On demand Operating Environment: Creating Business Flexibility

On demand Operating Environment: Creating Business Flexibility

by Bart Jacob, Surrey Mui, Jatinder Pannu, Sungsim Park, Hugues Raguet, Jack Schneider, Laurent Vanel
Released April 2004
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

This IBM Redbooks publication (along with its companion volume On demand Operating Environment: Managing the Infrastructure, SG24-6634), provides an insight into the kind of Operating Environment required to support an on demand business.

It provides an overview of the architecture of an on demand Operating Environment and describes in detail the components that are required to create business flexibility through integration. To meet the business needs of being responsive, variable, focused, and resilient, an on demand Operating Environment must be integrated, autonomic, virtualized, and open. Though these attributes are all interrelated, this book focuses on the integration component as the key enabler of business flexibility.

A complete on demand Operating Environment is a vision and a goal that many enterprises aspire to reach. However, it is not something that will be attained overnight or by installing a specific set of products. It is something that will be reached through a step-wise progression.

This book provides descriptions of several approaches that one can choose to start implementing pieces of an on demand Operating Environment today. Which approach is right for the reader will depend on their specific business environment and their immediate needs.

Our objective is to help the reader better understand what an on demand Operating Environment is and how they can take steps today to start putting one in place. This book does not go into detailed implementation plans for each technology or product it references, but rather provides a level of information sufficient for the reader to start building a strategy and architecture best suited for their needs. Product-specific details can be obtained from product documentation and product-related redbooks.

Table of contents

  1. Figures
  2. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  3. Preface
    1. The team that wrote this redbook
    2. Become a published author
    3. Comments welcome
  4. Part 1: Overview
    1. Chapter 1: Introduction
      1. Getting to on demand
      2. Infrastructure to support an on demand business
      3. Capabilities
      4. On demand Operating Environment architecture
      5. Summary
    2. Chapter 2: Integration overview
      1. Business drivers
      2. Framework for integration (1/5)
      3. Framework for integration (2/5)
      4. Framework for integration (3/5)
      5. Framework for integration (4/5)
      6. Framework for integration (5/5)
        1. Access and collaboration
        2. Business process execution
        3. Enterprise Service Bus
        4. Adapters
        5. B2B connections
        6. Common information and resource model
      7. Methodology
      8. Summary
  5. Part 2: How to’s for getting started
    1. Chapter 3: How to achieve business flexibility through integration
      1. How to simplify building, developing, and deploying on demand business applications
        1. Vision
        2. How to get started today
      2. How to improve communication and collaboration within and beyond the enterprise
        1. Vision
        2. How to get started today
      3. How to react quickly to changes in the marketplace by modifying business processes rapidly
        1. Vision
        2. How to get started today
      4. How to instrument applications and analyze events they generate to understand business process impacts
        1. Vision
        2. How to get started today
      5. How to create links between new and existing applications
        1. Vision
        2. How to get started today
      6. How to react in real-time by ensuring seamless flow of information
        1. Vision
        2. How to get started today
      7. Summary
    2. Chapter 4: How to rapidly modify business processes
      1. Introduction
      2. General strategy
      3. Solution components
        1. Business process execution
        2. Enterprise Service Bus
        3. Adapters
        4. B2B connections
        5. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) technology
        6. Common information and resource model
      4. Scenarios (1/7)
      5. Scenarios (2/7)
      6. Scenarios (3/7)
      7. Scenarios (4/7)
      8. Scenarios (5/7)
      9. Scenarios (6/7)
      10. Scenarios (7/7)
        1. Manufacturing company re-engineering scenario
        2. ABC Electronics scenario
      11. Product positioning
      12. Linkages
        1. Technology components
        2. Methodology and governance
      13. Glimpse of the future
        1. Integration between business and IT tools
        2. Enterprise Service Bus
      14. Summary
    3. Chapter 5: How to react in real time through seamless flow of information
      1. Introduction
      2. General strategy
      3. Solution components
        1. Access and collaboration via portal technology
        2. Access and collaboration via Lotus Workplace
        3. Business process execution
        4. Enterprise Service Bus
        5. Common resource and information model
      4. Scenario (1/5)
      5. Scenario (2/5)
      6. Scenario (3/5)
      7. Scenario (4/5)
      8. Scenario (5/5)
        1. Business context
        2. Current environment
        3. Business objectives
        4. Technical objectives
        5. Solution approach
        6. Benefits and summary
      9. Product positioning
      10. Linkages (1/3)
      11. Linkages (2/3)
      12. Linkages (3/3)
        1. XML
        2. DB2 XML Extender
        3. DB2 XML Extender and WebSphere MQ
        4. Integration of applications using WebSphere MQ products
        5. Web Services integration
        6. Web Services Object Runtime Framework
        7. DADX overview and structure
      13. Glimpse of the future
        1. Lotus Workplace
        2. Information Integrator updates
      14. Summary
    4. Appendix A: Standards overview
      1. Open source
      2. Standards organizations
        1. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
        2. W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
        3. JCP - Java Community Process
        4. OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
        5. WS-I - Web Services Interoperability Organization
        6. DMTF - Distributed Management Task Force
        7. GGF - Global Grid Forum
        8. OMG - Object Management Group
      3. Key standards (1/3)
      4. Key standards (2/3)
      5. Key standards (3/3)
        1. XML standards
        2. XML Schema
        3. XSLT
        4. SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
        5. WSDL - Web Services Description Language
        6. UDDI - Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
        7. WS-I Basic Profile 1.0a
        8. WS-Security - Web Services Security
        9. OGSA - Open Grid Services Architecture
        10. OGSI - Open Grid Services Infrastructure
        11. UML - Unified Modeling Language
        12. MDA - Model Driven Architecture
        13. CIM - Common Information Model
        14. Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Initiative
    5. Related publications
      1. IBM Redbooks
      2. Online resources
      3. How to get IBM Redbooks
      4. Help from IBM
    6. Index (1/3)
    7. Index (2/3)
    8. Index (3/3)
    9. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: On demand Operating Environment: Creating Business Flexibility
  • Author(s): Bart Jacob, Surrey Mui, Jatinder Pannu, Sungsim Park, Hugues Raguet, Jack Schneider, Laurent Vanel
  • Release date: April 2004
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None