Standardize and secure your exchanges
When attempting to represent data interchange between applications within an information system architecture (EAI for Enterprise Application Integration), any diagram, even for a well-ordered and structured organisation, will ultimately tend to resemble a plate of spaghetti! Over the years, point-to-point interfaces have been built, connecting individual applications in the IS for data interchange purposes, both internally and with partners external to the business.
This entails many pitfalls, and it is essential to identify the risks and limitations
of using Excel as the core element of such processes :
Little or no supervision
over data interchanges
No control over or ability to anticipate
any side effects caused
by changing a given interface
A vicious circle is formed, whereby rather than running the risk of changing an existing interface, a new one is built, consequently adding yet more “spaghetti”.
01THE PITFALLS
The IT Department headache of data integration between applications
These data interchanges are increasingly business-critical, and IT teams are often forced to make a huge effort to attain the quality of service levels stipulated in SLAs, and that are required by functional management and by customers. Moreover, the widespread use of applications provided in SaaS mode in businesses also makes data integration architecture more complicated for IT Departments, who now are increasingly called upon to manage interchanges with the outside world while simultaneously increasing their information system’s security.
Each time a new application is introduced into the company, the information system architecture becomes a little more complex. The need to make disparate applications communicate with each other while securely managing the data traffic between them can become a real headache.
02METHODS AND SOLUTIONS
EAI tools to improve data integration between applications and keep it secure
In response to these issues, the Blueway data integration platform serves to standardise the data flows exchanged between several applications by means of a number of fully-integrated tools :
An inter-application data interchange scenario management design workshop, using a simple, pragmatic and effective web-only graphical interface.
Technical connectors to the main SQL and NoSQL databases, flat files and XML, email, FTP, sFTP, EDI, LDAP, Web services, etc.
Standardised application connectors to the main applications on the market (CRM Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, AX and CRM, Cegid, Movex, Oracle Applications, Pivotal, SAP, Selligent, Siebel and Sage X3, JDEdwards, Baan, SugarCRM, etc.).
Unit and integration test kits, enabling full test sets to be run.
The native integration of an ESB that provides structured and secure management of interchanges between applications and eliminates the “interface spaghetti” effect.
A fully-integrated data interchange supervision platform delivering a 360° view of how data traffic is running.
Tools to make the operations department proactive.
Impact analysis and refactoring tools to realign data interchange between applications to meet requests from functional departments (changes to or development in component applications, legal or production constraints, and so on).
Used in vocational training, secondary education, school transport, paperless billing and mailing systems among others, Blueway is the core of our information system.
Which EAI systems pose agility challenges to business organisations ?
The many aspects of traffic between applications…
The Blueway platform greatly simplifies how data is manipulated. You manage data integration between your various applications, and with applications run by your partners, customers and suppliers, using standardised ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) toolkits.
With more than 160 customers using the Blueway platform, there are some 1.5 million flows processing, carrying and integrating millions of data items each and every day.
The Blueway platform is used to integrate data by users working in fields as varied as manufacturing, healthcare, services, local authorities, pharmaceutical labs, food processing, and so on.
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