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AIA in Action Release 2.01:

Understanding Oracle's

Applications Integration Architecture

Rob McMillen

Solutions Architect


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What you will Learn Today

Overview of Application Integration

Oracles Approach to Integration

Architecture, SOA and AIA

Role of Fusion Middleware in AIA

Drill Down Into AIA Foundation Pack

Benefits of AIA to Organizations

Other AIA Resources


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Application Integration Overview


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Integrating Applications

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A1

A4

A3

A2

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A1

A2

A3

Integrating Applications requires reliably transmitting information from onesystem to another in a timely manner to support business needs.

Customer Information, Sales Information, Credit History, Inventory status,

Shipping status, Order status, Balances, .


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Why Integration?

Increase expectations

Competitive Pressures

Higher Labor Costs

Value of Business Process Automation

Mergers

Globalization

Growth in Partnerships


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Integration Challenges

IT overload and scheduling demands

Cost of Development

Immaturity of standards and the frameworks using those

standards - Governance

Complexity of Design

Cost of Maintenance

Inflexibility of Solutions


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Application Integration History

Timeframe Characteristics

1960s Specialized and Independent Application Modules,

manual transfer of data (hand posting or re-entry)

1970s Application Suites become popular for Manufacturing,

Distribution and Accounting. Inter-module sharing for

single Suite.1980s Early standards for data sharing (X12) begin. Custom

one-of-a-kind batch-oriented and file-based integration.

1990s Growing use of transaction managers like Tuxedo to

provide an integration framework. Proprietary solutions

for integration of new applications. Database replicationand links added.

2000s Growth of Java, Internet and early Service Oriented

approaches. More standards introduced.


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Integration Trends

From less programming to more declarative configuration

From proprietary to more use of standards

From inflexible to more flexible

From batch-oriented to more many transactions

From occasional updates to more real-time

From simplicity to complexity (1 to N, N to 1)

From internal only to more external integrations

From low change rate to many requests for changes


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Integration Types

IntegrationMethods

Timeliness IntegrationComplexity

InterfaceCapabilities

ExpectedTransaction

Volumes

Oracle

Interface

Tables

Daily,

Weekly,

Monthly

Batches Simple Thousands

Data

IntegratorWeekly Medium DB Load Millions

AIA Real-Time High Ser vice Enabled Thousands

SOA Real-Time High Standards Thousands

NDM Hourly Medium Proprietary Thousands

Application Integration Architecture is designed to best support thousands of

transactions per minute, at near real-time speeds, supporting any level of

complexity or transformation using Service Enabled connections between

applications.


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Transactional Integrity

ATOMICITY: A transaction should be done or undone completely andunambiguously. In the event of a failure of any operation, effects of all operationsthat make up the transaction should be undone, and data should be rolled back to itsprevious stat

CONSISTENCY: A transaction should preserve all the invariant properties (suchas integrity constraints) defined on the data. On completion of a successfultransaction, the data should be in a consistent state. In other words, a transactionshould transform the system from one consistent state to another consistent state.For example, in the case of relational databases, a consistent transaction shouldpreserve all the integrity constraints defined on the data

ISOLATION: Each transaction should appear to execute independently of othertransactions that may be executing concurrently in the same environment. Theeffect of executing a set of transactions serially should be the same as that ofrunning them concurrently

DURABILITY: The effects of a completed transaction should always be persistent AUDIT LOGGING: A clear log record showing data validation, transaction rates,transaction states and transaction completion

EXCEPTION HANDLING: A robust exception reporting capability with drill-down capabilities to speed incident resolution


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Oracle Application Integration AIA


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Oracle Integration Architecture

AIA Foundation Pack

Process Integration Packs

Application Suites

Fusion Middleware SOA Suite

Application Server 10gDatabase Grid Computing

(10g/11g)


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Review of Architecture Components

Oracle Database provides the persistence

Application Server provides the Java environment (OC4J),

scalability & availability

Fusion Middleware SOA Suite provides standards-based

Business Process management with BPEL, Enterprise Service

Bus, JDeveloper and XML

Foundation Pack provides model and governance

Process Integration Packs provides pre-built integrations


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Java and the Application Server

Application Server - Oracle 10g/11g J2EE 1.4 using a J2SE 5.0 Java Virtual Machine

JavaServer Pages (JSP), Servlets, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), Java

Message Service, J2EE Connector Architecture, Web services, and all

the underlying J2EE ser

vices for deployment, management transactionsandsecurity.

Object to Relational Mapping

Clustering for High Availability

Scheduler


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Fusion Middleware SOA Suite

BPA Suite

Analyst Tools

JDeveloper

Application

Development

Framework

TopLink

J2EE Application Server

JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, Oracle AS10g

Enterprise Service BusMulti-Protocol, XSLT/Transformation, Routing

Business Activity Monitoring

Events, Monitoring

BusinessIntelligenceAnalytics

EnterpriseManager

Monitoring

Web ServicesManager

Management&

Security

BPEL Process ManagerNative BPEL, Human Workflow,

Business Rules

Adapters

DBs

ODI

Bulk ETL

B2B

Partners

SES

RFID

Metadata

Repository


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Application Integration

E-Biz,

PeopleSoft,

Siebel,

Fusion Apps,

JD Edwards

PartnersE-Biz,

PeopleSoft,

Siebel

Customers

Vendors

LegacySystems

AI

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AI

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AI

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AIA

Foundation Pack


Fusion Middleware (SOA Suite)

Custom Integration


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Service Oriented Architecture

Software architectural approach based on industry standards Set of software tools for automating complex tasks involving people, multiple

applications, and outside organizations.

Uses building blocks called Services or Web Services

A Service is a discrete set of business or technical software functionality

Update Customer Address

Verify Credit Score Get Manager Approval

Orchestrated using the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)

Relies on Industry Standards (XML, BPEL, SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, WSIF)

Integrates Legacy systems as well as new

business applications into a seamless process

Includes Human Workflow to allow approvals and reviews Oracle provides it as the Fusion Middleware SOA Suite


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Basics of Extensible Markup Language

XML on of many Markup Languages (HTML)

Powerful because it contains data and a description of the data


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AIA Foundation Pack

Oracle integration Layer, built on Fusion Middleware SOAthat provides Architecture, Governance, Best Practices built

mostly with XML

Intended to help jump-start client SOA development

Prov

ides built-in Gov

ernance Provides a Framework for excellence

Addresses these current challenges to using SOA: Lack of Architectural Blueprint

Inconsistent Business Semantics

Lack of standardized Business Ser

v

ice Definitions Ensuring Compliance and Mitigating Risks

Doing More with Less


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Pre-built integration connections

Cross Application PIP

Siebel CRM to E-Business Suite

Industry Focused PIPs Communications (Siebel/EBS)

Life Sciences (Siebel/EBS)

Trade Promotion Management (Siebel)

Banking (Siebel/I-Flex)


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AIA Foundation PackDrill-Down

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Enterpri

se

Enterprise Artifacts Summary

Requesting

Application

Application

Business

Connector

Enterprise

Business

Enterprise Business Flow

Application

Business

Connector

Providing

Application

Transform Transform

Canonical Canonical

EBM EBM

EBM EBM

ABMABM


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Application Business Connectors


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Enterprise Business Messages


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AIA Enterprise Artifacts

Enterprise Business Objects A canonical logical data model based on industry best practices.

Describes attributes for Customer, Invoice, Inventory, Supplier, etc.

Enterprise Business Flows Pre-built BEPL business logic

Enterprise Business Services (2 Types) Entity focused on a single EBO provides CRUD (up to 7 methods

right now)

Process acts as a gate to an Enterprise Business Flow in BEPL

Enterprise Business Messages

Structured XML message for data interchange


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Enterprise Business Object

Provides a canonical view of key business objects


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Canonical.. what?

A "canonical data model" is a common data format that is used tocommunicate between different data formats. Each application converts its

data into the common data format which reduces the complexity of one to

many interfaces model.


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Enterprise Business Service

The Entity EBS exposes the

actions/methods one can

take against an Enterprise

Business O bject. If the

EBO is for a customer then

we could use the Entity EBSto:

1. Add a new customer

2. Update an existing

customer3. Query an existing

customer


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Enterprise Business Flows


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Enterprise Artifacts Summary

Requesting

Application

Application

Business

Connector

Enterprise

Business

Service

Enterprise Business Flow

Application

Business

Connector

Providing

Application

Transform Transform

Canonical Canonical

EBM EBM

EBM EBM

ABMABM


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Foundation Pack Features

30+ Enterprise Business Objects

Supports upgrades with Versioning

Supports Customizing and Extensions

Error Handling/Logging Framework Business Service Repository

Composite Application Validation System for testing end-to-

end

Foundation Pack Diagnostics


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Error Handling and Logging


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Foundation Pack Error Console

Provides a

centralized UI

for monitoring

errors thatoccur during

Business

Processing


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Business Service Repository

The AIA BSR

provides an

enterprise

HTML interface

for all

integration

repositories. It

extends the

capabilities ofthe SOA

Service Registry

and UDDI


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The Mother of All Repositories

The GOAL

The AIA

BusinessService

Repository will

aggregate

information

about all otherOracle and 3rd

Party interface

information


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CAVS

Composite Application Validation System is a SOA

integration testing work-bench

It provides A structured approach to testing integrations

The ability to unit test integrating components in isolation (like ABCServices and Participating Applications) and also in an end-to-end flow

The ability to substitute part of an integration scenario (like

participating applications alone or a Application business connector

service) with dummy applications aka Simulators


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CAVS Features

Create, Modify and Execute Test Definitions Create and Modify Simulator Definitions

Search for and Work with Test and Simulator Definitions

Search for and Work with Test and Simulator Instances

Create, Modify and Execute Group Definitions

Search for and Work with Group definitions and Instances Uses the database to:

Store all data related to the test/test group definitions

Store XPath and the XRef definition data (which is used by the test

definition to determine success criteria)

Store test instance data that is created when executing the test definitions

Record success/ failure of tests

Provide the ability to query test and simulator definitions. The relationships

between different definitions and instances is also maintained.


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AIA Diagnostics

Validates the SOA Suite Components

Validates the AIA installation/configuration

Validates AIA schema definitions

Future Validates third party Objects


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AIA Business Benefits


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AIA Business Benefits

Provides pre-built solutions or the foundation to custom buildsolutions

Focuses on configuration not programming

Oracle supported with Releases

Provides a framework for SOA maturity

Scalable and highly-available

Relies on industry standards

Framework for the Future (Fusion Apps)


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AIA Releases

Released Product which is installable on Windows and Linux Requires SOA 10.1.3.3 AIA 1.0Siebel CRM On Demand Integration Pack forOracle E-Business Suite

- ODS, On-Demand Sales- Siebel CRMOn-Demand Sales, FMW & EBS/Quoting

Siebel CRM Integration Pack forOracle Order Management- O2C, Order to Cash- Siebel CRM, FMW & EBS/Order Management

Siebel Call Center Integration Pack forOracle Adverse Event Reporting System

- Life Sciences (aka: LS, Adverse Event Reporting System(AERS) and/orPharmaceuticals)

- Siebel CRM, FMW & EBS/AERSSiebel CRM Integration Pack for Trade Promotion Management

- Trade, Trade Promotion Management (TPM)- Siebel CRM, FMW & EBS/Trade Management

AIA 2.0 Siebel CRM to Portal Billing - Siebel CRM, FMW, BRM & EBS/Oracle Financials Portal Billing to General Ledger - Siebel CRM, FMW, BRM & EBS/Oracle Financials

AIA 2.01 Foundation Pack released

Foundation Pack 2.1 - Release July 2008 Foundation Pack 2.2 Release August 2008


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Online Resources for AIA

OracleWiki for AIA

http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Application+Integration+Architecture

Release Documentation

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/intarch.html


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