Achieving SOA: The Product Solution

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Achieving SOA The Product Solution
Ken Wilner
Vice President of Technology
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Globalization is Driving Competition
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The Pressure on IT
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Todays Business Environment

• Distributed, 24x7 operations
• Heterogeneous systems
• Poor application-to-application connectivity
• Data access and consistency challenges

DistributionCenter
Supplier
Retail
HQ
Partner
Plant
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Impediments to Agility
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Agenda

• SOA Concepts
• SOA Maturity Model and Progress Products
• Summary

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Introducing SOA SOBA
Service-Oriented Architecture gt Service-Oriented
Business Applications

• An approach for building agile and flexible
  business applications
• Loosely coupled services
  flexible business processes
• SOA is not
• A product or application
• A specific technology
• A specific standard
• A specific set of rules

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Loose Coupling How Loose is Loose?
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• The less you know the better!!
• Just tell me the interface
• Little or no knowledge of language or platform
• Web Services gets all of the hype, but its not
  the only approach
• It doesnt come for free

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Services In Action
Service Requester
Service Request
Service Response
Service Contract
Service Provider
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Key Concepts

• Service Provider
• Service Requester
• Service Contract
• Service Infrastructure

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Service Provider

• Accomplishes a defined, self-containedunit of
  work
• Does not depend on the state of other
  process/functions
• Internal details typically hidden
• Programming language
• Execution logic
• Data store (if any)
• Exposes service via a service interface
• Security
• Service infrastructure
• Context management
• Object activation
• May call other service providers

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Service Requester

• Presentation layer or another service
• Locates service provider through agreed upon
  service directory
• Binds/invokes service based on service contract
• Service adapter encapsulates all issues
  associated with accessing service
• Security
• Service infrastructure
• Context management
• Service discovery

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Service Contract
Terms and Conditions for Service Requester

• What service operations are available
• Input output messages supported by each
  operation
• Data representation model of each message's
  contents
• Rules and/or policies for using the service
• QOS aspects

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Documenting Service Operations
Some possibilities

• Shared XML Schema
• Shared interface file
• Web Service Description Language (WSDL)
• Available business methods (operations)
• Message structure (data fields, types)
• Bindings for operations (SOAP over HTTP)
• Hardcopy specification of one of the above

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SOA Infrastructure

• Connects Service Requesters with Providers
• May be used to communicate with Service Registry
• A variety of technologies are available for
  implementation
• Technology choice impacts service coupling

Service Provider
Service Requester
SOA Infrastructure
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Agenda

• SOA Concepts
• SOA Maturity Model and Progress Products
• Summary

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SOA Service Types
Root Service Requester
Business Process Services
Intermediary Services
Business FunctionServices
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The SOA Maturity Model
Loose
ServiceCoupling
Tight
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Level 1 Initial Services
Getting Started With Initial Services

• Benefit
• Reusability
• Easier to add new functionality
• Scope
• RD Experiments, Pilot Projects, Web Site,
  Portal, Custom Integrations, Small Number of
  Services, Wrapped Legacy Applications
• Champion
• Technical Decision Maker
• Goals
• Learn SOA Concepts
• Practices
• Creating Service Definitions, Mixed Technologies
  or Standards

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Getting Started - Initial Services
Achieving Service Orientation On-line Order
Processing
PROCEDURE StartOrder . .END. PROCEDURE
UpdateCustomer . .END. PROCEDURE
CheckInventory . .END. PROCEDURE
ScheduleService . .END. PROCEDURE
CloseOrder . .END.
PROCEDURE StartOrder . .END. PROCEDURE
UpdateCustomer . .END. PROCEDURE
CheckInventory . .END. PROCEDURE
ScheduleShipping . .END. PROCEDURE
CloseOrder . .END.
OpenEdge
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Level 1 - Initial Services
Root Service Requester
OpenEdge
BusinessFunctionServices
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Level 1 Product Options
OpenEdge AppServer

• Access your business logic from anywhere
  including GUI, CHAR, Java,.NET, ESB, and Web
  services
• Scaleable, reliable, and highly available
• Built-in load balancing and locationtransparency

On-line Order Entry
WarehouseApplication
Root Service Requester
BusinessFunctionServices
ScheduleShipping
OpenEdge
OpenEdge
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Level 2 - Architected Services
Institutionalize use of SOA

• Benefit
• IT Cost Reduction and Control
• Scope
• Multiple Integrated Apps, Support Corporate
  Standards
• Champion
• CIO
• Goals
• Strategic use of SOA
• Practices
• Selecting Technology Standards, Platforms,
  Policies and Processes, SOA Competency Center and
  Compliance Boards, Intermediate Services Ensure
  Conformance

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Level 2 Architected Services
Root Service Requester
IntermediaryServices
BusinessFunctionServices
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Level 2 Product Options
Sonic ESB OpenEdge Adapter for Sonic ESB

• Sonic ESB
• Standard, managed connections
• Eclipse-based workbench
• DRA and CAA supports very large and highly
  available deployments
• Built-in Web Service capabilities
• Almost any interaction model supported
• OpenEdge Adapter for Sonic ESB
• OpenEdge Web services adapter hosted as a service
  in the ESB container

Root Service Requester
IntermediaryServices
BusinessFunctionServices
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Level 2 Product Options
DataXtend SI
WarehouseApplication

• Eclipse-based graphical tool and expression
  builder simplifiesdevelopment and testing of
  models and rules
• Common model can be basedon UML, WSDL, XML
  Schemaand relational schemas
• Dynamic lifecycle management tools support
  hot-deployment and extensiveimpact analysis tools

Root Service Requester
IntermediaryServices
CheckInventory
BusinessFunctionServices
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Level 2 Product Options
Actional SOAPstation
WarehouseApplication

• Highly configurable, rules-based Web service
  proxy that combines key security, transformation,
  routing, and alerting capabilities
• Supports key security standards likeActive
  Directory, LDAP, Netegrity, WS-Security, and
  SAML
• Supports round robin, least busy, and weight
  round-robin load balancing algorithms

Root Service Requester
IntermediaryServices
Data Transformation
CheckInventory
BusinessFunctionServices
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Level 3 - Business and Collaborative Services
Externalize use of SOA

• Benefit
• Business responsiveness
• Scope
• Processes across beyond business unit
• Champion
• Business unit manager
• Goals
• Ongoing partnership between business technology
  organizations
• Practices
• Specify Policies for use of SOA in creation
• change of processes

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Level 3a Business Services
Root Service Requester
BusinessProcessServices
IntermediaryServices
BusinessFunctionServices
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Level 3a Product Options
Sonic ESB and BPEL Processes
Root Service Requester

• Graphical design tools simplify development of
  multi-step ESB processes
• Built-in debugging and diagnostic tools make it
  easy to monitor processes and diagnose problems
• Easy to expose processes as Web services
• Easy to call Web services from process

BusinessProcessServices
IntermediaryServices
BusinessFunctionServices
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Level 3b Product Options
Adapters for Sonic ESB

• Adapters for the major packaged applications
• Support for all industry standard B2B protocols
  including RosettaNet, ebXML, cXML, EDI, Swift,
  etc.
• Automatically transforms Sonic message to and
  from the appropriate standard

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Level 4 - Measured Business Services

• Benefit
• Real-Time business decision making
• Scope
• Business unit or Enterprise
• Champion
• CFO
• Goals
• Define and meet business oriented performance
  metrics
• Practices
• Collect and analyse real-time performance
• Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) monitor and
  react to business events
• Business Process Visibility aligns IT
  performance metrics with business goals

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Level 4 Measured Business Services
Apama for BAM

• Event Modeler allows business users to quickly
  design, test and deploy event scenarios
• SmartBlocks enable the pre-packaging of event
  processing logic
• Rich dashboard toolkit

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Level 4 Product Options
Actional LookingGlass

• Real-time browser-based UI enables IT to quickly
  visualize, monitor and manage services
• Flow Map technology discovers and displays all
  services dependencies and relationships
• Business Process Visibility capability allows IT
  to drill down and see how detailed information

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Level 5 - Optimized Business Services
Automatic reaction response

• Benefit
• Business optimisation
• Scope
• Business unit or enterprise
• Champion
• President / CEO
• Goals
• Enterprise-wide leadership for SOA governance
• Practices
• Implement self-correcting business processes
• React and respond automatically, e.g. dynamic
  pricing

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Level 5 Product Options
Apama for ESP

• Modular integration framework to incorporate
  event processing within existing networks and
  applications
• Comprehensive set of APIs are available to
  integrate event processing functionality within
  the existing application environment
• Built-in actions for alerts, email, SMS as well
  as the ability to trigger application events

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The SOA Maturity Model
BUSINESS BENEFITS
SOA MATURITY LEVEL
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Agenda

• SOA Concepts
• SOA Maturity Model and Progress Products
• Summary

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In Summary

• SOA
• The architecture for the agile business
• SOA is a design approach
• Not a technology
• Take small steps
• Evolution, not revolution

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For More Information, go to

• PSDN
• A New Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  Maturity Model (http//www.psdn.com/library/entry!
  default.jspa?categoryID55externalID1937fromSea
  rchPagetrue)
• Sonic Evaluation Kit (http//www.psdn.com/library/
  entry.jspa?externalID1681categoryID89)
• Service-Oriented Architecture(http//www.psdn.com
  /library/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID55)
• Progress eLearning Community
• XML Essentials, XSLT Essentials
• SOAP for OpenEdge Developers
• WSDL for OpenEdge Developers
• Consuming Web Services from OpenEdge
• OpenEdge Development with Sonic ESB

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Questions?
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Thank you foryour time
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