SONIC-4: DataXtend ™ Semantic Integrator ™ A Babel Fish for Your ESB Dave Cornelius Sr. Manager, Product Development, ACC Capital Holdings John Dalton.

SONIC-4: DataXtend™ Semantic Integrator™ A Babel Fish for Your ESB

Dave CorneliusSr. Manager, Product Development, ACC Capital Holdings

John DaltonPrincipal Product Manager, Progress DataXtend

© 2007 Progress Software Corporation2 SONIC-4: DataXtend Semantic Integrator

Agenda

Babel fish? What is DXSI? ACC Capital Holdings profile The business problem Why was DXSI chosen? The result Q&A

DataXtend Semantic Integrator: A Babel Fish for Your ESB


What the heck is a Babel fish?

“The Babel fish is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it.

… The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any

form of language.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy




Solving the “point-to-point” transformation problem

Why would I want a Babel fish for my ESB?

Sonic ESB® eliminates the rigidity and fragility of point-to-point connections

How do I solve the similar problem in my data model transformations?

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Why Semantic Integration?

How do I “operationalize” industry standard data models to drive system integration?

How do I manage change to the data models used in my services and data sources?

How do I manage “data in motion” to respond to demands for real time information?

How do I onboard new vendor partners in days instead of weeks?

How do I make the data models in my environment as loosely coupled as SOA has made my services?

How do I reduce the effort to integrate new applications by 50% or more?


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Common model management

You need a Babel fish!

Rapidly create common data model from any number of schema• Design mappings in Eclipse-based Workbench

Common model mediates transformations Deployed and managed as an ESB service

• Java-based validation and transformation• Regenerated if schema or common model change

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Visual tool for designing integration

Stateless for scalability

Runs in any Java container

Connects to any bus

DataXtend Semantic Integrator

Runs in Eclipse

Product Capabilities

DISTRIBUTEDRUNTIME

CENTRALIZEDDESIGN

GenerateDeploy

TESTING



Centralized design

Map Once to Common Model



Centralized design

Visualize Large, Complex Models



Centralized design

Create Visual Mappings to and from

the common model



Contact

Mobile

Type = Home

Type = Work

Type = Mobile

TelephoneCustomer

Centralized design

Virtual attributes simplify models

without deviating from the standard



Centralized design

Multiple addresses required for a service

move



Testing



Deployment and impact analysis

Impact Analysis Report – Details how information is used in addition to where it is used


Credit Mappings in DXSI

IntegrationProjects

PropertySheet

Main Panel

Editor, Impact Analysis, Tester

ModelOverview


MISMO - OAGIS Credit Response Class Maps


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Ameriquest Mortgage Company

Situation One of the largest mortgage companies, originates

and services home mortgage loans through more than 280 branch offices across the United States. Ameriquest and its affiliates employ more than 17,000 associates nationwide.

Grew from 35,600 loans in 2000 to 118,900 loans in 2003. Increased loan volume from $3.7 billion in 2000 to $17.8 billion in 2003.

Need to rapidly rollout new mortgage products in response to changes in interest rates and market conditions.

New loan origination system deployment required scalability, reliability, and flexibility beyond that of available with existing SOA infrastructure built on BEA WebLogic.

Mortgage origination system SOA infrastructure


VMS R&R Overview

VMS R&R provides: • B2B integration with business partners (Credit, AVM,

Title, etc.) to complete loan origination for Ameriquest & Argent Mortgage.

Implements a SOA approach using: • Sonic ESB• DataXtend Semantic Integrator• OAGIS – Open Application Group Integration

Specification BOD XML business messages • MISMO – Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance

Organization XML standard for data exchange with business partners

Vendor Management System Request & Response


Credit

LOS (Loan Origination

System)

POS (Point of Sale)

Legal Printing

Appraisal

Title

Verification of Employment/

Income

Insurance

Legal

Capital Markets

VMS R&R

VMS R&R (Vendor Management System Request & Response) Service Context Diagram

Transformation with DataXtend

Message Routing with Sonic ESB

VMS R&R Context Diagram

Vendor Management

System Request & Response


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Problem Statement

Unable to deliver a B2B integration with our business partners that was acceptable to our business users

Monthly run rate was approx. $250K-$500K Required 14 resources to deliver 4 out of 14

B2B integrations Average time to market was 4 months per

integration


Success Criteria

Project Requirements• Reduce cost of ownership• Improve time to market

Business Drivers• Reduce head count• Improve business users and partners satisfaction• Automate the development process and generate code• Establish common and repeatable method to

implement each integration• Allow the business system analyst (BSA) to drive

development process• Validate quality early in the process (QA)


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Proof of Concept

Learning curve was low, BSA became primary user BSA drove the development process Generated consistent stateless JAVA™ code and

required minimum coding QA participated early in the process Passed performance test criteria Deployment to our environments was painless Integrated seamlessly with Sonic ESB

VMS R&R and DataXtend Marriage


Selling the Organization

Business Users• Faster implementation time• Flexible and adaptable to user changes

CFO• Product ROI: 1 month

CIO• Reduced development cost benefits:

– Reduced resources required to create XML transformations– Reduced time to produce XML transformations

• Improved quality benefits:– Fewer defects, resulting in less rework– Fewer incidents, resulting in less maintenance & support costs – Reduced time spent handling customer complaints

Architects & Software Engineers• More time working on interesting projects; less time on XSLT

Addressing constituent concerns


VMS R&R Architecture

Product specific data service implementations. A

data service can perform validation, transformation

or other data manipulation.

This is a façade for all DXSI

services. This and the product

specific data services can be deployed on the same container

instance as VMS.


Credit

LOS (Loan Origination

System)

POS (Point of Sale)

Legal Printing

Appraisal

Title

Verification of Employment/

Income

Insurance

Legal

Capital Markets

VMS R&R

VMS R&R (Vendor Management System Request & Response) Service Context Diagram

Transformation with DataXtend

Message Routing with Sonic ESB

VMS R&R Credit Check Flow

Vendor Management

System Request & Response

1. Credit Check Order Placed

2. Validate Credit Order Request

3. Map Credit Order Request

4. Credit Vendor Request

5. Credit Vendor Response

6. Validate Credit Order Response

7. Map Credit Order Response

8. Credit Check Complete


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VMS R&R and DataXtend Results

Reduced from 14 to 4 resources• 300% improvement

Cost of ownership reduced from $250K to $20k• 1250% improvement

Time to market now 2-4 weeks from 14 weeks• 400% improvement

Implemented all 14 integrations• Completed the 10 outstanding integrations

Became more flexible and agile; Capable of adapting to the business change requests

Demonstrated a successful SOA implementation


In Summary

Eliminates the semantic mismatch between services in SOA

Reduces the time-to-market for adopting industry data models like OAGIS, MISMO

Dramatically reduces the cost of service development and on-going maintenance of SOA projects

Is vital part of keeping SOA agile for future change

DataXtend Semantic Integrator at ACC Capital Holdings


Questions?

For more information

Visit us in the Expo

or

www.progress.com/dataxtend

For a 30 day evaluation


SONIC-4: DataXtend ™ Semantic Integrator ™ A Babel Fish for Your ESB Dave Cornelius Sr. Manager, Product Development, ACC Capital Holdings John Dalton.

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