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IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender 8.4 Product Overview

Luke Raiano – Sr. Product Manager, Industry Solutions

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Course Objectives

At the end of this course you will be able to:

– Define IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX)

– Describe the business challenges solved by WTX

– Describe key product capabilities

– Recall the value this solution provides customers

– Describe the deployment options

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Course Progress

1. Product definition

2. Business challenges

3. Key capabilities

4. Deployment options

5. Summary

6. Resources

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WebSphere Transformation Extender

MAP TRANSFORM

Multi-In Multi-Out

Embedded

Standalone

Event driven

Forms IntegrationESB

J2EE

App. ServerProcess Server

Standalone System z (native)

Windows, UNIX, Linux

Lotus

WebSphere

Information Management

WTX takes ANY kind of data from their native formats,

transforms and validates it, with NO CODE.

And outputs it into their native target formats

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Product Portfolio – Engine Editions

WTX with Command Server“Standalone” offering. For script and batch

process-driven jobs

WTX for Integration ServersWTX for WebSphere Message Broker

WTX for WESB/WPS

WTX for IBM Sterling B2B Integrator

WTX for Application Programming

“Embedded” use via API

Use with WAS, CICS, 3rd Party Products

WTX with Launcher“Standalone” offering. For use with file events,

database changes and messaging events.

AIX

HP-UX

Linux

z/OS

Solaris

Windows

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Product Portfolio – Design Tools

WTX Design Studio

Eclipse-based development environment. Includes:

Type Designer: define data objects (including source and target data

structures).

Map Designer: develop maps that define your data transformation logic.

Integration Flow Designer: design systems of maps that model your data

transformation business processes.

Database Interface Designer: import metadata from relational databases to generate

type trees for queries or tables.

SDK: APIs for C, C#, Java, EJB and COBOL.

WTX Runtime: test and execute maps in a development environment.

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Product Portfolio – Industry Packs

X12 – B2B standard for inter-industry electronic exchange of business transactions; primarily in North America

EDIFACT – (Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce, and Transport) International standard for EDI

EANCOM - A subset of EDIFACT, EAN defines unique id codes for products and locations also used for barcodes. Designed for the retail, EANCOM is used in healthcare, transport, electronics and publishing.

TRADACOMS – an EDI standard used in the retail sector for general merchandise, primarily in the UK

ODETTE – (Organization for Data Exchange by Tele Transmission in Europe) e-business communications standard fro the automotive industry

HIPAA – (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) addresses standardization of electronic patient health, administrative, and financial data

HL7 – (Health Level 7) is an ANSI-accredited standards organization who’s domain is clinical data

NCPDP - (National Council for Prescription Drug Programs) standards maintenance organization for finalized HIPAA transactions; used in the retail pharmacy sector.

An Industry Pack

contains meta-data,

data validation, usage

rules, transformation

maps and additional

functionality specific to

guidelines required by

the regulatory body or

industry service

provider

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Product Portfolio – Industry Packs (con’t)

SWIFT – (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial

Telecommunication) secure messaging interface for wholesale

financial transactions

SEPA - (Single Euro Payment Area) pan-European electronic

payments infrastructure initiative. Includes templates credit

transfers, direct debits

NACHA - (National Automated Clearing House Association)

North American ACH compliant message exchange for electronic

payments

FIX - (Financial Information eXchange Protocol) message

specifications for automated trading of financial instruments

ACORD – (Association for Cooperative Operations Research

and Development) insurance industry standards for life, property,

and large commercial accounts

An Industry Pack

contains meta-data,

data validation, usage

rules, transformation

maps and additional

functionality specific to

guidelines required by

the regulatory body or

industry service

provider

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2. Business challenges

3. Key capabilities

4. Deployment options

5. Summary

6. Resources

Course Progress

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Key Customer Business Challenges

Key challenges and pain points

– Complying with industry & regulatory standards in timely manner & supporting them as

they change

– Incompatible data formats between applications and data stores

– Maximizing previous investments in packaged applications & enterprise information

systems

– Costly deployment of hardware capacity for elastic transformation demand

Solution value and benefits

– Compliance, currency and speed-to-solution with industry packs

– Faster support of new business initiatives

– Best-in-market performance transformation capability without writing code

– Enable transformation capability in a private cloud with provisioning, management and

monitoring tools for cost effective deployments

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IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender 8.4 - Targeted Market Opportunity

IBM WebSphere MQ, MB, Process Server, and ESB install bases

– WTX enhances these solutions by providing universal transformation and Integration

capabilities

– WTX extends connectivity to partners and suppliers through industry packs

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator install base

– New industry standards

– Single tool for all transformation needs

IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender install base

– X-sell opportunity for customers using/considering a B2B gateway: SBI +WTX

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IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender – Positioning and Summary

Elevator pitch

– WTX delivers best-of-breed transformation capabilities in stand-alone, WebSphere and

third-party environments without writing code. This universal solution provides a single

environment for defining transformation that can be used across the enterprise.

– WTX provides predefined industry packs to rapidly deploy transformation solutions easily

and manage changing industry standards

– Integrating Sterling B2BIntegrator and WTX allows customers to use new and existing

WTX maps with new or existing B2B processes. This robust integration increases

responsiveness to business needs and allows for consistent transformation for internal

and B2B integration.

For more information, see:

– Software Seller’s Workplace http://w3-103.ibm.com/software/xl/portal/content?synKey=O906004Z94515Q61#overview

– External announcements http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.jsp?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS211-

381/index.html&lang=en

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.jsp?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/0/897/ENUS211-

390/index.html&lang=en

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1. Product definition

2. Business challenges

3. Key capabilities

4. Deployment options

5. Summary

6. Resources

Course Progress

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WebSphere Transformation Extender

MAP TRANSFORM

Multi-In Multi-Out

Embedded

Standalone

Event driven

Forms IntegrationESB

J2EE

App. ServerProcess Server

Standalone System z (native)

Windows, UNIX, Linux

Lotus

WebSphere

Information Management

WTX takes ANY kind of data from their native formats,

transforms and validates it, with NO CODE.

And outputs it into their native target formats

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Key Capabilities

Code-Free

Design and

Deployment

One Engine, multiple

deployment options

In-Process data

validation

Ontological data model for all data

types

High throughput execution of

complex transformation

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Key Constructs

Type trees

– Graphical “data dictionary”

Maps

– Complete definitions of data objects and the rules for their transformation.

• A subroutine implemented as a map is called a Functional Map

Cards

– Inputs to or outputs from maps

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What’s new in WTX 8.4

Integration with Sterling B2B Integrator

WTX Hypervisor Edition

– IBM Workload Deployer

64-bit Windows runtime

Linux RHEL v6

WebSphere Adapters v7.5

z/OS Engine enhancements

XMLSS parser for zAAP support

Quality Enhancements

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2. Business challenges

3. Key capabilities

4. Deployment options

5. Summary

6. Resources

Course Progress

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Deployment Options

Stand Alone Script/Batch

Process-driven Jobs

WTX with

Command

Sever

Stand Alone Event-driven Processes

WTX with

Launcher

IBM WebSphere Application

Server

IBM WebSphere

ESB

IBM WebSphere

ProcessServer

IBM WebSphere

MessageBroker

IBM Workload Deployer

IBM WebSphereDataPower

IBM Sterling

B2B Integrator

WTX for

Application

Programming

WTX for

Integration

Servers

WTX for

Integration

Servers

WTX for

Integration

Servers

WTX for

Integration

Servers Embedded

WTX with Launcher

Hypervisor Edition

IBM Lotus Forms

WTX

Design

Studio

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2. Business challenges

3. Key capabilities

4. Deployment options

5. Summary

6. Resources

Course Progress

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Summary

Summary / key messages

– WTX is IBM’s strategic Universal Transformation solution

• Provides flexible, code-free transformation capability for any environment

– Continuation of this strategy: Cross-product integration of strategic IBM products

• Sterling B2B Integrator = high reusability of assets

• Hypervisor Edition = Transformation capability in privates clouds

– Access to industry standards

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1. Product definition

2. Business challenges

3. Key capabilities

4. Deployment options

5. Summary

6. Resources

Course Progress

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Resources

For more information, see:

– Software Seller’s Workplace

http://w3-

103.ibm.com/software/xl/portal/content?synKey=O906004Z94515Q61#overview

– External announcements

http://www-

01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.jsp?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS211

-381/index.html&lang=en

– http://www-

01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.jsp?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/0/897/ENUS211

-390/index.html&lang=en

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Thank You!

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