EAI TOOLS

This two-day course provides a solid grounding in the fundamental principles of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). The course offers a wide-ranging perspective on the challenges facing EAI, as well as the strategies and technologies that can help it succeed. It presents an unbiased overview of the different technologies, architectures, and approaches available for enterprise application integration (EAI) implementation, offering pros and cons, clear explanations of concepts, and guidance on how to choose the best EAI strategy your organization.

o Understand the business and application integration
o Understand enterprise integration
o Learn all about middleware, EAI and Web services
o Review EAI architecture and interoperability of legacy, COTS, client-server and modern technology applications
o Review the implementation technologies, including CORBA/MDA, EJB/J2EE, DCOM/.NET and Web services
o Understand how EAI can be used to seamlessly to integrate back-end applications and Web
o Explore project planning process of EAI
o Review successful EAI deployments
o Step through a practical process for managing a EAI project

o Evolution
o Traditional Systems
o Distributed Systems
o Packaged Applications
o Enterprise Integration
o Role of Middleware
o Types of Application Integration
o Information-Oriented
o Business Process Integration-Oriented
o Service-Oriented
o Portal-Oriented
o What is an Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)?
o Making the Business Case for Middleware and EAI
o Types of EAIs and Middleware
o Process Automation-Oriented
o Transaction-Oriented
o Distributed Object-Oriented
o Importance of the Architecture
o Importance of Application Design
o EAI and Middleware
o EAI and B2B
o EAI and Workflows
o EAI and BPM

o Frameworks
o EAI Approaches
o Data-Level EAI
o Message-Level
o Process-Level
o Application Interface-Level EAI
o User Interface-Level EAI
o Leveraging Frameworks for EAI

o Communication Middleware Layer
o Message-Oriented Middleware (MOMs)
o Message Brokers
o Integration Brokers
o Process Brokers
o Application or Transaction Servers
o Web-driven Application Integration
o Integrating Applications: A Working Methodology
o Technical foundation of Middleware

o Point-to-Point Middleware
o Many-to-Many Middleware
o Synchronous versus Asynchronous
o Connection-Oriented and Connectionless
o Direct Communication
o Queued Communication
o Publish/Subscribe
o Request Response

o Middleware as the Engine of EAI
o What's Middleware?
o Types of Middleware
o Transactional Middleware and EAI
o RPCs, Messaging, and EAI
o MOMs and Message Brokers
o TP monitors
o Application Servers
o Integration Servers
o Distributed Objects and EAI
o Database-Oriented Middleware and EAI
o Java Middleware and EAI
o XML and EAI
o Importance of Message Brokers
o Message Translation Layer
o MOMs and Message Brokers
o Schema and Data Conversions
o Intelligent Routing
o Rules Processing
o Message Warehousing
o Repository Services
o Graphical User Interface (GUI)
o Directory Services
o Management
o Adapters
o Technology
o Standard
o Application
o Custom
o The Future of EAI and Brokers

o EAI Architecture
o EAI Implementation Steps
o Selecting the Right Middleware
o EAI Solution Evaluation Methodology
o Packaged Applications Implementing and Integrating Workflow Management an BPM
o Applying EAI to Packaged Applications
o Integrating SAP R/3
o Integrating PeopleSoft
o Integrating Siebel
o Automation and EAI
o Foundation of Process Automation?
o Process Automation and EAI Levels
o Implementing Process Automation
o Workflow and BPM Standards
o Example of Workflow Management Systems
o Project Management
o Moving from Information-Oriented to Service-Oriented Application Integration
o Web Services
o SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI