Westernacher

Business Integration with Mediator

OPTIMIZING DISTRIBUTED PROCESSES

Distributed business processes require applications which transcend company borders to exchange data and use one another’s services. These processes can be more easily implemented and aligned if a service and connection catalog enables the process-centered control of technical system integration scenarios at an abstract level.

The need for automated system integration based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a result of the following factors:

• Reusability of solutions
• High level of system adaptability
• Cost efficiency
• Creation of transparent structures
• Integration of isolated sources of information

REQUIREMENTS

• Structured modeling and simple linking of business processes in IT
• "Governance" of complex and expanding IT and system integration scenarios
• Simple, rapid maintainability of the integration solution
• Appropriate level of complexity instead of technical "Overkill"
• High-performance, robust and secure operation
• Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Performance and scalability
• Flexibility in choice of transmission media and message formats,
  as well as simple formulation of transformation rules
• Managerial and technical monitoring of business processes
• Consideration for all stakeholders (management,specialist departments,
• IT development team, integration partners, IT operations, QA)
• Publication of the services on the intranet / Internet

Westernacher Mediator - Overview

• Westernacher Mediator is a service broker that enables you to implement completely
  new forms of process and system integration.
• Communication takes place via service requests. Service definitions and integration scenarios are stored in the central repository. This repository contains all the meta data which the service broker needs for message transmission and transformation and for dealing with the different media types.
• Westernacher Mediator uses XSL, Java and XQuery conver-sion technologies to cover a wide range of applications. UN/EDIFACT processing and connectivity to SAP are integral Mediator features, and no additional programming is required to convert EDIFACT to SOAP and vice versa.
• Other message processing functions include schema validation, filtering and an authorization concept. All sensible combinations of message format and transmission media are permitted.
• Processes can be carried out synchronously or asynchronously and in accordance with the predefined integration scenarios. As well as the "Push" scenario, Westernacher Mediator also includes a "Request / Reply" that enables e.g. the simple integration of Internet marketplaces.
• The integrated "Publish / Subscribe" feature provides a simple way to create items such as master data centrally and to distribute them to a number of recipients.
• Westernacher Mediator enables individual departments to align their business scenarios efficiently to the company’s strategies and to tailor them to market requirements. The IT development team is able to implement the departments’ specifications quickly and economically.
• IT operations benefit from a stable, scalable and high-performance SOA platform, while consistent standardization keeps the complexity of the integration layer to the bare minimum.

For more information about Business Integration & Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA):
Business Integration & SOA