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Integration Levels
Data Level
– Data-level EAI means moving information between two or more
databases in order to integrate the applications
API Level
– API-level EAI uses existing application program interfaces that m
ight exist within custom or packaged applications
User Interface Level
– User interface-level EAI uses the user interface as a noninvasive
point of integration
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Benefits of EAI
• Making information available from front-office to back-office
• Expanding customer and supplier relationships
• Responding to mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
• Integrating with best of breed products
• Getting new applications up and running faster and more cost effectively
• Integrating and maintaining mission-critical legacy systems
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Issues in EAI
EAI solutions are problem / organizational specific
Requires extensive analysis and thorough requirements gathering
Requires understanding of
– enterprise metadata model
– business processes
– application interfaces
– business events
– transformation of data
– information mapping in the Enterprise
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TIBCO - Brief Overview
Why TIBCO?
• Reliable, scalable, proven messaging product
• TIBCO Offers a “true” messaging bus architecture
• Flexibility of components and architecture
• Workflow and EAI Components in same suite
• Large number of Generally Available (GA) Adapters for integrating Commercial
Off The Shelf Products
• TIBCO Vision and Financials
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Meeting the Challenge of e-Business
The challenge of e-business is the real-time integration of end-to-end
business processes.
The challenge is met through:
• EAI
Integration of internal systems
Management of internal
business processes
• Portals
Personalized interactivity
Anytime anywhere access
• B2B Integration
Document Exchange
Management of cross-company
business processes
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Adapting Applications into the Bus
TIBCO ActiveEnterprise provides adapters that connect applications by converting in
ternal events into messages
– Off-the-shelf adapters for ERP, CRM and B2B applications and databases
– Adapters for development models and other messaging technologies
– Development kit for quickly creating custom adapters
Existing Network Lines
ERP and CRM
Databases
Billing & Provisioning
Domain-specific Apps
COM,CORBA, EJB
SAP R/3
Peoplesoft
Oracle Applications
Siebel
Baan
Clarify
I2
JD Edwards
Lotus Notes
Vantive
Oracle
DB2
Informix
ODBC
SQL Server
Sybase
MQSeries
MSMQ
E-mail
Web
Fax
GSM