Rufus soa reference architecture

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Goal

The aim of Something Oriented Architecture (SOA) would be to accomplish reusable resources within an agile method that's aimed using the company requirements of the business.

The SOA Reference Structure offers recommendations to make implementation and new choices. To that particular finish it acts like a formula for analyzing or making an answer structure for various teams inside the business. As highlighted from the various levels of an SOA additionally it offers understanding and designs for adding the various aspects of an SOA.

An SOA Reference Structure was created to answer a few of the crucial concerns and problems experienced while creating an answer such as for example:

What're an SOA as' facets indicated in conditions e levels that require when creating options centered on SOA concepts to become regarded?
What're the inspiration had a need to contain in each coating of the answer?
What're a few of the crucial new choices that require when creating an an answer that's centered on SOA to become created?
Which functions in a task might take advantage of utilizing recommendations and these concepts?

To answer these concerns this record offers the following:

Determines group and a typical language of meanings for SOA and providers.
Recognizes an SOA implementation's different capabilities and determine their relationships with capabilities away from range of the Rufus structure with each other.
Offers SOA principles.
Identifies constant execution and style across providers.
Exhibits when and where you can utilize SOA systems.
Supports SOA governance.
Has an executive design strategy that is centered.

Summary

This report provides the divorce of issues had a need to style or assess an SOA architecture, style and new choices, blocks, designs, choices and also the levels.

The structure is includes numerous elements that are divided in to the next groups:

Quality of Support (QoS)
Protection
Customer
Business Process
Incorporation
Providers
Info
Structure
Government
Tracking & Administration
Middle of Quality (COE)
Design Time Components

Component View

Design Time Components

Style-Time Routines would be recommendations, the specialized actions, and deliverables that permit daily development. Including:

Support Modeling and Style
Canonical Data Modeling
Policy Specification
Support Construction
Company Assessment
Support Id
Service Lifecycle Management

Service Modeling

Providers should be made and made to help an extensible plug-and-play design by being:

Reusable - that additional Providers influence a current Support.
Composable - that additional Providers can be leveraged by Something.
Interoperable - to ensure that Providers could work with one another.
Discoverable - to aid area independence.

Make it possible for the above mentioned characteristics, each Support (aside from Information and Power Providers) will need:

A well defined Service Agreement - make it possible for pair that was free by covering low level execution specifics from Support Customers. SOAP-based this is achieved by Web-Services by indicating a WSDL program with XML-based file change. Peaceful Web Solutions determine an agreement with HTTP input guidelines and JSON/XML- .
Coarse grained - to ensure that procedures have sufficient information to carry all duties in a method out.
Stateless procedures - Statelessness (i.e., not sustaining condition between invocations) allows Something to become recycled in several contexts.
If you will find issues undertaking a surgical procedure a method to manage Conditions to inform its owner.

To make sure that each kind of Shared Support was created and applied in a standard method, a SOA Government group must produce SOA Guidelines files for: Support Style, Web-Service Style, and XML Concept Style in Custom's Instructions (i.e., operating contracts). Subjects might include:

Service Specification and Style
Software (including Canonical Information design for communications - view section 3.5.2)
Guidelines (see section 3.5.3)
SLAs (Company - Level Agreements)
An outline of exactly what the Support does
An outline of the procedures of the Support.
Guidelines for every kind of Shared Support (Company, Typical, Information, Incorporation, and Power).
Illustrations displaying the distinction between Support- Object Oriented Design and Oriented Design.
Just how to create a SOAP Web-Service (and handle Conditions).
Just how to create a peaceful Web-Service (and handle Conditions).

Canonical Data Modeling (XML)

Several businesses have custom improvements which have developed independently of just one another and many independent packed. Often, each program has turned into a program using language, tradition, procedures, company guidelines, and its own execution strategy. Several businesses encounter of utilizing the company information allow programs to speak in a systems environment the issue.

Businesses style Canonical Data Types (CDM) to assist evaluate the concept trade inside the business with their trading partners. Information is inserted within any organization's fundamental structure. To build up the CDM, a business chart the language into basic business ideas and should stock enterprise concepts. For adding the disparate conditions for every profession the CDM supplies a construction. The CDM is just a list of natural conditions described within an XML Schema, including:

Organizations available site (e.g., Purchase, Client, etc.)
Agreed upon information components - to ensure that a website component includes a solitary, typical description.
Formatting guidelines.

A CDM identifies a businessis information in-motion - the XML messages exchanged between:

Solutions inside an organization.
A business and its own external partners. Several sectors have a business standard (e.g., ACORD, for Insurance, or EDRM for e-Finding) to determine primary ideas and determine information exchanged between businesses.

A Canonical Data Design offers the following advantages:

Information can be quickly exchanged by a company using its business associates.
To trading information across all providers the business an enterprise may follow just one approach.
The canonical design helps determine the software for every Support (hence covering the framework of the actual information within the repository).
When an business idea occurs modifications towards the canonical information design are needed only.

Policy Specification

Guidelines supply support-degree metadata to Web-Services customers. Indicating these guidelines is definitely an essential part of Web-Service style, by hanging plan words towards the WSDL which is achieved. Particularly, these guidelines include:

Security:
Transfer Process
Formula (RSA, etc.).
Communications
Certification/Agreement
Degree of Support (e.g., Magic, Gold, Jewelry, etc.). For instance, a Jewelry client's demands perform on best-provisioned host for greater efficiency (but additionally in a greater cost).
Efficiency - for instance, deliver notices if efficiency to get a specific support falls below the SLA that is guaranteed.
Auditing - for instance, start auditing whenever a specific service customer creates a surgical procedure on the Support.

Support Assembly

A Company Expert first grows a Company Process Plan (using BPMN - Business Process Modeling Notation) to design a business procedure in a company/needs stage. Subsequently, developers and builders produce a runtime design in possibly BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) or JBI (Java Business Incorporation) to:

Construct current Shared Solutions right into a Business-Process
Allow / or and a BPMS solution may operate the company process.

Developers use MEPs (Concept-Trade Designs) to design the runtime qualities of the business process. Common MEPs include:

Pipes and Filters
Information-based Modem
Recipient List
Wire Tap
Powerful Modem

These designs are getting in several of the ESB and recognition and executable MEP versions are supported by BPMS products. Please see-the following for more information:

Enterprise Integration Patterns Website
Enterprise Integration Patterns, Gregor Hohpe ETAL.

Company Testing

Many Shared Companies is likely to be applied as Web-Services, which is very important to have a Check-Driven Development (TDD) method of Web-Services improvement since:

Builders and developers require feedback that is early about every Web Service's style, performance, simplicity, and efficiency.
QA employees have to not be unable to check Web-Services.
General quality is essential since numerous customers could us each Web-Service.

Company Screening involves:

Checking Webservices:

Certification - Generating HTML documentation on the internet Service software.
Debugging - Display SOAP/HTTP requests which are delivered & obtained within the cable.

Invoking Web Services:

Producing Webservices requests to create the Net Support.
Replicating/Mocking Web-Services
Generating Unit Assessments on the basis of the Web-Service software.
Practical/Performance Testing Web-Services
Replicating load problems.
Reporting under load conditions on performance.

Industrial products include:

Eviware soapUI Expert
iTKO LISA

Open-Source products include:

Eviware soapUI Community Edition
WebInject
PushToTest TestMaker

Factors to Consider (for Analysis)

Does the merchandise help peaceful Web-Services and both SOAP? How?
Does the merchandise enable SOAP/HTTP communications to be viewed by you within the cable?
Does the merchandise possess a /functional Website UI that is great to create it simple to check?
May a QA/Specialist make use of the item without creator treatment?
What degree of SOAP and HTTP does the merchandise assistance?
Does the merchandise help an Agile/TDD strategy with Mocking and Product Assessments?
Does the merchandise produce Ongoing Integration to be supported by Device Assessments?
May the merchandise statement on efficiency/scalability and imitate load problems?
Just how much setup is concerned?
How can the certification function?

Service Identification

Support Id is among the crucial actions in creating Something-Focused answer since it identifies and recognizes high level Business Solutions using the following a subsequent methods:

Top-Down:

Design business and evaluate functions.
Style fresh Providers that allow actions and the duties available functions.

Bottom-Up:

Support-allow programs methods and current.
Produce business functions in the Providers.

Center Out:

Design business and evaluate functions.
List services and current programs.

Decide which may be Support-enabled.
Create Support Plugs.

Actions and chart duties in the company procedures to current Providers.
Generate fresh Providers to complete the spaces.

A Middle-out strategy is suggest since it requires the very best areas of another methods:

The underside-up strategy creates silos thatnot arrange using the company.
The most effective-down strategy requires a very long time, and also the business cannot watch for every business-process to become described to be able to start developing and creating Providers.
A bargain strategy considers the requirement for timeliness, but also instills enough control to create Company Solutions that complement using the objectives and goals in the Company Structure by:
Going for a first-cut in the Company Solutions from conferences and Advertising supplies using the com along with other company stakeholders.
Beginning with just a few Business Functions.
Operating toward a skinny/straight piece of performance on the basis of the company functions.

Service Lifecycle Management

Support implementations are software like software or every additional software component. As a result, each goes via a lifecycle that is related. The support lifecycle is portrayed within the following plan.

Support Id is started with by the lifecycle. Providers are section of business functions that are more common. As a result, the style of a business process usually identifies new providers. This isn't the path that is only that new providers are recognized nevertheless. Occasionally providers are recognized as section of collection management. This requires examining what's needed to get a support over the enterprise's width. The amount of evaluation necessary for this kind of id is challenging to measure and so CIBER doesn't suggest utilizing profile administration for support finding at the moment.

It uses an iterative improvement process once something continues to be recognized. Iterative procedures make use of the feedback from following stages to create modifications in prior stages centered on conditions that might appear or training learned. Providers are section of a distributed program that is larger nevertheless and any modifications created might have a direct effect on improvement initiatives that are additional. It is therefore very important to keep in mind the result change might have actually during growth of the support.

Style stage and the Company Specification creates at least the specification for that support software. This software specification contains information and the semantics the support helps. This presents the agreement between its own customers and the support. As modifications towards the software possess the best effect to following stages homework ought to be put on the look of the software. Modifications towards the service software make a difference check ideas which have been applied to check the service, in addition to both customers which may be created in parallel, execution of the service. This doesn't mean once it's created that something software should never be transformed. Styles are imperfect as well as in the IT atmosphere of today's it's impossible to take some time necessary to create an interface description that's perfect. It is therefore wise to place procedures in position that consider that support interfaces might change. Consider the software might change towards the degree feasible to reduce the effect of this change when applying something. This pertains to customers of the service's implementers. In some instances, customers might want to wait prior to starting their execution before support continues to be through some quantity of models of screening. This enables for many expertise to become created with utilizing the support therefore (ideally) reducing the chance of change towards the software.

It continues towards the Support Execution stage when the support continues to be created. Within this stage the support is likely to be created based on new requirements produced by the college OIT team. Any problems experienced attempting to apply the look of the support ought to be given back again to the custom if required to be able to improve the look.

Lastly, before being used into manufacturing use support have to be examined. Screening of providers entails four main regions of emphasis:

Protection screening is important to gauge the threat of something regarding information reliability and weakness, data-privacy. Assessments have to be created to check boundary problems which could gauge the robustness of the support handling inputs away from selection of beliefs that are expected. Assessments also needs to be produced not surprisingly on the basis of the functions as described inside the program that guarantee the support works.

Kind of Screening

Information

Useful

This section of screening centers around ensuring its purpose is performed by the assistance based on the company process' requirement it help. Automatic testsuites ought to be created to do regression testing to rapidly confirm performance throughout the life-cycle modifications that could happen.

Performance

This section of screening centers around efficiency traits of the service including dimension of time for you to execute the load and service testing of the support. The result out of this kind of screening types of focusing on how to manage and release the support in a manufacturing environment the foundation.

Interoperability

This section of screening guarantees the support sticks to its support specification. Early recognition of problems that are interoperability is crucial to incorporation of the support through contact with customers and college partners. This kind of screening is particularly crucial once the support interacts with /or methods and numerous information resources.

Security

Regression

One of testing associated with using services' more essential kinds is regression testing. The programs that depend to that particular service on confirmed support, the effect a big change might have about the atmosphere. As a result, when modifications are created to providers, regression testing should be performed to make sure that the support not just facilitates fresh or updated capabilities but all where the support depends other capabilities.

Table 1 Company Testing Types

It's used into manufacturing use when the support is prepared. At this time the support enters the preservation cycle in the place of the growth period. Change is often required by companies in production. The change might be as a result of deficiency within perhaps a demand or the program to include more performance towards the support. It's very important to know how this change ought to be managed centered on its character.

Flaws that do not alter the conduct of the support and are a direct result a problem within the fundamental execution of the support might be managed with a Problem Remediation procedure. In this instance it's appealing to use a repair as rapidly as you can towards the current support as numerous college procedures might be influencing and creating a trouble towards the colleges capability to execute its purpose.

Modifications that alter the conduct of a current service or its software are best managed by determining perhaps a distinct edition of the support or a service. Within this situation variations are actually new providers which are individual in the unique. Impact is minimized by getting this path on customers utilizing the support that is unique but may cause an expansion of providers inside the business. This might not necessarily be appealing nevertheless plus some work ought to be put in determining problems under which a current support in manufacturing might be altered (for example, just one business-consumer is influenced and also the change is well-understood). To ensure that everybody knows the problems this will be recorded and make sure that modifications are managed in a method that was regular.

Support Withdrawal may be the lifecycle's ultimate action. Fundamentally services will begin ballooning (particularly when changing manufacturing services results in the development of new providers) plus some services may quit getting used. Eliminating support could be difficult like numerous business-process possessed by various schools and divisions may be supported by a support. A process must be used organized and to determine withdrawal of providers in the program. This type of process might begin with deprecating the support (having a notice detailing why plus some recommendation regarding another support to displace it). Subsequently, providers could be watched to be used and also the customers recognized. Lastly, when the support continues to be getting used the customers ought to be approached to go over an answer. This will lead to creating a routine for that customers so the support might be removed to change to another support.

Customers of the support that is deprecated might not have motivation to alter. Modifications that are producing involves perhaps and work some danger towards the customer. When seeking cooperation from customers to change to another support this must be acknowledged. In this instance it'll not be unnecessary to be in-coming up having a typical knowledge of the advantage of changing to some newer support innovative, therefore the deprecated you can be removed.

Middle of Excellence (COE)

An internet community

Provide the SOA Perspective.
Talk SOA guidelines.
Acquire feedback on the best way to adjust general SOA plan and the SOA Government procedure.
Supply assistance guidance for continuing and brand new SOA implementations.
Supply SOA Assets:

Publications
The Web Sites
Business Requirements

Quality of Service

Signing

Many programs and methods utilize some type of signing that shops communications to some continual method (DBMS, document, etc.). Signing offers the following advantages:

Troubleshooting - program employees make use of this info to correct the issue, and Programs record mistakes upon disappointment.
Researching - Program employees analyze record messages to check on for issues.
Auditing - Protection employees may evaluate record messages to determine what steps a person done within the program.
Debugging - Builders produce their applications to be debugged by record messages.

Identity Management

Identity Management may be the capability to determine a requestoris (individual or program) correct identification and associations between individuals and businesses (teams). Degree of administration and the present guidelines are required to carry on into Managed-Services by utilizing Microsoftis Active Service whilst the supply for identity management.

Privacy

Privacy guarantees that during transportation of the information it had been unapproachable or seen apart from by approved readers.

There presently is Wise Grid necessity or no Wise Power to safe communications for Discretion.

Certification

Certification can also be completed within Microsoftis Active Service and provides the confirmed identification and agreement guidelines.

Agreement

Agreement happens to be completed in the application-level. Within Managed Services (phase MS3) agreement is likely to be done to find out if the requestor (individual, software, service) is approved to gain access to the required service, information as well as the Managed Data Archive.

Ethics / non repudiation

Ethics demands that during even as read from the sender and transportation there have been no unauthorized adjustments of the message's content.

Non repudiation guarantees the delivering support that the intended concept has been obtained by the getting support. Present Wise Power and Wise Grid estimated requirements don't need concept Ethics, however for delicate communications (period, discretion, occasion, or concern) there's non repudiation.

Customers

Support individuals are the solutions supplied by an enterprise's conclusion customer/person. The customer has got the versatility show and to procedure related and helpful data supplied by Providers. Support Customers entry Providers via a constant software (or agreement) uncovered by that Support. Support Customers could be:

User Interfaces
B2B Programs
Business Functions

User Interaction

Business providers can be accessed by customers through number of systems, including the web sites, Websites, or PDAs. a web-based is provided by a web site software allow customers to do everyday, work-related duties. A site influence the providers produced do not include any business reason themselves, and provided the business, like a section of SOA implementation. The website easily combines with back end providers (using SOAP/WSDL, RELAXATION/JSON) and business functions. Worldwide protection guidelines can secure the website, but additionally may include part based certification that limits use of just related info which makes it simpler to handle.

A Website is just a site that allows customers to gain access to solutions and extremely individualized data. It may boost usefulness and the efficiency of workers inside an organization via a combined view of info and accessible solutions. Often the website is extremely fun, permitting the consumer to operate a broad number of capabilities and tools such as for instance, worldwide research inquiries, and custom dash and sophisticated business intelligence resources. Sites supply typical look and give a single entry-point towards the business and feel all over programs. Sites sort the leading stop for custom applications and business procedures produced as applications. The website may also be employed to "mash up" providers or additional programs from third party websites. Wikis RSS feeds, and information all may be provided inside the website.

Mobile customers are enabled by a PDA to gain access to business solutions. Like sites and websites, a PDA doesn't have business-logic of its, however it enables the conclusion consumer to connect to back-end by easily opening the Net Solutions uncovered by an organization providers. Nevertheless, performance and a PDAis software is a lot less boundless than that of the site due to storage and show restrictions.

Applications

A business and outside business associates for example clients and providers usually collaborate to attain its business goals. An outside companionis B2B software (e.g., a site or website) may produce a Web-Service uncovered by a business, which completes business performance with respect to the customer.

Business Processes

A Company Process streamlines and codifies methods, the guidelines, and company s actions within an organization. Company experts produce Business Process Images utilizing the industry standard Enterprise Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) to record some coordinated duties and actions that result in an organizational objective. You are able to think about a company procedure like a visual illustration of the Use-Case (RUP) or Person Epic (Agile / Scrum) for the reason that it exhibits regular and alternative moves along side conditions encountered during running. In SOA, a company method coordinates the company solutions (see section 3.2.1) produced by an organization. Builders and sOA designers obtain enterprise solutions in a company process plan in the duties and choice factors.

Business-logic can be used to create company moves as consecutive jobs or similar duties centered on guidelines, company guidelines, along with other company needs.

Types of Business Functions include:

Investing in a solution
Time Accessibility / Acceptance
Payment
Service Provisioning

For info on resources and items, please the Workflow / Orchestration area (3.4.5).

Collaboration Solutions

Presentation Services

Speech Providers determine a typical group of providers to handle conversation with customers or trading spouses (towards the degree this next conversation will become necessary). Demonstration providers are supplied by: software servers that offer the ability to rapidly produce the leading end-of enterprise procedures, website servers, and internet servers and composite programs to react to modifications in person requirements through stations, sites, wealthy customers, along with other systems. Demonstration services combine with additional fundamental providers, for example protection (e.g., simple signal-on).

BI / Reporting

BI (Business Intelligence) / Reporting supplies a high level view of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to business stakeholders allow them to create choices and handle the company. Types of KPIs include:

Effectiveness of business operations.
Job Costing.
New clients obtained.
Revenue info by demographic (era, race, geographical area, etc.).
Spin / return of balances by demographic.

A bi-product employs the info saved in A-Data Warehouse to provide the person with it. A BI device (including Business Items) employs Essential Performance Indicators (KPIs - e.g., revenue conversion price, in force plans, industry penetration, for instance) to record on information, determine developments, execute data evaluation, etc. make it possible for enterprise customers to create choices and run the company as effectively as you can while evolving a company method.

Business agility and reduces timeframes improves for decision making. It offers the capability to determine and assume possibilities displayed by apparently unrelated activities to businesses. It's a vital enabler of tactical and proper decision-making.

Industrial products include:

IBM COGNOS
MicroStrategy

Open-Source products include:

Pentaho BI Collection
JasperSoft Business Intelligence
Eclipse BIRT

Business Process

Business Process Management System (BPMS)

A Company Process Management Program (or Collection) often contains the next:

A company process modeler that facilitates the BPMN notation.
IDE support for Support Construction that facilitates the BPEL standard. This will combine with Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ, and MS Visual Studio (amongst others).
A runtime for service orchestration that helps BPEL or JBI (please see-the Support Construction area - 3.5.4).
Something for Business Activity Monitoring (BAM - begin to see the BAM section 3.4.6).

Industrial BPMS products contain (but aren't restricted to):

Oracle BPM
IBM Business Process Management
TIBCO iProcess
Cordys Procedure Manufacturer
Open Source BPMS products contain (but aren't restricted to):
Intalio|BPP
JBoss jBPM
wfMOpen
ObjectWeb Bonita
OSWorkflow
ProcessMaker BPM Collection

Factors to Consider (for Analysis)

Any kind of BPMS items that are not attempting to do everything (e.g., UI) and easily fit in like a Support within an SOA?
Where within the numerous workflows might we have to make use of a BPMS item?
May a BPMS item do prioritization of procedures? Exactly what does the Company need?
May a BPMS item manage powerful workflows? Exactly what does the Company need?
Do we require an individual BPMS item or do we just require an ESB because so many ESBs offer workflow abilities?
Because BPMS products declare to supply orchestration, do we do we just require a BPMS item or require a distinct ESB?
Does the BPMS solution assistance Company Activity Monitoring (BAM)? Or even, can there be another BAM item that people can use like a front end?
Could you produce the BPMS item having a Web-Service (SOAP/XML) phone?
May the BPMS item produce our Shared Providers having a Web-Service (SOAP/XML) phone?
What variations of SOAP, WSDL WS-I Basic Account, and WS-Protection does the BPMS solution assistance?
What additional WS-* requirements does the BPMS solution assistance?
Message platforms and what additional transportation methods can be found using the BPMS item?
What types of plugs (HTTP, FTP, etc.) can be found using the BPMS item?
What type of protection does the BPMS solution assistance?
Scalable may be the BPMS item?
Does the BPMS item have Federation abilities, Load-Balancing, and Fault-Tolerance?
What is the runtime setting (JavaEE,.Net, etc.) for that BPMS item?
Which kind of administration / tracking can be obtained for that BPMS item?
Does the BPMS item have its stuck Support Registry?
The does the Registry assistance UDDI in that case?
Might the BPMS item and an exterior Support Registry combine?
Does an activity mailbox UI is supplied by the BPMS solution?
Does the BPMS solution help replicating or screening workflows?

Business Rules Management System (BRMS)

A Company Rules Motor factory is just an application program that completes more or one company guidelines in a manufacturing environment. Such guidelines may originate from organization guidelines, authorized legislation or other resources.

Other software code changes not more often than company rules. Guidelines motors are pluggable application elements that perform business guidelines which are externalized from software code. This enables the guidelines to be modified by enterprise customers without designer treatment.

Business Activity Management (BAM)

A Company Exercise may possibly be considered a business-process that's orchestrated by Business Process Management (BPM) software or perhaps a business-process that's a number of actions comprising programs and numerous methods. BAM is definitely an organization option mainly meant to give a real time overview of company actions to top management and functions supervisors.

Among the most noticeable functions of BAM options may be the demonstration of info on dashboards which contain crucial performance indicators (KPIs) used-to supply guarantee and presence of exercise and efficiency. Business and Specialized Procedures us these details to supply presence, dimension, and guarantee of business activities that were important. Event Relationship likewise exploits it to identify and alert of upcoming issues.

Though BAM systems often make use of a pc dash show to provide information, BAM is unique in the dashboards utilized by Business Intelligence (BI) in as far as occasions are prepared in real time and pressed towards the dash in BAM methods, while BI dashboards renew at fixed times by polling or querying databases. With respect to the refresh interval BAM dashboards differ widely or could be comparable.

Industrial items contain (but aren't restricted to):

Oracle Business Activity Tracking
TIBCO Business Activity Tracking

Open-Source items contain (but aren't restricted to):

Intalio|BAM
BizSensors' Gourangi
Mule Saturn
JBoss jBpmBAM

Please be aware the Open-Source BAM items mentioned previously continue to be within their childhood. For the time being, among the Open-Source bi-products (see section 3.4.12) for example Pentaho or JasperSoft can be a greater choice before Open-Source BAM industry develops. 2.6.3.1 Factors to Consider (for Analysis)

While analyzing company activity tracking solution options, concentrate on the functions that deliver show company indications and signals, the engine that creates the info and also the systems to gather company occasions - For specifics, please see 01ec032.netsolhost.com that is http:// /lit/BAM-selection_requirements.pdf.

Does the BAM remedy provide a visually intuitive dashboard that changes instantly and certainly will be individualized
Does the BAM remedy present shipping of signals in numerous platforms â?? email, immediate communication, image-holder, Short Message Company (SMS) or pager â?? with assistance of Extensible Markup Language (XML) format
Does the BAM remedy present consumer-managed selection and reporting of signals, and placing the range of what's watched
Could it be scalable?
Continual to keep framework across software restarts?
Does the BAM remedy provide a collection of analytic capabilities, for example fixed and powerful thresholds, complete ideals, length, chance, consistency, mathematical stability and price of change
Does the Company realize that this kind of performance can be obtained?
Does the Company actually need this kind of performance?
If this causes us to utilize a COTs item in the place of Open-Source, may be the Company prepared to purchase it (i.e., is that this a deal breaker)?

Complex Event Handling (CEP)

Government

SOA Government is approximately environment and applying guidelines and methods to manage the support lifecycle (see-the Support Lifecycle Management area -

SOA Governance involves:

Style-Period Government - Offers requirements and guidelines for Support Style (see-the Support Style Routines area - 3.5), Web-Service Style, and Canonical Data Modeling (see-the Canonical Data Modeling (XML) area - 3.5.2).
This contains Signal and Style Evaluations to find out if developers, architects, and builders are following requirements to make sure a standard style and execution across all Shared Services.
Runtime Government - Enforces procedures (see-the Plan Specification area - 3.5.3), Protection, QoS (Quality of Support), and SLAs (Service Level Agreements) at runtime. To get a listing of Service Supervisor and Support Registry items to aid SOA Government, please see-the Company Management (3.4.2) and Support Registry / Archive (3.4.1) areas.

Service Registry/Archive

Something Registry/Archive handles items and service points through the Service's total lifecycle, and it is used-to discover, submit, handle and (allow customers to) donate to providers. The Company Registry/Archive decouples providers and support customers.

The Support Archive/Registry is just an element that shops & handles metadata to get a support throughout its lifecycle. Stakeholders related data and preserve and may include support versions. The metadata allows acquire versions, and customers to find services to fulfill a specific need and connected data concerning these providers. Company Registry is just a runtime list of services meant to be properly used by customer solutions. Its abilities are published by the company towards the registry. To be able to utilize these abilities, support customers uncover join and support capabilities for them. Many Support Registries use UDDI (Common Description Breakthrough and Incorporation - an XML-centered standard) to identify the binding between something title and its own area.

Performance includes:

Registry companies
Used endpoints are released to UDDI registry
Assistance for third party registries
IDE checking and finding of providers
Runtime binding of providers
Asset-management
Keeping WSDL, support meanings, schemas, etc.
General-purpose target archive

Industrial products include:

Oracle AquaLogic Registry/Archive
IBM WebSphere Host
horsepower Systinet Registry/Archive
TIBCO ActiveMatrix Registry
Microsoft UDDI Providers

Open-Source products include:

jUDDI
OpenUDDI
MuleSource Universe
WS02 Registry

Factors to Consider (for Analysis)

Does the Support Registry / Archive possess a web based administration system? How safe may be the system?
How simple is it to un and Join Up -Enroll Something?
Does UDDI is supported by the Support Registry / Archive? In that case, which edition(s)?
What additional research methods does the Assistance Registry / Archive assistance? What edition(s)?
Whatever the Support Registry / Archive selected, what are the Open-Source APIs (etc. UDD4J, etc.) that may ensure it is simpler to keep in touch with the Support Registry / Archiveis conversation methods (e.g., UDDI, Atom, etc.)?
Does the Registry / Archive use peaceful Web-Services?
May the Support Registry / Archive and additional Support Registry / Archive items combine?
Fast may be the research? Does it turn into a performance bottleneck?
Scalable may be the Support Registry / Archive?
Does the Support Registry / Archive have Federation abilities, Load-Balancing, and Fault-Tolerance?
Does the Support Registry assistance workflow for change acceptance?

Service Management

This function obtains and handles programs, the providers and assets. Governance is enforced by iT.

Offers awareness in to sluggish of declining providers, tracking company procedures and the structure. Frequently, this element is built-into a network-management program supplying providers in the event of failures with notices.

These include:

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM - view section 3.4.6)
Support Network Monitoring
Support Fault Tracking

There is definitely something Director an integrated section of runtime SOA Government. It's accountable for SLA tracking and administration in addition to support monitoring. There is just something Director a tracking help that reviews on all of the providers used within the business. Something supervisor may use it to handle used Providers and collect info:

Identify, handle, and statement on exclusion problems (SLA violations, support failures, etc.).
Collect performance measurements. Does it range in manufacturing?
Usage data
Details about the Supportis customers
Data concerning adherence.
Information regarding policy administration that is runtime.

Industrial products include:

Amberpoint
Software AG CentraSite (previously Infravio)
SOA Software governance collection

Open-Source items contain (but aren't restricted to):

MuleSource Mule HQ

Please be aware the Open-Source Assistance Administrator items mentioned previously that a professional item will likely be the best option till you will find more aged, and continue to be within their childhood Open-Source choices.

Factors to Consider (for Analysis)

May be the Company prepared to purchase a COTs item? OR, WOULDN'T IT not be unwilling to stay without this?
Might the Assistance Director also dual like a Support Registry / Archive? Do we actually need both kinds of items? OR might having Support Registry / Archive and another Support Supervisor result in scalability and greater efficiency?
Does the Assistance Supervisor use peaceful Web-Services?
Does the Assistance Supervisor possess a web based administration system? How safe may be the system?
How simple is it to un and release -release Something?
How great would be the reviews? What platforms can be found?
What kinds of notice does it provide? Email? SMS? Paging?
How scalable may be the Support Supervisor?
Does Assistance Supervisor have Federation abilities, Load-Balancing, and Fault-Tolerance?

Service Modeling

Government administration of the versions utilized by the info, procedures, guidelines, providers and protection capabilities.

Support Operation Guidelines

Service Lifecycle Management

Government Organization

Providers government involves both technical and company error. This function, although not really a function that is specialized, is just a critical function that has to combine with enterprise-level governance and structure governance, company providers governance, information governance, protection governance and specialized solutions governance, common IT and business-process.

Tracking and Management

Sales

Setup

Setting management may be the providers purpose that's like the application configuration administration that guarantees the interoperability of assets and application components.

Implementation

Monitoring and monitoring of the implementation metadata, of providers versions of the supporting data and also MS structure elements sets. Usually this purpose is incorporated using the Installation & Implementation Tools or software monitoring resources are centered by even the data.

Event Tracking

Monitoring and signing of the function situations and resulting running including failure problems and exceptions. Information must allow planning and the evaluation of new activities, function running and occasion reasoning.

Conditions

The conditions purpose can include signing, and party or exclusion recognition of exclusion communications, the dedication of the exclusion dispositions, delivery of the dispositions.

Life cycle Management

Monitoring and signing of activities and the dealings happening over the providers life-cycle.

Policy Management

Run-time monitoring of the providers' guidelines and agreements, and runtime submission.

Service Versioning

Solutions model tracking, compatibility and implementation information for guarantee the variations that were used are proper, and where numerous variations are needed that they'll co exist, performed and are properly invoked.

Integration

An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is just a crucial enabler for business agility. It allows quicker hotel of recycling of current performance and current methods. An Enterprise Service Shuttle is just an agent that facilitates synchronous support invocation. Additionally, it allows function notice and concept change between programs. It will help customers discover companies and addresses the facts of concept routing and conversation, process arbitration between them. All of the services within an organization (often Web-Services) are created accessible over an ESB.

Business solutions are provided by an ESB for example:

Redirecting - something supplier endpoint and provides a support at. Therefore the support demand must be sent towards the end-point of the supplier in the customer.
Change - something demand may need to be changed to a different in one format. It may be XML to XML transformation.
Variation - Communications within an ESB normal SOAP structure is followed by all of the occasions. Nevertheless some programs may require some type of adapter to change the concept and might not help SOAP structure.
Message - Offers asynchronous message transportation that is reliable.
Orchestration - An integration situation may need condition info to become handled by an engine that orchestrates handle type one service's circulation to a different.
Protection - Certification and agreement of organizations producing the support calls using ESB structure
Customer Incorporation - Capability for customers direct the support demands to that particular endpoint and to search the endpoint.
Service Integration - implementing guidelines allow service invocation and Verifying the support demands.
Measurements and Administration
Invocation - Assistance for synchronous and asynchronous transfer methods, support mapping (finding and binding).

Several ESBs will even give a BPM / Workflow Engine along with a Support Archive / Registry.

Industrial items contain (but aren't restricted to):

Oracle Service Bus
IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
TIBCO ActiveMatrix Support Grid
Microsoft BizTalk Server

Open-Source items contain (but aren't restricted to):

Apache ServiceMix
MuleSource Mule
JBoss ESB

Factors to Consider (for Analysis)

Where within the numerous workflows might we have to utilize an ESB?
May a Workflow ESB do prioritization of procedures? Exactly what does the Company need?
May an ESB manage powerful workflows? Exactly what does the Company need?
Do we require an individual workflow engine because so many ESBs offer workflow abilities?
Because workflow applications declare to supply orchestration, do we do we just require a workflow engine or require a distinct ESB?
Does the ESB assistance Company Activity Monitoring (BAM)? Or even, can there be another BAM item that people can use like a front end?
Could you produce the ESB having a Web-Service (SOAP/XML) phone?
May the ESB produce our Shared Providers having a Web-Service (SOAP/XML) phone?
What variations of SOAP, WSDL WS-I Basic Account, and WS-Protection does the ESB assistance?
What additional WS- requirements that are * does the ESB assistance?
Message platforms and what additional transportation methods can be found using the ESB?
What types of plugs (HTTP, FTP, etc.) can be found using the ESB?
What type of protection does the ESB assistance?
Scalable may be the ESB?
Does the ESB have Federation abilities, Load-Balancing, and Fault-Tolerance?
What is the runtime setting (JavaEE,.Net, etc.) for that ESB?
Which kind of administration / tracking can be obtained for that ESB?
Does the ESB have its stuck Support Registry?
The does the Registry assistance UDDI in that case?
Might the ESB and an exterior Support Registry combine?
Does the JBI standard is supported by the ESB?

Service Integration

Contains Archive, Registry, Mapping and Change capabilities for providers and methods

Message

Concept approval and meaning of communication structure. This purpose may be the first-look at incoming communications to find out what additional capabilities is likely to be named inside the ESB.

Change

Inside the ESB this purpose changes information platforms, information versions (schema), and methods. This purpose is needed to transform between different solutions.

Routing

Communication routing function done from the Business Service Bus usually. Contains the capabilities of Invocation (asynchronous or synchronous), Information Queuing, Trusted Communications, and Content-Based Routing

Orchestration

Orchestration is just a special-type of workflow that's usually put on the building of enterprise procedures from compounds of smaller (e.g., Typical, Information, Power) Providers that not need individual conversation. a control that handles the message between each area of the workflow is frequently included by orchestration.

A requirements-based system that identifies how web-services interact, sequencing, including business-logic process decomposition, including procedure and support recycling. Orchestrations are extended -operating, multiple-action dealings, more often than not managed by one company celebration, and therefore are generally coupled in character.

Services

Shared Solutions are these Providers produced by a business to be used throughout a business:

Business Solutions
Common Providers
Data Providers
Integration Solutions
Power Providers

Shared Solutions are often used as Web-Services to create it combine together and simpler to access them. Please see-the Web-Services area (3.4.9) for accessible items.

Business Services

Business Solutions are in an LOB (Profession) or Business-Unit degree. These are providers in a high level of granularity that match the enterprise's firm facts. Types of Business Solutions include:

For EDRM - Archive.
For Insurance - Car and Homeowners

Business Solutions supply the following advantages:

They're not totally dependent of the software to be able to execute its procedures invoking the support.
The software is dependant on a data design, an XML-based system/vocabulary impartial method to talk addressing company information.

Features:

Some Business Solutions might be subjected to outside associates, and could need additional protection.
Business Solutions are hardly fine.
Business Services are stateless.
Business Solutions are comprised of and influence additional Shared Services (Frequent Providers, Information Providers, Integration Solutions, and Power Companies).
Business Solutions are used as conventional Web-Service (SOAP / WSDL) with XML example files as feedback and result. This really is completed to create it simpler to combine with ESB and BPM products with outside associates.

Application Services

Software webservices utilized for connecting to Customer programs. These providers might be wrapper providers around an RPC, a CICS entry support, or perhaps a typical offtheshelf application (COTS) software providers (like drain or Oracle applications). These providers that are software may also be custom-built.

Data Services

Information CRUD solutions for both customers and companies. However for complicated inquiries these might be low-level composite solutions these are nuclear services usually.

Data Providers help supply and the administration of information between various methods or software elements. These providers are especially essential within the atmosphere because of the several fundamental methods with buildings and individual information methods. Data Providers give a constant method of business-extensive information entry by revealing Produce, Study, Update, and Remove (CRUD) abilities for organizations in a specific company site (that are often saved in a repository). These include Client, Plan, Purchase, State, etc.

You will find two choices for creating and implementing Information Providers:

SOAP/WSDL-centered Web-Service - This is of creating a Knowledge Support a conventional method, but this method is not light and does not combine nicely with web based programs. The software usually employs an XML example doc (with problem variables) as feedback, and an XML example doc (using the outcome set) as result.

You will find two Open-Source items that allow developers to construct Information Providers in a declarative method (i.e., without code) by allowing designers to complement database platforms and posts to XML components and characteristics, including:

XAware

WS02 Data Services

Builders may also create their very own signal to construct Information Providers. Please see-the Web-Services area (3.4.9).

Peaceful Web-Service - This Can Be A more contemporary method to develop Information Providers, which strategy that is light is properly-suitable for help internet programs that require to make use of basic CRUD procedures on information resources. With RELAXATION:

HTTP may be the conversation process in the place of SOAP.
The organization title is within the URI to determine the organization being utilized.
HTTP procedures determine the technique brand - ARTICLE (for Produce), OBTAIN (Read), SET (Update), Remove (Remove)
The result structure may possibly be JSON or XML, but JSON is increasing recognition nowadays due to the compatibility.
Common Open-Source items contain:

Jersey - this API allows builders to release Java courses as peaceful Web Solutions.

WS02 Information Providers - Offers declarative mappings from back end information resources to JSON data structures.

Factors to Consider (for Analyzing Data Providers items)

Without creating any signal may Knowledge Providers be uncovered?
Does it help revealing capabilities and Stored Procedures?

Integration Services

An Incorporation Support (often a Web-Service) functions like a proxy to an exterior service (see section 3.3 for details). An Incorporation Support will become necessary for every someone to conceal the API specifics in the remaining enterprise, and reveal a Web-Service that best suits the requirements of the enterprise despite the fact that several third party providers give a Web-Service API. Types of an Incorporation Support contain wrappers for:

A Web-Service API to get a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) item for example SalesForce.com.
A Delivery Web-Service API supplied by a Delivery Provider for example FedEx or advantages.

the following advantages are provided by integration Solutions:

Managing the reduced-degree specifics (e.g., conversation process, utilizing the software) of invoking the Next party support.
Transforming information between the structure of the business which of the Next party support.
When invoking the Next party support controlling the protection specifics.
Managing support or any conversation -stage problems.
Insulating the remainder of the business from modifications towards the Next party service's software.
Supplying just one Point-Of Handle / Connection With third party providers.
Integration Solutions could be recycled by numerous greater-degree Providers.

Features:

May be used by numerous providers that were high level.
Integration Solutions aren't uncovered outside to outside partners.
Integration Solutions are used as conventional Web-Service (SOAP / WSDL) with XML example files as feedback and result. This really is completed to create it simpler to combine with ESB and BPM products.
Power Companies may be leveraged by integration Services.

Power Services

These would be the nuclear providers which access shared and community, document, publishing resources.

Power Providers are fine grained, and supply program with wrappers -degree performance towards the high level Shared Services. Types of Power Providers include E-Mail, Signing, etc.

Features:

Utilized by numerous providers that were high level.
Power Providers aren't uncovered outside to outside partners.
Power Providers are used as conventional Web-Service (SOAP / WSDL) with XML example files as feedback and result. This really is completed to create it more easy to combine with high level providers. However, if the software to these providers is okay - grained an RPC software can be a greater option as of this degree.

Application Services

Exterior Services

Use of outside resources personal and public, demands safe services that offer access while covering protection and the ethics of these entry requirements, Exterior Providers provide these needs.

For instance these providers could be necessary to reveal Duke providers in the Convergis located site to Infinisys, and really should be properly used to software with Infinisys providers which are uncovered from the managed site. Another instance would be the DCI interfaces to Nuance.

A business doesn't occur in a silo. A business often needs to collaborate using its business associates or with additional programs within the business to be able to get particular careers completed (e.g., credit agreement, delivery deals, etc.). This requires speaking with services or programs supplied by others. A business will often create an Incorporation Support to protect the enterprise's remainder of speaking with third party providers in the details - please see part on Integration Solutions for details. You will find two kinds of Providers:

Support-Allowed - These outside providers therefore are suitable for a SOA Structure and can be found as Web-Services. This may contain:
Creditcard Agreement is liked by company companion Web-Services.
Additional programs inside the business and3rd celebration, for example ERP/Sales methods created resources that require to combine with Shared Services.
Low- Support-Allowed - These outside providers are challenging to combine with, and operate the range of nonstandard interfaces:
TCP/IP - Outlet-centered applications that talk utilizing TCP/IP.
Real HTTP - HTTP guidelines are utilized for both result and insight.
Smooth files - delimited, positional (e.g., just like a COBOL Backup-Guide), etc.
Microsoft files - Term and Shine.

Data Transport Services

Info Transport Providers are solely utilized where considerable amounts of information or really regular information exchanges are needed, and where the transportation of the information through communications might overcome the ESB or additional MCI elements with high degrees of concept information information volumes and/or concept quantities.

These providers utilize an ETL software (Informatica or XML equipment) for that actual information motion, and providers for exclusion recognition, quality, signing and notice.

The actual execution standard considers utilization of Informatica (perhaps XML equipment) for actual information motion, Cybermation for arranging ETL and Managed-Services for exemption handling and temperament. Nevertheless, a XML equipment can be utilized for many or even the physical data transport all.

Info

Master Data Management (MDM)

The providers inside the Managed Data Management Process preserve a Master Data Archive which has occasion master information from information areas for example Celebration (Possibility, Pupil, and School), Class, Log, Plan, and Service.

The main capabilities are Lifecycle Management, Hierarchy Management, Software Providers, MMD Event Management Writing, and Foundation Providers for master information.

Canonical Data Type (CDM)

The information design may be the regular view of the specific subject's description, as well as this same subject's mapping back again to each software view. Canonical information design reduces dependencies between integral programs that use data types that are various. Managed Providers make use of a CDM, and also the same design is likely to help the IMA in providing business-broad business intelligence (BI) although they might not be similar. Event notices and all communications, that are printed by programs, ought to be converted towards the canonical information design therefore decoupling information companies from customers.

Transactional Database

Relational databases which are information outlets for that Managed Data Services Architecture elements. This element doesn't make reference to the program that is transactional / information retailers or software sources utilized by list coating, the information modems, or data marts.

Data Warehouse/Centre

Adata Centre it is the respected supply of information for reporting, and also the respected supply of information for software integration and is just an assortment of information to get a particular company subject-area. Nevertheless, Information Modems CAn't be record's machine, merely a program of research.

Adata Warehouse (DW) is just a solitary, central archive that retains a companyis information to aid reporting and statistics, and also to ensure it is simpler to discover information that's very important to the company. Adata warehouse setting includes the next:

Data Warehouse Storage
Metadata (Metadata is info that provides and explains a regular, agreed upon business description of information, like a client.
Data Entry and Transportation (Extract, Change, and Weight)
The Information Resources

Adata Warehouse significantly simplifies evaluation and reporting. It's a vital enabler of helps KPI tracking and BI / Reporting. Adata Warehouse is generally in another information store from a companyis Functional Knowledge Shop(s) to prevent degrading the efficiency of manufacturing sources.

Structure

Message Transfer

The communications move in the sender towards the readers on the basis of the concept routing reason based on the Routing purpose inside the MCI.

Server

The website machine is offers internet based website use of Internet programs, COTS websites (like MS SharePoint), statistics and reporting websites.

Database Server

Database management program host providing you with the information store CRUD operation.

Information Lifecycle Management

Life-cycle management contains the capabilities of archival, CRUD and access. The providers information this purpose handles contains all information present in the Managed-Services levels that are other. Usually this purpose launch critical information around providers and begins most abundant in mission-critical, versioning, then grows whilst the Managed-Services abilities are aged.

Loadbalancing

Loadbalancing may appear at a variety of amounts using the Managed-Services structure in the preliminary web-server to MCI elements towards network traffic load management and also to the programs host to information weight management. A typical example of the latter is separating the meter Information Transfer Providers by themselves LAN section to reduce the effect of consistency and their quantity about the efficiency of providers that are additional.

Data Transfer

The information goes in the supplier towards the customer.

The bodily motion can be achieved with a support or various other technique for example an ETL tool-like perhaps a XML equipment or Informatica.

Data Lifecycle Management

Process Server

The providers Process Server purpose offers software meaning function and the process design to produce the company guidelines which are explained to get a company process and and to perform the company reason -to-system procedure.

Webserver

Translates and provides webpages in HTTP.

Application Server

The application form server offers the bodily line, and also the performance necessary to perform the program performance reasoning of providers and host process management.

Getting - Driving Toward An Answer

The next diagram demonstrates the way the SOA- structure files that are associated relate solely to one another and just how they generate toward a SOA Answer.

The structure files and results are the following:

The SOA Reference Structure offers recommendations and fundamental SOA descriptions.
The Info (Information) Structure identifies:
Information at-Rest - within the repository and/or information factory
Information in-motion - for that XML communications (see-the Canonical Data Design area (3.6.2)).
The Company Structure identifies what's needed (Person Epics / Person Reports / Use-Cases) and Business Functions.
The Applying Structure identifies the Support Levels, new options, and Support Customers, Shared Services, and Exterior Third Party Providers (see-the SOA Research Structure plan in Section 3.0).
The SOA Solution Structure includes all the above files, and identifies implementations for (see-the SOA Research Structure plan in Section 3.0)
Fundamental Providers
Functional Solutions
SOA Government
Applying the SOA Solution Structure produces:
Described Companies - Providers that allow the company structure, with well defined agreements.
Created & Applied Providers
A SOA Answer

Although this might seem like lots of actions, please be aware that:

That you don't need to apply everything within the plan that is above to begin developing preliminary Providers.
SOA implementation is iterative, method that is chemical.

To create this method doable and concrete, the improvement business should decide just how to determine the SOA structure and just how to apply by utilizing:

Talk Factors - These will work contracts define how builders and the designers works together to determine and build-out the structure. These would be style themes and the businessis guidelines.
Decision Factors - These choices decide the technology collection when developing Providers employed. Choices consider the shape of:

Technology X vs. Engineering B
Benefits and Drawbacks
Your final determination that everybody uses.

The primary objectives listed here are shared perspective along side execution and constant style over the SOA answer.

New / Design Discussion Factors include:

Tying Business Procedures to Person Epics / Person Reports / Use-Cases
Tying Business Procedures to Providers
Needs (Person Epics / Person Reports / Use-Cases) and Business Functions
Applicant Services (centered on Needs and Business Procedures)
Support Style
Designs (SOA, EA, etc.)
Web-Service Style
XML Concept Style
Protection
Webservices Technical Infrastructure (e.g., WS-I Basic Page 1.1, WS-Protection Account 1.0, etc.)
UI - Utilization Of RIA / AJAX
Automatic QA / CI for Element System (Ruby, Java,.Net, PHP)
Dimension and Efficiency
Total Quality
Functionality
Maintainability
Reusability
Extensibility
Mobility
Testability
Configurability

Performance

Scalability
Stability
Accessibility
Protection
Manageability
Serviceability

Setup Discussion Factors include:

Element System (Ruby, Java,.Net, PHP) guidelines
Element System (Ruby, Java,.Net, PHP) code requirements

Decision Factors include:

UI engineering (e.g., Ruby, JavaEE Website,.Net, PHP, etc.)
AJAX API (i.e., School, Model, Scriptaculous, jQuery, etc.)
Web-Services setup engineering (e.g., Ruby, Java,.Net, PHP, etc.)
Web-Services system (e.g., Axis2, WS02, CXF, etc.)
Web-Services Design - SOAP and RELAXATION
SOAP-Design Webservices software - XML vs. RPC
BPMS solution
ESB solution
BAM
Company Registry
Service Boss
Element System (e.g., Ruby, Java,.Net, PHP, etc.) APIs
XML APIs