Application Integration: The Big Picture
Piecing the AI Puzzle Together
Posted on 1/8/2007 (originally published in print on 3/1/2005)
by Lorne Kaufman
You just got an email from your boss which states that the CIO has just signed a major deal with a new technology partner. This partner will bring all of your company’s legacy applications into the 21st century. Your boss assigns you the task of figuring out a way to bring your PeopleSoft Application interfaces into the 21st century as well. You are a little concerned but you remember somebody demonstrating at the last PeopleSoft Conference, in between the parties, delivered technologies that will meet your company’s new needs and requirements. You quickly sign into PeopleBooks and Customer Connection to see if you can remember what these tools we called. After searching the content you find three technologies that will deliver on your needs: Component Interface, WSDL and Messaging. You then remember a corporate email you recently received that mandated, due to Sarbanes-Oxley, any new technologies deployed in the enterprise must meet very strict security requirements. You log back onto PeopleBooks and
Customer Connection to gather more information on security as it relates to the integration technologies available in PeopleSoft. It’s there! Wow; this PeopleSoft Application is always full of surprises! They thought of everything! Now it is time to understand what each technology does, and how it might serve the needs of the enterprise.
What are these technologies and what purpose will they serve in my enterprise?
Integration Broker
The Integration Broker (See Figure 1) is the framework on which PeopleSoft technologies are built. The Integration Broker brings the various integration technologies into a hub and spoke architecture allowing development of specific interfaces to occur once and then publishing that information to other systems that need to subscribe to it. The Integration Broker is the hub which handles the complex system-to-system interactions by way of its supported technologies: Application Messaging, Component Interfaces and WSDL. The Integration Broker is comprised of four key elements: Packaged Connectors, Intelligent Routing, Transformation, and a Development and Monitoring Environment.
Figure 1
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