Session SOA-12 Solving OpenEdge

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Session SOA-12Solving OpenEdge Integration
Scenarios With Sonic ESB

• Bob Trabucchi
• Senior Systems Engineer

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Purpose of This Presentation

• Problem too much too fast!
• And we often leave you to figure out how to
  handle it.
• Solution Provide more palatable samples of our
  technology
• Outline recognized OpenEdge integration problem
• Show directly how Sonic ESB solves it

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Why Does Integration Seem So Hard?

• Those who initially ventured out got clobbered!

Integration projects average 20 months to
complete
Fewer than 35 of projects finish on time and on
budget
35 of software maintenance budgetis spent
maintaining point-to-point application links
Statistics from Forrester Research Reducing
Integration Costs
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What Went Wrong?

• Many technologists were forced to use integration
  technologies available at the time.
• Developed for client/server world
• Dont scale beyond the enterprise
• Require lots of coding and specialized processes/
  kludges.
• Proprietary
• Result in single-use solutions

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OpenEdge Integration Scenarios

• File Transfer Systems
• Pre-packed applications
• eCommerce
• Conclusions

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Application Integration Models
Two typical approaches
Sales
Warehouse
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Data Integration Model
File transfer systems

• Term used to describe a group of homegrown
  integration solutions that implement a Data
  Specific Model.
• Use combinations of
• multi- step copies
• merge of database/file data
• FTP
• Batch processing
• Complex maze of scripts, applications, and manual
  processes.

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File Transfer System Example
Flat file copy
Warehouse
Sales
Fulfillment Application
Order Application
Database
Database
FTP/Batch
Flat File
Flat File
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File Transfer System Example
Database copy
Load
FTP/Batch
Transform
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File Transfer Systems
Technical pains

• Message Latency
• Information is delivered hours to weeks late
• Reliability
• Other applications,networks,copy problems
• Downtime
• Databases must be frozen for copies
• Synchronization
• Everyone goes live together

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File Transfer Systems
Business pains

• Revenue generating applications offline
• Incredible overhead
• 24 hour IT staff
• High cost of extra hardware, software
• Networks, databases, maintenance
• Problems that systems encounter using stale data
• Lost revenue
• Poor customer service

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File Transfer Systems
Business pains
Overnight
Overnight
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File Transfer Systems
Business pains
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But it doesnt have to be this way!
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Introducing Sonic ESB
Intelligent middleware implemented

• Standards-based intelligent middleware platform
  designed to facilitate integration
• Contains
• Messaging 100 reliable, scalable secure
  communication delivery system.
• Framework to build/deploy standalone and
  reusable integration logic modules
• Connectivity components
• Wide variety of integration endpoints
• Service-Oriented architectures of tomorrow

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Sonic ESB solution
Reliable, real-time, reusable
Out-of-box Service
Sonic ESB
Load
Extract
Transform
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File Transfer Systems
The Sonic ESB solution

• Sonic ESBs real-time data integration means
• Revenue generating apps are constantly running
  increased revenue
• Elimination of 2nd and 3rd shift IT resources
  lower costs
• Elimination of hardware and software lower
  costs
• Resulting solution is reusable

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OpenEdge Integration Scenarios

• File Transfer Systems
• Pre-packaged Integrations
• eCommerce Integrations
• Conclusions

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Application Integration Models
Two typical approaches
Warehouse
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Real-time Pre-packaged Integrations
Background

• Business needs require OpenEdge application to
  talk with entrenched pre-packed applications.
• Traditional solutions use combinations of
• Synchronous exchange assume 100 up-time
• Complex and hard-coded data conversions
• Expertise in 3rd-party applications
• Solution hard-coded into OpenEdge application

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Real-time Pre-packaged Integrations
Background
Sales
Transform
OE Application
SAP API
Transport
RPC
Database
Solution is hard-coded into the application
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Real-time Pre-packaged Integrations
Background
Warehouse
Transform
SAP Application
Sales
OE API
Transport
OE Application
Database
Database
Somebody has to take the hit!
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Real-time Pre-packaged Integrations
Technical pains

• Reliability
• Synchronous transfer assumes 100 up-time
• Complexity
• Limited expertise with prepackaged app means
  costly experts or lengthy training
• Mountains of code to write/maintain
• Synchronization
• Slightest change means redeploying

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Real-time Pre-packaged Integrations
Business pains

• Problems that systems encounter when a component
  goes down
• Lost revenue
• Poor customer service
• Business needs dictate quickly delivered and
  reliable integration solution just to survive!
• Managers want solution now, not in 6 months when
  it is too late

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But it doesnt have to be this way!
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Sonic ESB Alternative
A better way

• Adapter-based solution
• Pre-built adapters map proprietary APIs to
  standards (XML)
• Solution built on Standards-based messaging
• Insulates applications from downtime
• Scalable and flexible
• All participants are blissfully unaware
• Integration modules exist outside the business
  critical applications

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Sonic ESB Adapter-based Solution
Reliability and interoperability solved
Sonic ESB
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3
2

• Component Breakdown
• OpenEdge Sonic Adapter
• Transformation Service (resolve mismatches)
• SAP Adapter for Sonic ESB

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Real-time Prepackaged Applications
The Sonic ESB solution

• Sonic ESBs real-time application integration
  means
• Revenue generating apps are constantly running
  increased revenue
• Solution is built using out-of-box components
  lower costs
• Resulting solution is reusable
• Prepackaged applications now
• HTTP, Java, C/.Net, Web Services next

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OpenEdge Integration Scenarios

• File Transfer Systems
• Pre-packed applications
• eCommerce applications
• Conclusions

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Real-time eCommerce Integration
Background

• Business needs require OpenEdge application share
  data over the Internet
• Traditional solutions use combinations of
• Synchronous exchange assume 100 up-time
• Complex, hard-coded, non-standard transforms
• Expertise in HTTP(S)
• Security expertise

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Real-time eCommerce Integration
Background
Warehouse
Head Office
Java Application
OE Application
Internet
HTTP(S)
Database
Database
Each codes Security, Transform, and Transport
Logic
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Real-time eCommerce Integration
Technical pains

• Reliability
• Synchronous transfer assumes 100 up-time
• Complexity
• Mountains of code to write/maintain
• Synchronization
• Slightest change means redeploying
• Security
• Security is your domain

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But it doesnt have to be this way!
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Sonic ESB Alternative
A better way

• Solution built on standards-based messaging with
  native HTTP(S) support
• Insulates applications from downtime
• Scalable, flexible, built-in security
• All participants are unaware of each other
• Integration modules exist outside the business
  critical applications and are built using
  reusable components.

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Sonic ESB eCommerce Solution
Secure, resilient, and reusable!
Sonic ESB
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HTTP(s)

• Component Breakdown
• OpenEdge Sonic Adapter
• Transformation Service (resolve mismatches)

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Real-time eCommerce
The Sonic ESB solution

• Sonic ESBs real-time eCommerce application
  integration means
• OpenEdge applications are shielded from failures
  higher revenue
• Result Reusable Solution
• HTTP(s) Now
• Same solution for pre-packaged applications, FTP,
  Java applications, etc.

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OpenEdge Integration Scenarios

• File Transfer Systems
• Pre-packed applications
• eCommerce applications
• Conclusions

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In Summary

• Avoid costly mistakes
• Build the smarter solution first!
• Get on the Bus!

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Where To Go From Here?
Get some specifics!

• SOA-03 Open Up Access to your 4GL Applications
  Using Web Services
• SOA-05 Building an Enterprise SOA Using ESB
• SOA-06 Get on the Bus with the OpenEdge Adapter
  for Sonic ESB
• SOA-09 Conducting Business with OpenEdge and
  Sonic

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Questions?
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Thank you for your time!
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