Impact of Business Problem Characteristics on the Architecture and Specification of Integration Framework

Monika Tsaneva,S Kouzmanov

doi:10.13189/csit.2016.040102

Abstract

Modern enterprise information environments usually host a lot of different software systems that are involved in a wide range of business tasks and operations. For a successful usage of the whole heterogeneous information environment of an enterprise, the integration framework used to connect different software systems should take into account the specifics of the business problem and scope. Different needs can vary a lot, but still they can be generalized into larger groups of common integration and data processing problems. This can be used as a foundation for researching the impact of business problems and needs on an integration frameworks used into and enterprise. This paper uses a brief, general classification of business problems and proposes a mapping between business needs and integration approaches.

Highlights

Nowadays the implementation and execution of an enterprise business is becoming more and more complex
Since various applications that should be interconnected by the integration framework are deployed in different business problem context, the way they are integrated with other applications can be affected by the type of business needs they solve
After we have identified some different business problems and needs, we made a quick comparison of real time and batch processing and we looked through different integration approaches

Summary

Introduction

Nowadays the implementation and execution of an enterprise business is becoming more and more complex. With the process of globalisation, expansion to new markets, introducing new products and services and with the advance of business oriented information technology, organisations increased their need for fast and accurate information processing. This includes an increase in data volumes to be processed and a diversification in types of business problems and needs. Modern organisations have complex, heterogeneous information environments and application infrastructures. This leads to a constant need for development of an enterprise-wide integration frameworks. Since various applications that should be interconnected by the integration framework are deployed in different business problem context, the way they are integrated with other applications can be affected by the type of business needs they solve

Different Business Problems and Needs

Real Time and Batch Data Processing

Different Integration Approaches

Mapping between Different Problems and Integration Approaches

Conclusions