SOA-02:%20Sonic%20SOA%20Products%20Overview

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SOA-02 Sonic SOA Products Overview

• Luis Maldonado
• Technical Product Manager
• Sonic Software

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Your Speaker
A little bit about me

• Technical Product Manager at Sonic Software
• Responsible for Sonics development tools,
  Orchestration Server and Collaboration Server
  products
• 13 years of experience with distributed systems
  and middleware products
• Working with Web Services technologies since 1999

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Agenda

• SOA and Integration
• Sonic SOA Suite Overview
• Sonic Futures

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Business Drivers Behind SOA
Why is SOA important?

• What SOA provides
• Broad-scale application connectivity and
  interoperability
• Easier alignment of IT around the needs of the
  business
• Enhanced reuse of existing applications and data
• Reduced integration costs
• Reduced vendor lock-in

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Need for Integratable Applications
and why should I care?

• Integration top concern for end users
• Cost drain for IT projects
• Major factor in many IT project delays and
  failures
• Integration is now a major requirement
• If you dontyour competitors will

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OpenEdge Sonic SOA Infrastructure
Building your SOA infrastructure

• Build and integrate with OpenEdge and Sonic
• Focus on business logic not infrastructure
• Leverage existing legacy applications
• Cost effective, incremental integration

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Sonic SOA Infrastructure

• Suite of products providing essential
  capabilities for building a SOA
• Built on Sonic ESB

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Sonic ESB
Connect, Mediate and Control

• Connect applications
• Legacy, COTS, Java
• Mediate interactions
• Protocols, data formats, routing
• Control infrastructure
• Configuration, deployment, monitor and manage

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Sonic ESB Architecture
Makes SOA flexible, scalable, dependable

• Metadata-driven service configuration
• Unified namespace and invocation model
• Cluster-wide topics and queues
• Dynamic Routing Architecture
• Continuous Availability Architecture

SERVICES
SERVICECONTAINER
MEDIATION LAYER
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Why Not Use Web Services?

• How do you
• Deploy?
• Monitor?
• Control?
• Connect Legacy Applications?
• Mediate data formats?
• Dont forget
• Scalability
• Reliability
• Security

SOAPHTTP
WEB SERVICESINTERFACE
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Sonic Orchestration Server
SOA-based Business Process Management

• Graphically model business workflows
• Orchestrate ESB services, processes and users
• Accommodate continuing process improvement

SONICORCHESTRA-TIONSERVER
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Sonic Database Service
Data store access

• Access data in OED and foreign data sources
• Service interface to database queries
• XML to query/result mapping
• Load balancing

SONICDATABASESERVICE
SQL CALLOR STORE PROCEDURES
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Sonic XML Server
XML processing and storage

• Optimized pipeline processing model
• Native XML storage
• Document Caching
• Data aggregation and transformation

SONICXMLSERVER
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Adapters for Sonic ESB
Integrate business assets

• On-ramps and off- ramps for the ESB
• Proprietary and complex applications
• B2B protocols
• Packaged applications
• Mainframe and legacy

SONIC ESBENTERPRISE SERVICE BUS
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Sonic Collaboration Server
Partner integration for enterprise SOA

• Incorporate external partner interactions
• Standard B2B protocols ebXML, RosettaNet, WS
• Trading partner management
• Comprehensive security

E-PURCHASEPROCESS
PO
SONICCOLLAB-ORATIONSERVER
ACK
ASN
INVOICE
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OpenEdge Adapter for Sonic ESB
Service-enabling OpenEdge 10

• Business logic in OpenEdge 10 / 4GL
• Process integration logic in ESB
• OpenEdge tools for configuring adapters
• Deploy OpenEdge apps as ESB services

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Under Development

• This talk includes information about potential
  future products and/or product enhancements.
• What I am going to say reflects our current
  thinking, but the information contained herein is
  preliminary and subject to change. Any future
  products we ultimately deliver may be materially
  different from what is described here.

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Future Product Directions

• WS- standards
• WS-BPEL support
• Eclipse-based tools for Sonic OpenEdge
• Improved support for 4GL apps on the ESB
• Usability!!!

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In Summary
Sonic ESB Pre-built SOA infrastructure
PORTAL SERVICE
USER-DEFINED SERVICE
BATCH SYSTEM
APPLICATION SERVER
RELATIONAL DATABASE
PROCESS SERVER
LEGACY APPLICATION
The direct path to SOA
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Questions?
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Thank you for your time!
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