Integrating Data and Applications with Niku 6

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1 Integrating Data and Applications with Niku 6 Jeffrey A. Bloom VP Best Practices Ensol Software, Inc The Information Integration Company

2 (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 2 Why Integrate? Enhanced Productivity and Reach Improved Governance Compliance How to Integrate? Custom, point to point interfaces Avoiding the N2 Problem Ensuring operability EAI Challenges Leveraging Niku Integration

3 Ensol Software Certified Niku Integration Partner Developer of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) adapters & products: UDX/UAX - EAI Lite Peer EAI research and development Integration Services: Work with client to expose real requirements Leverage existing application synergies Architect to be flexible & robust Add usability features to help make tools accepted and productive enhancing ROI (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 3

4 (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 4 Why Integrate? Enhanced Productivity Less time spent Copying data between systems Reconciling conflicting data Reacting to changes in business environment Expanded Reach More interrelated data means Better decisions with deeper and broader foundation Leveraging internal & external data sources Exploiting partnership opportunities

5 (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 5 Why Integrate? Improved Governance Compliance Sarbanes-Oxley Requirements Officers & Directors personally liable Demonstrate robustness through Independent assessments Comparison with industry Best Practices Integration Imperatives Expose data and relationships Cross check internal systems external partners

6 (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 6 How to Integrate? Custom, point-to-point interfaces? Disparate systems not designed to exchange data or integrate an end-to-end business process Multi-vendors Customized applications Legacy Home-grown applications Further accentuated by Multi-environments Changes in technology Changes in Business Process SUPPLY CHAIN I2, MANINGISTICS CUSTOMER SAP PEOPLESOFT PARTNER EMPLOYEE Desktop Data Sources Legacy HomeGrown

7 (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 7 How to Integrate? Avoiding the N 2 Problem - EAI Enterprise Data Model Cross-application view Support for extended business process Only interface ONCE Adapters connect EAI to each application Integration Functions Parse understand data Format accommodate individual targets Route distribute based on business process rules SUPPLY CHAIN I2, MANINGISTICS EAI SYSTEMS TIBCO, NEON, SeeBeyond, UDX/UAX, etc. CUSTOMER SAP PEOPLESOFT CORPORATE APPLICATIONS AND DATABASES PARTNER Legacy HomeGrown EMPLOYEE Desktop Data Sources

8 (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 8 How to Integrate? Ensuring operability Is the data reasonable? How is the data related? How must it be formatted for other Applications? When is it necessary to send to where? How to audit and augment the solution?

9 How to Integrate? EAI Challenges Blending Technology Internal: Mergers & acquisitions External: Supply Chain/Partner integration Old and new technologies together Achieving Collaboration Custom applications & data interact with processes Synergies among applications Business process empowerment & optimization Return On Investment Justifying Integration for low contribution components Supporting high purchase & maintenance costs $184 billion spent creating interfaces and integrating applications source: Dataquest (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 9

10 Leveraging Niku Integration Objectives Integrity Maintain consistency throughout Effectiveness Optimize decisions by having most complete view of situation Productivity Eliminate manual double entry Eliminate manual conflict resolution Maximize resource utilization (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 10

11 (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 11 Leveraging Niku Integration Typical Integration Opportunities Help Help Desk Desk Work Work Request Request Skills Skills Inventory Inventory Projects Niku Niku Resources Time ERP ERP Financials Cost Centers Projects Time Reporting Human Resources People + info Reporting Reporting System System Document Document Management Management A single vision for: activities, resources & finances

12 (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 12 Leveraging Niku Integration Operating Management - ERP Financial Human Resources Skills Initiatives Work Requests Help Desk Strategic Planning/Budget Knowledge Management Enterprise Business Intelligence Reporting Best Practices Collaboration Document Management

13 (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 13 Leveraging Niku Integration Integration Challenges Data Integration Challenge: Disparate databases, schemas Vision: Common repository of data Reach: Interface with multiple external applications/entities Collaboration: Sharing data across application boundaries Data Integrity: Preservation of consistency Process Integration Synchronization: Process Integration among applications Process Integrity: Process flow business rules enforced Middleware: Provide explicit process and rules engine Content Integration Access, Delivery, Aggregation, Exchange Web Content Management/Enterprise Portal

14 (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 14 Leveraging Niku Integration Enterprise Application Integration Projects Niku Niku Resources Time Reporting Reporting System System Help Help Desk Desk Work Work Request Request Document Document Management Management Skills Skills Inventory Inventory ERP ERP Financials Cost Centers Projects Time Reporting Human Resources People + info Adaptor Adaptor Adaptor Adaptor Adaptor Adaptor Adaptor Enterprise Application Integration Infrastructure Connect via transport Functional Business Process Model

15 (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 15 The Integration Life Cycle Process Process: Understand the how it works Discover: What is available Select: What portion is relevant Extract: What to keep Map: How to format Transform: Format for delivery Migrate/Integrate: Instrument the solution to achieve the promised benefits

16 (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 16 Traditional EAI Typical EAI packages interface Enterprise Application packages (ERP, CRM, SRM) Legacy customer applications Edge systems that provide unique point solutions Enterprise Application Web Server EAI Legacy Application Enterprise Application Transaction Server parse Transform Route Point Edge Application EAI packages still require architecting the solution

17 (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 17 Peer EAI Napster s success has firmly established the Peer-to-Peer Paradigm Distributed architecture has no single point of failure Peer networking leverages the robustness of Internet technology Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)/eXtensible Markup Language (XML) Universal Directory Discovery Interface (UDDI) Web Services Description Language Enterprise Application Web Server Peer EAI LDAP Peer EAI Legacy Application Enterprise Application Transa ction Peer EAI Internet Peer EAI Point Edge Application Peer Enterprise Application Integration (peai) architecture leverages the universality and robustness of Peer-to-Peer networking to provided Distributed EAI

18 (c) 2003 Ensol Software, Inc., all rights reserved 18 ENSOL & Integration Integration Tools, Solutions And Services To Simplify Information Integration Provide Fast, Easy, Scaleable And Secure Tools Provide Methodology In A Box To Provide On-time, On-budget Delivery Of Integration Deliverables Use State-of-the-art Web Services Technology For Integration