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leveraging existing resources and skill sets. In addition, it is optimized for rapid

application delivery and deployment, and provides a component-based,

comprehensive framework for integrating analytics into existing business

processes and systems. By implementing solutions that include DB2 Alphablox,

you can increase the value of your information assets by delivering business

insight to the right people at the point-of-decision.

The Alphablox environment was developed with the following hardware and

software configurations:

򐂰 Hardware

– Intel Server with 1 processor

– 1024 MB memory

– 20 GB disk space

򐂰 Operating System

– Windows 2000 SP 4

򐂰 Software

– DB2 UDB V8.2 Enterprise Server Edition FP10

– DB2 Alphablox V8.2

– WebSphere Application Server V5

򐂰 WebSphere Portal Server V5

6.3 Test Scenario B

This test scenario is basically the same as scenario A, except that we used some

enhanced functionality in WebSphere. That came in the form of the WebSphere

Message Broker V6 and the Advanced Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). This

extends the integration of a service-oriented architecture to encompass the

entire enterprise and beyond.

6.3.1 Software overview

In this scenario, we enabled the ESB and created a service oriented

environment. This service oriented test scenario is depicted on Figure 6-4.

Basically this scenario is the same as Scenario A. The only difference is that

now, the closed-loop structure is accomplished through the use of the ESB. So,

we now get all the benefits of ESB, and have a solution that is significantly more

flexible, and more cost effective to implement.