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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

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Westernacher Mediator is the result of many years of experience
collected during numerous large integration projects. It provides
an efficient SOA which meets the practical requirements.

  • Quick and flexible design,
    modification and evaluation of
    distributed business processes
  • Transparent, comprehensible
    navigationthrough all views
    and relationships of the system
    integration
  • Protection of existing
    investments through the
    combination of common
    base products
  • UN/EDIFACT and SAP
    Connectivity "on board"
  • Synchronous and asynchronous
    message processing
  • Encapsulation of the technical
    integration level, resulting in
    reduced complexity for the user
  • Self-documentation through
    repository-based configuration
  • Service-oriented monitoring,
    accounting and error
    management based on the
    collected statistics data
    from the repository
  • Traceability of all configuration
    changes and consistent
    versioning
  • Fine-grained authorization and
    security concepts
  • Deployment of configuration
    changes at runtime
  • Adaptive load response and
    prioritization
  • Platform-independence through
    Java and Web GUI, support for
    all JDBC-enabled databases
    and JMS-enabled message-
    oriented middleware (MOM)

Westernacher Business
Management Consulting AG
Münchäckerweg 1
D-69168 Wiesloch
Telefon: +49 (6222)922 10

mediator@westernacher.com



 
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