Services / Application Integration

Ensuring the correspondence of IT infrastructure to business demands has always been urgent for organizations working on the highly competitive markets. As the activity expands, the number of systems in the IT environment of organizations increases and the business processes, automated by several applications, appear. The old method of the information system integration “with each other” becomes a bottleneck.

An entirely new approach to the integration is the organization of the information resources of the enterprise in ideology of service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA solutions use the best of the capabilities of the available systems, and their flexibility level allows modifying the IT environment of the organization rather quickly after changing the business-processes.

Brief description of solutions

The project solutions of the Newton Projects company in the sphere of integration of business applications are created to bind the business-processes, automated by different applications, into a single structure and to organize their sufficient interaction. They are created in SOA ideology with use of the enterprise service bus (ESB) – specialized software that allows to:

• bind different automated systems and data sources into a single infrastructure, and preserve the number of system interfaces;
• organize the centralized access to the data of different systems in real-time, ensure the guaranteed message delivery between systems, monitor the business-processes fulfillment;
• modify the existing processes and realize new processes by convenient methods of modeling and development.

The method of implementation

Projects in the sphere of business-application integration supposes the development of SOA solution, choice of integration platform and connecting it both with active and new information systems. As integration platform, we use the following software from the acknowledged suppliers:

• IBM WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Business Monitor, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Adapter;
• Microsoft BizTalk Server;
• SAP NetWeaver;
• TIBCO iProcess Suite, BusinessWorks, EMS, Randezvous;
• ORACLE SOA Suite.

New possibilities

SOA solution gives organization numerous advantages such, as:

1. Business problems solution:
   • Possibility to simplify and connect the processes, automated by different applications, into end-to-end business-processes; to realize the complex business-processes that meet the logic of the organization functioning the best;
   • Possibility to organize the effective interaction of IT systems with systems of business partners;
   • Possibility to build new information systems supporting new services and products into IT environment.
2. Saving expenses in IT direction:
   • Shortening of integration terms;
   • Decreasing of expenses on the support of information systems – SOA solutions in these processes are more economical;
   • Increase the returns of funds put into the system.
3. Increase of security of operations with data:
   • Ensuring of data integrity and consistency in different systems;
   • Reconciliation of data in different systems; Increase of reliability of data exchange between systems.