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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
VoIP/SOA IntegrationImpact on IT Apps, Processes, & Overall Business
Transformation
Alan RosenbergDirector of Product Management
www.bluenotenetworks.com
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
Voice and IT Are Separate Islands
• Monolithic PBXs • Proprietary provisioning systems• Static users, stationary phones
Voice World IT World
• Unix or Windows Servers • Active Directory, RADIUS, LDAP• Mobile, Internet-based workforce
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
VoIP Delivers Limited Convergence
• VoIP offers network layer convergence, but – Separate management & provisioning systems
• Different tools & staff
– Monolithic IP PBXs• Outside realm of datacenter
– Limited APIs• TAPI, JTAPI
• Vendor specific
– How can telephony services deliver value to business processes?
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
Service Oriented Architectures
• Enterprise IT trend towards SOAs– Business process improvement top CIO priority
– SOAs drive business process improvements
– 25% of US organizations have already deployed SOA – 2006 Evans Data Study
– 78% adoption in banking industry – 2006 Gartner
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
Evolving to Service Orientation
BusinessLogic
Legacy ERP CRM Finance
BusinessLogic
BusinessLogic
BusinessLogic
New Business Processes
BusinessLogic
Legacy ERP CRM Finance
BusinessLogic
BusinessLogic
BusinessLogic
Business Services
Business functionality buried in applications, asset silos … proprietary interfaces serving
the silos
Business functionality exposed as business services … standards-based, shared &
reusable services
Application, Asset Silos Service-Oriented Applications, Assets
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
SOA Technical Benefits
• Application de-coupling– Changes in one service do not effect other services
• Location transparency– Support virtual hardware environments
• Code reuse– Single service used by many applications
• Platform independence– Single development effort yields multi-platform support
• Standards based solution– Supported by multiple vendors and technologies
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
SOA Business Benefits
• Reduced time to market– Faster product and service delivery
• Business agility – Rapidly respond to business changes
• Lower development costs– Eliminate redundant development efforts
• Improve productivity– Increase automation
– Reduce process steps
• IT asset reuse– Leverage existing systems
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
Voice as a Web Service
BusinessLogic
Legacy ERP CRM Finance
BusinessLogic
BusinessLogic
BusinessLogic
Business Processes
Business Services
Internet
PSTN
PBX
Deliver Voice as a reusable Web Service in
an SOA
Business Communications
Platform
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
Business Communications Platform
• Delivers voice as an IT application– Executes voice services on datacenter servers
• Improved economics
– Leverages IT management infrastructure and staff• Active Directory, RADIUS, LDAP, etc
– No monolithic PBX
– SOA-ready
• Enables voice service/business process integration– Add voice services to business applications
– Drive business logic into call processing
– Correlate session and application data
• Interworks with external networks and services– PBXs, PSTN, Internet/SIP-based networks, services and devices
– Non-disruptive, incremental expansion
– Extended enterprise: customers, partners, employees
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
Business Communications Platform
• Abstraction layer– Simplifies software
development
– Eliminates SIP/Telecom proficiency needs
– Shortens project cycles
– Reduces costs
CreateSession(A, B)
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
Financial Services Compliance Interception
Analyst
Compliance
Agent
Business Communications
Platform
PBX
Call Routing Service
BrokerPSTN
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
Financial ServicesStock Notification Service
Analyst
Compliance
Agent
PBX
Call Routing Service
Customer
Internet
Call me on mobile when PowerCo hits $100
Web Site
Customer Database
BrokerPSTN
Stock Service
Business Communications
Platform
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
Financial ServicesStock Notification Service
Broker
Analyst
Compliance
Agent
PSTNPBX
Call Routing Service
Customer
Internet Web Site
Customer Database
PowerCo at $100. Press 1 to sell…
Stock Service
Business Communications
Platform
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
Financial ServicesClick-to-talk
Broker
Analyst
Compliance
Agent
PSTN
PBX
Call Routing Service
Customer
Customer Service Agent
CRM
Internet
Click-Talk
Web Site
Customer Database
Stock Service
Business Communications
Platform
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
Voice as a Web Service Benefits
• Business agility– One service reused by multiple applications
– Rapid application development and deployment
– Lower cost
– No telephony expertise
• Leverage existing infrastructure – Exploit datacenter servers
– Share business logic and policy stores
– Combine IT/Telecom operations tools and staff
– Leverage incumbent Telecom infrastructure
– Extend legacy systems
– Incrementally deployed
• Improve service and product revenues– Increased customer reach
– Increased customer satisfaction and retention
– New products and services
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
Business Communications PlatformConsiderations
• Distributed, software-based solution– Run voice services on datacenter servers
– Leverage IT operations infrastructure • Active Directory, RADIUS, LDAP, etc
– Support IT SOA standards and initiatives
• Rich, flexible programming interfaces– Abstract programming layer
– Integrated business logic and call processing
– Session and application data correlation
• Standards-based and interoperable– PBXs, PSTN, Internet/SIP-based networks
– SIP handsets and soft phones
– NAT & FW traversal solutions
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October 10-13, 2006• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California
Q&A
Alan RosenbergDirector of Product Management
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