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Role of SOA, ESB, and BPM in Integration Projects

This post was updated to reflect current trends and information.

Role of SOA, ESB, and BPM in Integration Projects

Today, in order to increase efficiency and be competitive, companies must quickly respond to any internal or external changes in business processes. The company’s IT infrastructure, plays a critical role in responding to such changes considering it is built based on a flexible and agile architecture.

The complexity of the IT infrastructure leads to increased costs, resources, and integration time.

The infrastructure flexibility and agility of an enterprise, can be achieved by building an IT environment based on Service Oriented Architecture – SOA.

Key Components of a SOA:

– Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
– Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
– Business Rules
– Complex Event Processing (CEP)
– SOA Governance
– B2B Integration
– Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
– Unified Management & Monitoring

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) – is a communication system between mutually interacting software applications in the service-oriented architecture (SOA). ESB provides a cost-effective way to centrally configure, deploy, and manage services across a large enterprise.

The SOA’s goal is to set up an IT infrastructure in which all the necessary IT resources of the company are provided in a flexible, efficient and fast way.

Accelerating Business through Business Process Management and SOA
Business Process Management

BPM (Business Process Management) is a common attribute of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and an instrument through which a company can apply SOA to high-value business challenges. Both SOA and BPM can be applied individually, but the two agreed approaches offer mutual benefits for business.

The combination of BPM and SOA provides companies with a new generation of tools for the rapid development of composite business applications. This allows to maximize the use of all available resources of the company, as well as quickly connect new ones.

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Integration‎ based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

This post was updated to reflect current trends and information.

These days, many companies have very complex and advanced IT infrastructures, numerous applications, ERP and CRM systems, and other business software.

As businesses evolve, corporate information systems become more fragmented.

It is not advisable to simultaneously abandon all outdated information systems and integrate a new one.
In addition, often just one business system cannot satisfy all the needs of a company.

The integration of various heterogeneous solution plays a key role in the corporate IT environment. In most cases, system integration is a forced measure aimed at improving the efficiency of the company’s business processes.

Responding to business needs, software manufacturers are constantly improving integration solutions.

What is Service-oriented architecture (SOA)?
SOA

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a modular approach to software development based on the use of distributed, loosely coupled, replaceable components, and equipped with standardized interfaces for interoperability over standardized protocols.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) was introduced in the late 1980s. It was originally presented by CORBA, DCOM, and others. There are several implementations patterns but in fact, SOA can be reduced to a few concepts:
  • Autonomy (independent evolution, scalability, and deployability).
  • User-facing application compatibility.
  • Reuse of business services.
  • Independence from a technology stack

SOA Fundamentals

The basis of SOA is the standardization of relationships between applications. Each system has an “input”, where the initial data is set, and an “output”, on which we get the result of processing this data, thus, these fragments need to be connected into one whole.

The main connecting elements are adapters (connectors) that convert incoming data (service request) and output (service results) into a standard form. Due to this, the application can use as a service a wide variety of “users” (including other applications) and for the convenience reasons, it’s necessary to form the consolidated register with the description of existing services and “rules” of their use (Enterprise Service Bus).

In this way, it is possible to connect to the service only if an adapter has been developed to the corresponding application (or database) that converts incoming / outgoing data into a standard form.

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The Integration Platform Magic xpi includes 100+ prebuilt certified adapters for leading IT systems.

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The SOA integration solution is centralized and the Enterprise Service Bus acts as the medium.

An enterprise service bus (ESB) implements a communication system between mutually interacting software applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). (Source: Wikipedia)

All customer services communicate in the same way with the ESB: the ESB translates a message to the correct message type and sends the message to the correct consumer service.
An enterprise service bus (ESB) implements a communication system between mutually interacting software applications

 

SOA standards

SOA standards have already evolved tremendously, and this happened at all levels:
  1. Modern and diversified adapters
  2. standardization of interoperability through the transport layer
  3. description of business processes

SOA standards have been developed and approved by standardization organizations, which comprise the largest vendors. The expansion of the pool of adapters to the most common industrial applications and databases continues – there are only a few hundred adapters at the moment, and partially integration problems are resolved by the expansion of the standard adapter set.

If there is no ready-to-use adapter to the application used in the enterprise, it can be developed in accordance with already established standards, thus providing the opportunity to integrate this application into the corporate IT environment as a service.

One of the main advantages of using the SOA concept is the rapid response of the information system to changes in business processes. SOA allows you to quickly and with minimal changes rebuild the system to new data manipulation schemes.

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