System Integration testing is a phase of most projects where a component is connected to other external systems and an enterprise view of a solution emerges that spans across modules, systems and people-organizations. This phase of most projects is notoriously difficult to complete on time and budget. This phase varies from the Integration Testing (IT) […]
1 Introduction 1.1 Key Definitions for Acronyms 1.2 Target audience Target audiences for this document are: Teams involved in defining and developing BizTalk Server based solution Teams involved in implementing the BizTalk based Integration Architecture. Teams involved in maintaining the BizTalk Server based solution 2 Solution Deployment Best Practices In order to deploy […]
1. Scope & purpose This document intends to provide an overview of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). It also identifies high-level requirements and then goes on to propose a typical architecture for such an Enterprise Bus. 2. Introduction Last few years has seen a tremendous growth in business integration. Companies have focused on achieving this integration […]
Loose coupling applications, makes them easy to scale out, expand and maintain, and decreases the cost to change them in future. Messaging is one of the ways of doing loose coupling. Messaging enables solutions to be scalable, queues acting as a load buffer, each application can work at its own speed. To differentiate messages, engine […]
Provisioning: An information worker can package information needed by other participants in a business process into a seed package. Seed created by hub system can contain a broad range of things, including assemblies from orchestrations, BAM views, and BAM activities, a profile for system generating the package. After a system receivies a seed package, its […]
BAS are meant to be used by business people, and not by developers, it makes sense to expose them through familiar tools. BAS = BAM + TPM + BPC + BPP TPM: Establishing connections requires agreeing on several things Common protocol Format messages Process that will derive business. BPC: Business process configuration helps information workers […]
Here are a few basic tips some of the team came up with that helped BizTalk beginners comprehend the EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) domain, especially in a Microsoft BizTalk context. Integration projects don’t follow ‘water fall model’. Most basic need of integration is; ‘ messages generated from one application must be sent to another application […]
Most IT systems are planned for 5+ years but the employees required to keep this system running have a half-life of much less than that. This brings home the inevitable reality of having to transition the project/product/solution possibly multiple times during its lifespan. The IT industry is plagued by steady growth, which means lots of options […]
This article is a continuation of our series (part 1, part 2) on entrepreneurship in the enterprise. This specific one deals with HOW to go about doing that. Below is a set of specific recommendation that can help consulting firms looking to make their teams: contribute to the top line take ownership of BUSINESS problems […]
Most companies would like their managers to take on more responsibility, help with the company’s top line and take ownership of what they deliver, in essence wanting them to be entrepreneurial within the structure of the organization. Several factors differentiate an entrepreneur from a corporate manager. The differences between the two can help develop an […]