Moving Forward with the On Demand Real-time Enterprise

Moving Forward with the On Demand Real-time Enterprise

by Chuck Ballard, Fabio Hasegawa, Gord Owens, Soren Ravn Pedersen, Klaus Subtil
Released September 2006
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

Having more, and more current, information is fast becoming a requirement for business survival. The need permeates the enterprise because it enables proactive decision-making for problem avoidance, rather than reactive problem impact minimization. And that is the key. Thus the need for, and focus on, is real-time.
Companies no longer have the long strategic time-frames in which to plan, design, and manage their business processes. Yearly revenue goals and measurements are fast becoming quarterly goals and measurements. Investors and share-holders are more demanding. They are more critical, and less forgiving, of missed performance goals. And these demands are coming at a time when the volume of data is growing, there is an increase in business mergers and acquisitions, the use of strategic outsourcing is growing, and there is an increasing requirement for faster and faster turnaround on information requests. This has put an enormous burden on the information technology (IT) organizations. And most of this change is centered around business intelligence, because that is the environment responsible for providing information for management decision-making.
This IBM Redbooks publication explores the techniques and capabilities for evolving to a real-time enterprise. It also demonstrates approaches for that evolution and provides examples to help guide you in developing your strategy and implementation methodology to become a real-time enterprise.

Table of contents

  1. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  2. Preface
    1. The team that wrote this redbook
    2. Become a published author
    3. Comments welcome
  3. Chapter 1: Introduction
    1. The environment today
    2. The on demand real-time enterprise - an overview
      1. Information as a service (1/3)
      2. Information as a service (2/3)
      3. Information as a service (3/3)
      4. Moving to real-time
    3. Contents abstract
  4. Chapter 2: The real-time enterprise
    1. A bit of history (1/2)
    2. A bit of history (2/2)
    3. In search of the real-time enterprise
      1. Attributes of the real-time enterprise (1/2)
      2. Attributes of the real-time enterprise (2/2)
    4. Positioning business intelligence
    5. Closing the loop (1/2)
    6. Closing the loop (2/2)
    7. Industry examples
      1. Retail (1/2)
      2. Retail (2/2)
      3. Insurance
      4. Telecommunications
      5. Travel
  5. Chapter 3: Architectural considerations
    1. Introduction
      1. The impact of data warehousing
      2. Information management challenges
      3. Creating an information infrastructure
      4. The layered data warehouse architecture
    2. Approaches for data access, transformation, and movement
      1. Extract, Transform and Load - ETL
      2. Enterprise Information Integration
      3. Enterprise Application Integration
      4. Data replication
      5. Custom build
      6. Combined approach
    3. Other considerations
      1. Database
      2. Master data management
      3. Analytic applications
      4. Closed-loop environments
    4. Information as a service
      1. Service Oriented Architecture
      2. Enterprise service bus (ESB)
      3. ESB and the real-time enterprise
  6. Chapter 4: IBM technologies supporting real-time
    1. DB2 Data Warehouse Edition
      1. Data Warehouse Edition V8.2
      2. Data Warehouse Edition V9.1 (1/7)
      3. Data Warehouse Edition V9.1 (2/7)
      4. Data Warehouse Edition V9.1 (3/7)
      5. Data Warehouse Edition V9.1 (4/7)
      6. Data Warehouse Edition V9.1 (5/7)
      7. Data Warehouse Edition V9.1 (6/7)
      8. Data Warehouse Edition V9.1 (7/7)
    2. DB2 Alphablox
      1. DB2 Alphablox applications (1/2)
      2. DB2 Alphablox applications (2/2)
      3. Deploying DB2 Alphablox
      4. DB2 Alphablox services
      5. Blox server/client structure
    3. WebSphere Information Integration
      1. WebSphere Information Integrator (1/2)
      2. WebSphere Information Integrator (2/2)
      3. WebSphere DataStage
      4. WebSphere ProfileStage
      5. WebSphere QualityStage
    4. Process Integration
      1. WebSphere Business Modeler (1/2)
      2. WebSphere Business Modeler (2/2)
      3. WebSphere Business Monitor
      4. Architecture
      5. Component details
      6. Databases
      7. The Monitor dashboards
      8. WebSphere Process Server and Integration Developer (1/2)
      9. WebSphere Process Server and Integration Developer (2/2)
    5. Application Connectivity
      1. WebSphere Message Broker
      2. Information distribution
      3. WebSphere MQ
    6. Balanced Configuration Unit
      1. Balanced Partition Units
  7. Chapter 5: More real-time enterprise enablers
    1. Continuous flow processing
      1. SQL replication
      2. Q-replication
      3. Event publishing
      4. Comparing the technologies (1/2)
      5. Comparing the technologies (2/2)
    2. Messaging
      1. WebSphere MQ and continuous flow
      2. DB2 MQ Listener
      3. DB2 MQ functions
    3. SQL generators and applications
      1. Capture
      2. Delivery
      3. Transform
      4. Apply
      5. ELT in an enterprise business intelligence system
    4. Extract, transform, and load (ETL)
      1. Using ETL tools
      2. A WebSphere DataStage project (1/2)
      3. A WebSphere DataStage project (2/2)
  8. Chapter 6: The project test environment
    1. Preparing for the case study
      1. Business functional areas
      2. The big picture
    2. Test Scenario A
      1. Software overview
      2. Test environment
    3. Test Scenario B
      1. Software overview
      2. Test environment
    4. The real-time enterprise - a case study example
      1. The scenario
  9. Chapter 7: The case study
    1. Introduction
      1. The company
      2. The data flow
    2. Tested technologies, results and findings
      1. Enterprise Information Integration (1/6)
      2. Enterprise Information Integration (2/6)
      3. Enterprise Information Integration (3/6)
      4. Enterprise Information Integration (4/6)
      5. Enterprise Information Integration (5/6)
      6. Enterprise Information Integration (6/6)
      7. Extract, transformation, and load
      8. The dashboard (1/2)
      9. The dashboard (2/2)
      10. Enterprise Application Integration (1/4)
      11. Enterprise Application Integration (2/4)
      12. Enterprise Application Integration (3/4)
      13. Enterprise Application Integration (4/4)
      14. Test with combined EII and ETL (1/2)
      15. Test with combined EII and ETL (2/2)
      16. Closing the loop
  10. Glossary (1/2)
  11. Glossary (2/2)
  12. Abbreviations and acronyms
  13. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Online resources
    3. How to get IBM Redbooks
    4. Help from IBM
  14. Index (1/3)
  15. Index (2/3)
  16. Index (3/3)
  17. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: Moving Forward with the On Demand Real-time Enterprise
  • Author(s): Chuck Ballard, Fabio Hasegawa, Gord Owens, Soren Ravn Pedersen, Klaus Subtil
  • Release date: September 2006
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None