button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\ESB\XmlValidator\Form1.cs:line 53

Frameworks for Business people

Typical error returned to the end user

System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaValidationException: The

element 'item' has invalid child element 'codes'.

List of possible elements expected: 'code‘.

Frameworks for Business people

Customer friendly error

Error location and context assists in diagnosis and correction

Frameworks for Business people

Self Help Portals (Document visibility)

Realtime document tracking (for internal staff & external vendors/clients)

Communication checks

Management of document issues

Frameworks for Business people

Real-Time document tracking

“The integration layer is down yet again!”

Frameworks for Business people

Communications checks

Customer A

Customer B

Customer C

Customer D

Frameworks for Business peopleManagement of Document Issues

Your KPI’s at a glance

Historical view of performance

Familiar web interface

Accessible both inside and outside the firewall

Level 1 Helpdesk can diagnose and support many issues

Frameworks for Business people

Is your organisation reactive or proactive ?

How much do you spend every week dealing with day-to day issues?

Why should you deal with data issues created by someone else? Issues are more effectively dealt with by the people who know the data.

Finally “The integration layer is down, yet again!” is a statement you don’t have to put up with.

SysTalk

Application Integration and BizTalk Experts