BPIOAI and Application Integration

BPIOAI is now a part of most application integration solutions. Once we understand how to connect any data and process point to any other data and process point, workflow will be the way the movement, or flow, of information is managed intra- or interenterprise.

Most application integration middleware vendors are shipping BPIOAI modeling tools to augment their existing middleware solutions. This is a step in the right direction. You may also purchase BPI tools that don't have canned interfaces to source or target systems, but rather require you to create the interfaces. Still, most client organizations will want to pick and choose from the best-of-the-breed solutions. In other words, they will want to mix and match middleware, adapters, and BPIOAI modeling tools. This is not possible today. However, once the industry responds with standard interfaces, definitions, and workflow engines, mixing and matching will be easily accomplished, and the ultimate solution to any particular problem domain will be well within reach.

The customization of BPIOAI models for particular vertical industries is another direction under development. For example, we can create models that define best practices in BPIOAI and integration within any set of banking systems because information moves in very similar ways within all banks (see Figure 3.13). Although sharable vertical-market process models are still a few years away, the potential benefit is plain.

Figure 3.13. BPIOAI models will eventually be shared across vertical industries.

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The question remains: How will the next-generation BPIOAI tools and technology add value to a typical enterprise or trading community? As businesses rapidly evolve over time, the need for flexible information movement and integrated infrastructures increases, moving from the information to the process level. Although state-of-the-art application integration solutions (such as integration brokers) provide flexible solutions today, a tremendous amount of work still remains to be done to bind systems together at the back end. Every time things change, similar "plumbing" work must be repeated. BPIOAI will provide the ultimate in flexibility because you, the user, will no longer have to address these issues of plumbing. Most of the complexity will be abstracted for you. This notion will define application integration as the technology moves forward.



Next Generation Application Integration(c) From Simple Information to Web Services
Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services
ISBN: 0201844567
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 220

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