COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE FOR THE ENTERPRISE Bjarne Schytte Country Manager

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COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE FOR THE
ENTERPRISEBjarne SchytteCountry Manager

• BEA Systems
• The Enterprise Middleware Solution
• Open Networks 99
• www.beasys.com

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BEA Systems
Market leader from the beginning...

• Founded 01/1995
• Revenue 289 M USD (31.1.1999)
• Employees 1500
• Offices 50, 24 countries
• Product families BEA TUXEDO, M3, BEA
  WebLogic, BEA eLink
• Customers 2000
• Funding Warburg, Pincus Nasdaq
• Parnter ISV, SI, hardware-OEM
• BEA Systems Nordic 50 employees

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IT History
Legacy
Client Server
Components
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The challenge
Udfordringen består i dag at fastlægge,
hvorledes virksomhedens centrale IT-funktioner
bedst og mest sikkert kan udnytte middleware og
Internettet. Begrebet IT-strategi omfatter nu
også en plan for, hvorledes virksomhederne bedst
muligt kan servicere kunder, dele projektdata,
kommunikere med omverdenen og effektivisere egne
arbejdsgange ved i større eller mindre grad at
udnytte Internets udbredelse og delvis attraktive
pris Alt om Net Bjarne Schytte
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Applikationsservere
For de fleste viser løsningen sig i form af en
kombineret transaktions-monitor og
Java-applikationsserver, der skydes ind i den
eksisterende applikationsstruktur som bindeled
mellem publicering af data på web-siten,
udførelse af transaktioner i disse data, og
sikker eksekution i virksomhedens interne
EDB-system
Alt om Net Bjarne Schytte
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A Pragmatic view towards middleware
Customer selection criteria for middleware
Mission-critical applications

• Reliability and availability
• Performance
• Management
• Security
• Scalability
• Standards compliance

• transactional integrity
• reliability
• availability
• scalability
• manageability
• security

Source Gartner Group
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What is Middleware?

• Application Servers Business logic platform
• Between data and presentation, middleware is a
  layer for deploying business logic - the software
  that runs your business
• Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
  Supports application interoperability
• Integrates customer applications and other
  backends, middleware integrates the enterprise

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BEAThe Enterprise Middleware Solution

• Build
• Easy application development
• Independence from Language or Component Dialect

• Connect
• Integrate the past, present and future
• Extend Applications

BEA Middleware Suite

• Deploy and Manage
• Independence from System and Network Architecture
• Enterprise-class operations

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The need for technology glue

• By 2001, 75 of all new business systems will be
  built using a component architecture Gartner
  Group
• Both monolithic three-tier, and the fine-grained
  object-oriented partitioning will be rare.
  Gartner Group

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The need for technology glue

• Infrastructure software is time intensive. Off
  the shelf infrastructure decreases development
  time by 50 Standish Group
• By not writing infrastructure code, application
  development savings range from 25 to 60
  Standish Group

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The need for technology glue

• In future most organisations will relate to
  their customers primarily through or with the
  assistance of software. This fact should point
  organisations towards the building of a flexible
  and highly scaleable software infrastructure that
  can deliver the business applications of the
  future. Robin Bloor, CEO, Bloor Research

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Goal of Enterprise Middleware
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Management - Middleware Infrastructure Makes
Components Work
Check Credit
Check Inventory
Add Customer
Send Alert
Place Order
Management Console
Solid Deployment, Management Environment Needed
For Components To Prevent Chaos
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The Critical Questions

• Is it secure?

• Can it support all my users?

• Will it run all the time?

• Can my staff manage it?

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The Critical Answer
Standard Component Models Enterprise Deployment
ModelsStandard Connectors
The Critical Answer
Secure Supports all my users Runs all the
time Staff can manage it
Flexible Extendable Incremental
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