OpenIntegration
Open Integration Platform
Overview
The Open Integration Platform is a packaged end to end integration solution. It is designed with a purpose to be portable into open source integration platforms. It is the combination of a set of architecture practices, such as reference archciteture, integration patterns, out of box utility services and integration practices for scoping&planning, estimation, end-to-end testing, deployment and governance, etc. It was evolved through various mid-large integration implementations and summarised the most valuable practices, designs and reusable services, with a purpose of creating a strategy integration platform to enable the business agility.
Key Features
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Fully guided by tailored TOGAF architecture
practices for Integration.
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Following industry standards and practices
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Business process and event driven integrations
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Comprehensive reference architecture with
integration patterns
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Rich integration inventory contains out-of-box
services, data models and references for various
systems and third parties
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Scalable infrastructure design supporting
high availability requirements
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Configurable add-on end to end integration security
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Comprehensive enterprise scheduler service with
friendly web application
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Extensive exception handling framework embedded
with a multi-channel notification service
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End to end logging solution with business activity
monitoring capability
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Centralised management and monitoring
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Easy to be customised to fit business requirements
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Combined with end to end integration scoping&planning, estimation, testing, deployment and governance practices
TOGAF Fast Track for Integration
Overview
The TOGAF Fast Track for Integration is based on TOGAF 9 to summarise various deliverables, artifacts and their relationships covering all architecture domains within 3 major architecture iterations, including Business, Information, Application/Integration, Technology, Security, Transaction, Governance and Change Management. It is a practical guidance for every organisation to adopt TOGAF 9 and utilise it for defining the end to end integrations. The TOGAF Fast Track for Integration could also be used as a practical guide for Enterprise Architecture.
Architecture Iterations and major steps
The major 3 architecture iterations, include Solution Vision, Conceptual Architecture and Logical/Physical Architecture. Each iteration will cover all required architecture domains based on TOGAF ADM, with following major steps:
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Planning and reusing
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Select Reference Models, Viewpoints and Tools
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Developing Architectures
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Develop Baseline Architecture
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Develop Transition Architecture (Opt)
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Develop Target Architecture
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Reviewing consistency and practicality
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Analysis Gaps
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Define Roadmap
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Resolve Impacts
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Formalising
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Formal Stakeholder Review
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Finalise the Architecture
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Finalise Architecture Document
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Deliverables and Traceability
The Deliverables and traceability are key components of the TOGAF Fast Track for Integration. It defines a list of deliverables, artifacts and the traceabilities of them for all architecture domains with a purpose of tracing the business requirements to technology implementation. It provides a list of templates and practices to guide the entire architecture design life-cycle, build the architecture inventory and provide valuable documentations for integration implementation. The TOGAF Fast Track for Integration can also be used as a practical guide for establishing Enterprise Architecture for the entire organisation.
Data View as an example
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Enterprise Scheduler
Overview
The Enterprise Scheduler provides the scheduling services for enterprise to initiate batch integrations, business events, business services, end to end business processes, Unix/Linux scheduling tasks per defined schedules.
Key Features
Enabling simple or complex schedules, embedded with business rules
Monitoring capability to ensure all schedules are initiated and accepted
Reporting and alerting capabilities
Historical tracking
User friendly web interface for both business users and administrators
Access control
Scalable and high available deployment to all major application servers
End to end logging
Overview
The end to end logging is a multi-channels business transactions logging service. It can be used to capture the creating/updating/tranferring/deleting/deriving activities for business transactions within an end to end business process. It provides a light weight end to end business transactions tracking capability for business to identify the current status or the exceptions in a quickest way.
Key Features
Multi-channels logging information capturing
Supporting both pulling logs and receiving logs
Supporting single log message or batch messages
Support Sync and Async invoking
Configurable business transaction reporting
Alerting on business rules
Real-time dashboard to monitor highly critical business transactions
Historical tracking
User friendly web interface for both business users and administrators
Access control
Scalable and high avaliable deployment to all major application servers