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The True Economy Natural and Total Business Integration. Gerd Sohns Director Product Marketing Software AG. Can your business evolve to meet the demands of today and tomorrow?. Challenge. Company A. Enterprise Transaction Systems. RDBMS. ERP. Company B. Enterprise Transaction Systems.
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The True EconomyNatural and Total Business Integration Gerd Sohns Director Product Marketing Software AG
Can your business evolve to meet the demands of today and tomorrow? Challenge
Company A EnterpriseTransactionSystems RDBMS ERP Company B EnterpriseTransactionSystems RDBMS ERP Business today …“People as integrators” People conduct business. This will not change. The HumanInterface
Company A EnterpriseTransactionSystems RDBMS ERP This needs an interface that is extremely easy to learn and can evolve with your business. Business to Consumer (B2C)“Customer as Integrator” Your Customer needs to understandyour business process ?
Company A EnterpriseTransactionSystems RDBMS When IT Systems conduct business with IT System ERP Web Server This is e-business Firewall IT becomes the business Company B EnterpriseTransactionSystems RDBMS ERP Business to Business (B2B)“Technology as Integrator”
IT System = Business Impact of e-business on IT Infrastructure Exposure ! Continuous availability X X Consistency of business process
Complexity beyond the scope of most EAI products ACME Retailer EnterpriseTransactionSystems RDBMS ERP Customers and E-TradingCommunities Web Server Firewall Suppliers and Outsourcers Supplier XZY Supplier XZY Supplier XZY Supplier XZY EnterpriseTransactionSystems EnterpriseTransactionSystems EnterpriseTransactionSystems EnterpriseTransactionSystems RDBMS RDBMS ERP ERP RDBMS RDBMS ERP ERP E-Business needs massive simplification
The Many Reasons for Integrating “Legacy” Applications and the Web B2E B2C B2B Extend Application Reach New Application Developments TCO Cost Savings Technology Appeal Strategic Architecture Process Automation Tactical Legacy Extensions
Evolve your business systems Web ? InteractiveServices Sub-second Response
Steps Toward Electronic Business BusinessIntegration Presentation Interaction Business to Business Sell Tell • Electronic Cash Systems • Supply Chain Management • Customer Relationship Management • Online catalog • Online service • Web pages
Logistic Co. Credit-Card-Processing Web Service Internet Bank Order Fulfilment Web Service B2C Portal Application = Application = Service = Web Service E-Tailer Web Services: The New Dimension of Web Integration
The Reason for TBI ... Greater Business Agility for Competitive Advantage Interactions of disparate applications, business functions and business units within or outside enterprise boundaries Total Business Integration EAI Middleware
Reintroduce the concept of the document as an electronic means of exchanging high level requirements Solution Raise interfacebetween systems to new, higher level Collaboration vs. Integration Is this new ?
The most successful business documentin the history of the planet Issued by trustedauthority Self Describing Hard toforge World-widestandard Easy to understand Convertible Machine Readable
Marketing Web Page Price List Data Sheets Bid Proposal Reference Documents Sales Initial Proposal Contract Project Plan Fulfillment Shipment receipt Restocking Order Delivery Receipt Customer Service Warranty Information Product Documentation Maintenance Parts Lists Repair Manual Document Types of a Transaction Workflow
Self describing • Convertible • World Wide Standard • Easy to Understand • Machine Readable • Issued by trusted authority • Hard to Forge Digital Signatures The electronic business enabler XML XML allows electronic documents to be :
Internet Internet Business Process Integration Customer Vendor Suppliers XML XML XML XML
XML XML XML XML XMLThe standard to collaborate Electronic Information Publishing Electronic Sales Systems Core Business Systems Electronic Supply Chain Management Electronic Document Management
Enterprise Database Server Enterprise ApplicationServer XML Server The Server Space let document centric and transaction centric worlds collaborate
Natural Vision Building Complex, Composite Enterprise Applications • Enabling the creation of composite e-business applications by ensuring the seamless integration of Natural in any application component model • Provide the foundation for Web Services • Extending Natural functionality by providing component generation capabilities • Develop on any platform for any platform
Laptop,12345, ... Call Function F1 input =Laptop,12345, ...output =yes, 06-06-2000, ... yes, 06-06-2000, ... <?xml version="1.0" ?> ... <on stock>yes</on stock> <delivery>06-06-2000</delivery> ... XML Gateway - XML to Natural Input Document <?xml version="1.0" ?> ... <product>Laptop</product> <order no>12345</order no> ... Natural Function F1 Natural RPC call Output Document
Natural Tamino Extension Java, C/C++ Natural applic. XML Tamino XML Database <Customer> <Name> <Order>* <Date> <Detail>+ <Quantity> <Number> <Description> <Color> </Detail> </Order> </Customer> Tamino Server X-Tension Tamino X-Node Natural application Adabas
XML Toolkit • Map Natural data definition to DTD • Map DTD to Natural data definition • Generate Natural source code to Serialize Natural data into an XML document • Generate Natural source code to assign “tokenized XML” to Natural data structure
Request Document - Example • Read HTML page display HTML code • HTTP get request
Create XML Document with Natural DEFINE DATA LOCAL 1 #XML TAG AS PROCESSING <"xml"> ... 1 #XML-DOCUMENT (A) DYNAMICEND-DEFINEFIRST-NAME := “Paul"Name := “Smith” SERIALIZE XML #XML EMPLOYEE INTO #XML-DOCUMENT DEFINE WORK FILE 12 "d:\out.xml"TYPE"unformatted”WRITE WORK FILE 12 VARIABLE #XML-DOCUMENTCLOSE WORK FILE 12 END
Access XML data base with Natural Transparent “Natural like” XML access FIND EMPLOYEE BY NAME READ UPDATE DELETE Data Base access to TaminoXQL or XPATH will be generated.The XML result will be “parsed” into Natural data.
The Natural Way to XML • Receive XML • Map XML • Create XML • FindTamino
Adabas Vision • Enterprise data is the primary asset of the organisation • This asset is the foundation of a e-business strategy • Adabas ensures that this asset is always available and always consistent
Publications XML Will Not Replaceexisting Databases XML Server Web Adabas LOADING MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • Legacy Systems • Heavily structured data • DBMS rule • B2B2C • Unstructured data • Teams with DBMS • Publication • Web • Paper • Wireless • Data interchange
The Ultimate Goal Non-Stop Availability - d a t a s h a r i n g - r e s o u r c e s h a r i n g - w o r k l o a d b a l a n c i n g -
The Adabas Way to the Web Fast Scalable Reliable
Order Transact Integrate Collaborate Evolve your transactions to the Web Show me my order
Utilize the Solutions of Adabas and Natural to Collaborate with the Web Strategy