Application Integration: EAI, B2B, BPM and SOA -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. What is Application Integration? -- 2.1. The economy: the "engine" of integration -- 2.2. The history and the issues of application integration -- 2.3. Consequences for IT -- 2.4. Integration typologies -- 2.4.1. Classifying the integration problem types -- 2.4.2. Classifying the applications -- 2.5. EAI: Integrating enterprise applications (A2A) -- 2.5.1. Accounting interpretation: EAI precursor -- 2.5.2. EAI today -- 2.6. Integrating inter-enterprise exchanges (B2B) -- 2.7. Coupling A2A and B2B: A2B (or Business Collaboration) -- 2.8. Managing business processes (BPM) -- 2.9. Service-oriented architectures (SOA) -- Chapter 3. Levels in Integration Services -- 3.1. Transport and connectivity -- 3.1.1. Defining partners -- 3.1.2. Data transport -- 3.1.3. Connectivity -- 3.1.4. Supervising transport -- 3.2. Adapting the information -- 3.2.1. Transformation -- 3.2.2. Routing -- 3.2.3. Storage -- 3.2.4. Defining the rules -- 3.2.5. Supervising exchanges -- 3.3. Automating business processes -- 3.3.1. Modeling business processes -- 3.3.2. Executing business processes -- 3.3.3. Supervising business processes -- 3.4. Business process and integration: mediation and exchange -- 3.4.1. Business process level and integration level -- 3.4.2. Mediation process sub-level -- 3.4.3. Exchange process sub-level -- 3.4.4. Interaction between the sub-levels -- 3.4.5. Interaction between integration and business process (BPM) -- 3.5. Choosing the exchange architecture -- 3.5.1. Synchronous/asynchronous communication -- 3.5.2. Architecture: centralized or distributed? -- Chapter 4. Types of Integration Projects -- 4.1. Integrating a single application -- 4.1.1. Exchange cartography -- 4.1.2. The integration platform.

4.2. IT infrastructure projects -- 4.2.1. Urbanization of information systems -- 4.2.2. IT exchange infrastructure -- 4.3. Integrating inter-enterprise exchanges -- 4.3.1. Exchanging electronic documents (EDI) -- 4.3.2. XML standards -- 4.3.3. Inter-enterprise "spaghetti" system -- 4.3.4. Inter-enterprise exchange platforms -- 4.3.5. "Single Window" initiatives -- 4.4. Managing business processes -- 4.4.1. Points of departure -- 4.4.2. BPM project opportunity: choosing the processes -- 4.4.3. The "top-down" approach -- 4.4.4. Expected results -- 4.5. Implementing a service architecture -- 4.5.1. Characteristics of an SOA -- 4.5.2. Elements of an SOA infrastructure -- 4.5.3. Applicable norms and standards -- Chapter 5. Application Integration Tools -- 5.1. Brokers -- 5.2. Application servers -- 5.3. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) -- 5.4. BPM tools -- Chapter 6. Understanding Integration Failures -- 6.1. High failure rates -- 6.2. The technological approach -- 6.2.1. New technology or new packaging? -- 6.2.2. Technology confronts reality -- Chapter 7. Integration Myths -- 7.1. The mirage of the single tool -- 7.1.1. A conservative choice: example and consequences -- 7.1.2. "Modern" architectural choice: example and consequences -- 7.2. XML: miracle format -- 7.3. Business adapters: simplifying the implementation -- 7.3.1. Business adapter: implementation - maintenance - problem -- 7.3.2. By way of a conclusion on business adapters -- 7.4. Java: the proof of a modern solution -- 7.4.1. The real reason for Java -- 7.4.2. Limitations of an all-Java integration solution -- 7.5. Files: the "poor cousins" of application integration -- 7.6. Process and services are everything -- 7.6.1. BPM and SOA: top-down approach - from business to IT -- 7.6.2. EAI and B2B: bottom-up approach - from IT to business -- 7.6.3. Complementary approaches.

Chapter 8. Integration and IT Urbanization -- 8.1. IT urbanization review -- 8.2. Limits of urbanization without an integration solution -- 8.3. How do integration solutions support IT urbanization? -- 8.4. Limits of integration solutions without IT urbanization -- 8.5. How does IT urbanization support integration solutions? -- 8.6. The need to correlate integration solutions and urbanization -- Chapter 9. Choosing an Application Integration Solution -- 9.1. General approach -- 9.2. Methodology for calculating return on investment (ROI) -- 9.2.1. Introduction to the method -- 9.2.2. Equations: maintaining the language of integration -- 9.2.3. Operational workload gains through centralized supervision -- 9.2.4. Quality of service improvements -- 9.3. Opportunity study -- 9.3.1. Analyzing the real needs of the enterprise -- 9.3.2. Real needs and the "state of the art" -- 9.3.3. Identifying possible business benefits -- 9.4. Go/NoGo from General Management -- 9.5. The search for a candidate: Request for Information (RFI) -- 9.5.1. Why issue an RFI? -- 9.5.2. Key points in an integration RFI -- 9.6. Request for Proposal (RFP) or specifications document -- 9.6.1. Interest and spirit of an RFP -- 9.6.2. Myths: standard questionnaire + one-stop supplier -- 9.6.3. Key points in an RFP for application integration -- 9.7. Presentations from the candidates -- Chapter 10. Deployment Methodology -- 10.1. Introduction to the method -- 10.2. Deployment methodology: general principles -- 10.3. Special case: deploying BPM and SOA -- 10.4. Economic models of cost allocation -- 10.4.1. Cost allocation linked to usage -- 10.4.2. Cost allocation linked to usage and services (developed model) -- Chapter 11. Operational Examples of Implementation -- 11.1. Rationalizing bonds purchase order management (banking) -- 11.1.1. The context -- 11.1.2. The choices.

11.1.3. The solution -- 11.1.4. The results -- 11.2. An EAI hub (telecommunications) -- 11.2.1. The context -- 11.2.2. The choice -- 11.2.3. Implementing the pilot: first difficulties -- 11.2.4. Integration tests: disturbing results -- 11.2.5. How did we end up here? Consequences of architectural choices -- 11.2.6. Performance tests: catastrophic results -- 11.2.7. Report card: final decision -- 11.2.8. The lesson: what we could have done -- 11.3. A2A and B2B (retail) -- 11.3.1. The context -- 11.3.2. The choice -- 11.3.3. The solution -- 11.3.4. The results -- 11.4. BPM and SOA in service delivery -- 11.4.1. The context -- 11.4.2. The choice -- 11.4.3. The solutions -- 11.4.4. The results -- 11.4.5. Points to watch for this type of solution -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.