Seminar Topic: IBM WebSphere Business Integration

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Seminar Topic IBM WebSphere Business
Integration Sreenivas Angara Solution
Architect Mercury Consulting Corporation sangara_at_m
ercurycc.com
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WBI Server Express 4.4
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Business Pains
Many companies face similar challenges and pains
Challenges Pains
Remain competitive Increasing costs of managing business processes Inefficient decision making Increasing costs of training employees Declining profitability and eroding market share
Streamline operations Multiple sources for same data results in errors Employee inefficiency from using multiple applications and performing redundant tasks Independent applications are not always able to work together
Respond quickly to changing market and customer demands Customer complaints due to difficulty of locating information quickly Unable to extend the value of existing systems to customers and partners Difficulty of supporting mergers or acquisitions
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What's Needed

• Address these business challenges by
• integrating applications
• Automate manual processes
• Exchange information between applications
• Reuse and leverage existing assets as they grow
• Extend systems to meet increasingly complex
  requirements

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Solution Benefits
Utilize Business Integration technology to
...and achieve these benefits

• Better customer service by reducing time to
  respond to questions and needs
• Revenue growth by leveraging existing assets and
  extending systems to meet increasingly complex
  requirements
• Working capital reduction
• Faster internal decision making

Integrate Processes
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Solution Benefits
Utilize Business Integration technology to
...and achieve these benefits

• Information from multiple sources can be
  aggregated
• Increase productivity and lower education costs
  for existing employees.
• Reduce costs of writing and maintaining
  customized code running on top of applications
• Improve data integrity

Connect Applications
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Solution Benefits
Utilize Business Integration technology to
...and achieve these benefits

• Increased accuracy in data due to fewer manual
  processes
• Increased customer satisfaction by giving
  Customer Service Representatives a single point
  of access to information

Exchange Information
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Business Process Example Parts Requisition
Manual Process
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Business Process Example Parts Requisition
Manual Process
Application 1
Out of Parts -
Submit for
Requisitions
Need to Create
Evaluation
Requisition
Custom Code
Application 2
Items
Catalog
Valid?
Custom Code
Calculate Cost
Submit for
Approval
Custom Code
Sufficient
Check Budget
Funds?
Application 3
Custom Code
Accounting
Yes
Requisition Ready For Approval and Ordering
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Connector
Connector
Connector
Connector
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Application 1
Requisitions
Out of Parts - Need to Create Requisition
Connector
Process Integrator
ItemsValid?
Application 2
Catalog
Calculate Cost
Connector
Check Budget
Application 3
SufficientFunds?
Accounting
Connector
Requisition Ready For Approval and Ordering
Connector
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Application 1
Requisitions
Out of Parts - Need to Create Requisition
Connector
Process Designer
Process Integrator
ItemsValid?
Application 2
Catalog
Calculate Cost
Connector
Check Budget
Application 3
SufficientFunds?
Accounting
Connector
Connector
Requisition Ready For Approval and Ordering
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Solution Architecture
WebSphere Business Integration Server Express
Catalog
Users
Process Integration Server
Requisitions
Accounting
Legacy/Package Software Servers
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Solution Software

• IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Express
  v 4.4
• Helps mid-market businesses quickly and easily
  integrate their applications with a low total
  cost of ownership.
• Provides a suite of pre-packaged process
  templates to implement common mid-market business
  processes including Procurement, Customer
  Relationship Management, Order Management, and
  Human Resources
• Offers a rich toolset, easy installation, and
  proven technologies
• Integrates and automates business processes
  internally and with customers, partners and
  suppliers

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DEMO
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DominoConnector
ReqValidation_3J
JDBCConnector
JMSConnector
DominoConnector
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Solution Summary

• With a Business Integration Solution you can ...
• ... combine business processes and connect
  applications

decrease time to make decisions
... put employee focus back on customer service
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Seminar
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