IBM Software Group. IBM WebSphere Process Integration Technical Overview

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IBM Software Group

IBM WebSphere Process Integration

Technical Overview

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Business Flexibility Depends on IT Flexibility

“Today’s IT architectures, arcane as they may be,

are the

biggest roadblocks

most companies face

when making

strategic moves

.”

–McKinsey

“Flexible IT, Better Strategy

”

Flexible IT requires advanced

IT infrastructures, including

Process Integration

Software

from IBM.

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WebSphere for Process Integration

What’s new

IBM WebSphere

Business Modeler

IBM WebSphere

Integration Developer

IBM WebSphere

Process Server

IBM WebSphere

Business Monitor

Process Integration which changes the competitive landscape

WebSphere for Process Integration

Best In Class Business Modeling and Simulation

Simplified Integration – Easy To Learn And Use

Revolutionizes Business Flexibility

Broadest Reaching Integration

Real Time Visibility into Business Performance

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IBM’s WebSphere Integration Reference Architecture

A comprehensive, modular integration middleware platform providing the

development and operating environments for SOA-based solutions

IT Services Management Business Application Services Process Services Information Services Development Services Interaction Services Partner Services Connectivity Services

Business Innovation and Optimization Services

Application and Information Assets

What’s new

IBM WebSphere

Business Modeler

IBM WebSphere

Integration Developer

IBM WebSphere

Process Server

IBM WebSphere

Business Monitor

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Model

Deploy

Monitor

Analyze

Act

Capture, simulate, analyze, and optimize business models to reduce risk and increase flexibility

Direct deployment of models and policies to realize business intent

Correlate metrics and alerts in real-time from internal and external sources to gain visibility into the business performance

Gaining insight into business metrics and information for contextual based decision making

Respond at the right time to insights through collaboration, optimization, and automation to excel

The power of IBM’s methodology is derived from each activity performed individually …

… and in combination to enable continuous improvement and innovation

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IBM WebSphere Business Modeler

Simple to use business modeling tool

Allow the people who know the business to model the

business

Attach resource, roles and costs to each activity

Sophisticated simulation and analysis

Understand your business models and make informed

decisions before deployment

Compare simulations against historical actuals

Collaborative modeling

Enable communication and participation across your

enterprise via web based collaboration

Clean hand-off to I/T

Rapid and accurate deployment of your solutions

Business modeling is the starting point for I/T

deployment

IBM WebSphere Business Modeler

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Model

Monitor

Analyze

Act

Gaining insight into business metrics and information for contextual based decision making

The power of IBM’s methodology is derived from each activity performed individually …

… and in combination to enable continuous improvement and innovation

IBM Business Innovation and Optimization Methodology

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WebSphere Process Server

Based on WebSphere Application Server

Clustering, failover, high availability and robust platform

Single administration environment

Common Event Infrastructure – Process Management

Service Oriented Architecture platform

A uniform invocation programming model (SCA)

A uniform data representation model (Business Objects)

Powerful tools to build and reuse standard components

Powerful Staff Components

Participating / Originating / Ad-Hoc Tasks

Multi-level escalation

Client components out-of-the box (JSF)

Business Processes

WS-BPEL standard

Business State Machines, Business Rules &

Transformations

Advanced services to build integration solutions

A single Process Integration platform

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WebSphere Integration Developer

Reduce cost of skills

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Default = Little to no Java

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Roles / progressive disclosure

Accelerate skills

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Doc restructure into tutorials

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Out of Box Experience

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Samples / extended samples

Reduce time-to-deployment

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Business Objects, Relationships

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Wiring / components

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End-to-end test framework

Simplify the authoring metaphor

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Interface / Data transformation

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Business Rules

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State Machines

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Business Events

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WebSphere Process Server – Components

Process Services

Human

Tasks

Human

Tasks

Business

State

Machines

Business

State

Machines

Business

Rules

Business

Rules

Business

Processes

Business

Processes

Service

Components

WebSphere Application Server, Version 6

Supporting

Services

Interface

Maps

Business

Object Maps

Relationships

Selectors

SOA Core

Service Component

Architecture

Business

Objects

Common Event

Infrastructure

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The Common Invocation Model: Service Components

Component

Uniform

Representation of

Encapsulated

Implementation

Interface:

How to call this component

Reference:

What this components calls Java Interface WSDL Port Type Java Interface WSDL Port Type Business Process Business State Machine Business Rule Human Task Interface

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Module: Order

Assembling Components into Modules

Encapsulate Functionality into Modules for Reuse

Components may be wired together

Business Objects are the data flowing on wires between Components

Business Rule: Customer Status Human Task: Approve Order Process: doOrder Import: Credit Check Export: doOrder

Web

BO BO BO BO BO BO Other Applications and Modules Other Applications and Modules Interface Reference Component

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Component Assembly Development

Import Reference Export Module Interface

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Component Test/Debug – Integration Test Client

Launch Integration Test Client

Select Module, Operation

Enter Input Data &

Launch Operation

Examine, Event Trace & Output

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Model

Act

The power of IBM’s methodology is derived from each activity performed individually …

… and in combination to enable continuous improvement and innovation

IBM Business Innovation and Optimization Methodology

Deploy

Monitor

Gaining insight into business metrics and

information for contextual based decision making

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WebSphere Business Monitor V6 Themes

Business monitoring

Manage responses to business situations

Business Dashboards

Monitor more environments

Open event infrastructure

Focus on performance and throughput

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Real Time Business Performance Visibility

View your business real time

See how your business is performing

before issues arise

Monitor the pieces of your business

that matter in terms you understand

View business measures and key

performance indicators specific to your

business processes

Make proactive changes on the fly

Respond quicker

Ability to intervene and change the

course of your business based on events

and trends as they emerge

Adaptive action manager

Business Innovation and Optimization

Improve your business through insight

WebSphere Business Monitor – your

first step in true business performance

management

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Business monitoring goals

Report on business performance

measured against targets (scorecard)

Share growth and new product revenue

Track business process flow

Status of particular insurance claim

Bottlenecks due to human tasks

Monitor business process metrics

Duration, cost, branch ratios

Business Analysis through

aggregation and multidimensional

reporting

Total monthly revenue by customer

Detect and alert of anomalous

situations

Gold customer order with no inventory and supplier decommitted

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WebSphere Business Monitor Conceptual View

IT Observation

Supporting Infrastructure

WebSphere Process Server, CEI, Event Store

Business Observation

Metadata Flow

Transformation

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WebSphere Process Server and the ESB

Data Format: XML, CSV, Cobol Copybook, Custom, …

Transport: WebSphere MQ, JMS, SCADA, HTTP, …

API: JMS, MQI

Clients: Any WMQ / JMS Application

Data Format: XML

Transport: WebSphere messaging resources

API: JMS (Destinations, Topics)

Clients: J2EE Applications

Message Flow WMQ based Application Mainframe Application Content based Pub/Sub WBI Adapter J2C Adapter SCA Imports / Exports J2EE Applications (JMS)

WebSphere ESB

WebSphere MQ

MQ Lin k

WebSphere

Message

Broker

J2EE Applications (WMQ) JMS Client

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Increase in scalability, protocols, data transformations, and message processing -- much more extensive than the competition.

ESB Advanced: Extreme integration and performance. Universal connectivity, any to any

transformation, and high-end scalability -- complementing the ESB core.

Core and Advanced ESB Products

1. Protocol switching: SOAP, JMS, MQ, Adapters 2. Payload transformation: XML

3. Messaging processing: XSLT Mapping, Message Logger, Table Driven Filter, CEI Emitter, Fault, Stop, Property Setter, Custom (Java only)

1. Protocol switching: SOAP, JMS, MQ, Adapters, Files, Telemetry (SCADA), Mobile (MQe), Real Time, Multicast, RV

2. Payload transformation: XML, SWIFT, HL7, HIPAA, EDI-X.12, EDIFact, FIX, ACORD / AL3, TLOG, C structures, COBOL copybook, CICS, VSAM, DB2, IMS, MIME, Base64 (DSTX), GZIP/ZLIB (DSTX), TAR (DSTX)

3. Messaging processing: Compute, extract, reset content descriptors, XML transform, mapping, check, route to label, label, throw, try catch, flow order, filter, trace, complex event processing, aggregate request, aggregate reply, aggregate control, database, data insert, data delete, data update, warehouse, CICS program call, VSAM file access, custom, C++, Java

WebSphere

ESB

ESB Core: Web services connectivity and service oriented integration.

WebSphere Message

Broker

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Connecting to Enterprise Applications

WebSphere Business Integration Adapters

Consist of a collection of software, Application Programming Interfaces, and tools to enable

applications to exchange business data through IBM’s Enterprise Service Bus

Each business application requires its own application-specific adapter to participate in the

business integration process

WebSphere for Process Integration continues to support the portfolio of existing

WebSphere Business Integration Adapters

Allows for leverage of customer and business partner investments in the Adapter Framework

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Providing the Way for B2B Gateway Consolidation

Ensure consistent security and service-levels applied to all external interactions

Customers Distributors Warehouses Customers Suppliers Distributors Warehouses OEMs

VAN EDI

Internet

Private

Enterprise

_WPG

• Management

• Transport

• Packaging

• Documents

• Routing

+ Integration

One View

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IBM’s WebSphere Integration Reference Architecture

A comprehensive, modular integration middleware platform providing the

development and operating environments for SOA-based solutions

IT Services Management Business Application Services Process Services Information Services Development Services Interaction Services Partner Services Connectivity Services

IBM Software Group. IBM WebSphere Process Integration Technical Overview