Enterprise Application Integration

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Enterprise Application Integration Create real time information access among systems, streamline business processes and raise organisational efficiency whilst maintaining information integrity across multiple systems 16 – 19 September 2012 • Radisson Royal Hotel, Dubai, UAE

Top 6 Learning Objectives 1. Address the challenges of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) to generate new business opportunities 2. Integrate mission critical applications to achieve a flexible enterprise 3. Present different integration approaches, architectures, methods and tools to achieve competitive application integration 4. Focus on integrating business processes to improve performance and cost containment 5. Frame an effective EAI solution and evaluate your current efforts 6. Increase value by focusing effort on projects with realistic business yield and opportunity Organised by:

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Enterprise Application Integration 16 – 19 September 2012 • Radisson Royal Hotel, Dubai, UAE Course Timings Registration will be at 07.30 on day one. All days will commence at 08.00 and conclude at 14.30. There will be breaks for refreshments at 10.30 and 12.30. Lunch will be at the end of each day’s sessions.

Course Overview In today’s business environment it has become essential for organisations to make extensive use of computer systems and applications in order to establish and maintain a competitive advantage.

Unfortunately, all too often applications are not fully integrated within an organisation, preventing the seamless flow of information throughout the enterprise and forming ‘information silos’, or pooling of information resources. If applications cannot communicate with one another to share data or business rules this will lead to inefficiencies, wherein identical data are stored in multiple locations, or straightforward processes are unable to be automated.

Enterprise application integration (EAI) is the process of linking such applications within a single organisation together in order to simplify and automate business processes to the greatest extent possible, while at the same time avoiding having to make sweeping changes to the existing applications or data structures. EAI is the unrestricted sharing of data and business processes among any connected application or data sources in the enterprise.

Advantages include real time information access among systems, streamlined business processes and raising organisational efficiency, maintaining information integrity across multiple systems and easing of development and maintenance.

What is needed is a key set of integration strategies, approaches and concepts that form the foundation of new technology driven business opportunities such as e-commerce, grid computing and business intelligence.

This course presents the different integration approaches, architectures, methods and tools for achieving the degree of business and application integration for competitive business execution. The relationship of various integration strategies is presented and an EAI methodology is defined with supporting methods for major EAI steps. Exercises performed at the end of key sections plus product demonstrations provide a head start in framing an effective EAI solution or evaluating your current efforts.

Day One Introduction And Overview – Enterprise Application Integration • Course objectives and structure • The integration situation – need, opportunity and value • EAI driving forces • The integration landscape • Business and technical objectives • About enterprise application integration • An integration methodology (top-down, bottom-up, middle-out) • Where do you start?

Exercise – The EAI Readiness Assessment

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The Enterprise Business Integration Approach (EBI) • Business integration – motives and goals • Forces of business integration (merger, acquisition, consolidation, restructure) • The business case for business integration (agility and digital execution) • Logical versus physical integration • Business integration strategies • Integration impacts Exercise – Integration Impact Assessment Architecture Driven Integration Requirements • EAI requirements through use of architecture (a tool for integration) • Business architecture – identifying the needs – process requirements, information / data requirements needs • IT architecture – application , data, technology, communications (components) • Issue in interoperability (technology and content integration) • Accessing business performance information (alternative in data integration) • Model comparisons and means of developing strategy for integration • Component model (model, view, controller) as an integration approach • Developing an EAI strategy Exercise – Developing Integration Requirements

Day Two The Enterprise Application Integration Approach • The architected technique • End-to-end integration (applications and services) • Point-to-point integration • Consolidation • The legacy imperative • Standardisation issues • Impact assessment – changes that bridge the gap Exercise – Identify And Rank Integration Initiatives – The Plan Developing Integration Strategies • EAI architecture: components and layers • Data level integration • Legacy integration, portals and XML • Business process and logic integration • The idea and issue of metadata and integration • Process standardisation • Content, documents and knowledge integration Demonstration – An Integration Product Enterprise Segregation – A New Issue • Motives for segregation (divestiture, privatisation, deregulation, product/service architecture change) • Data segregation • Segregating application code and logic • Segregating the enablers • Infrastructure issues

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• Content, documents and knowledge segregation Exercise – Defining A Data Segregation Strategy

Day Three The Integration Project • The integration project • The EAI methodology • The assessment stage, technical, architecture, functional • Identifying opportunities for short term yield • Deployment issues (sizing, cost, skills and time) • Infrastructure planning and architecture • EAI metrics

Meet Your Expert Course Leader Frank Kowalkowski is President of Knowledge Consultants Inc., a professional services firm founded in 1984 with practice areas in knowledge management, business intelligence and performance, business and systems architectures, supply chain management and application design and development.

Exercise – The EAI Project Plan He has 30 years of management consulting and industry experience in manufacturing, distribution, insurance and financial services. Frank has been involved with projects that include e-commerce, application integration, ERP and supply chain management, knowledge management, artificial intelligence, business performance measurement, data warehousing and process improvement.

Data Integration Techniques • The data archipelago • Data mapping – sources and targets • Data integration issues • The ODS, ADS, data hub and other approaches • A data integration example • Data and metadata Exercise – Source To Target Mapping The Service Oriented Architecture Approach To Integration • The enterprise as services • SOBA – Service Oriented Business Applications • The service oriented architecture concept • Web services • Integration with services • The impact of services • A services example Demonstration – An Architecture Tool

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Previously he was Director of Consulting for the Spectrum Group. Frank was responsible for reengineering consulting, process improvement and operational systems consulting. His engagements included senior management presentations, audits, assessments, organisational studies, and methodology development and implementation. He was also a Manager of Consulting with Kearney Management Consultants with broad-based experience as a project manager on productivity improvement projects.

He is the author of Enterprise Analysis, published by Prentice-Hall and over 70 papers.

The Oracle Integration Approach • Oracle application integration architecture • Industry specific integration • Cross application integration • Direct integration • Process integration packs

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for IT professionals and supervisors who are responsible for integrating IT, business applications and content. It will benefit all professionals responsible for business processes and planning, business process analysis, IT projects, IT operations, applications, networks, information systems, business systems, IT architecture, IT infrastructure and IT strategy.

Exercise – EAI Strategy With Processes The IBM Business Components And ESB Integration Approach • The IBM component idea • Creating business components • Metadata for business logic • The ESB idea • Websphere MQ approach • The message broker

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Exercise – EAI Strategy With ESB The Microsoft Application Integration Approach • Microsoft dynamics • AIF – the Application Integration Framework • Managing data • Document services • Web services

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