EAI and WebServices development

N2N Services Inc.

Introduction to N2N's EAI efforts N2N's Integration successes Integration Partners and Providers AT&T CampusGuide project Drill-down on Academic History WebService iTransfer software (Western Governors

University) iAgent software (Georgian College) iTranscript application (National Student

Clearinghouse)

OpenEAI

Java

Oracle

iWay

Mule ESB

CastIron

Adobe Flex

Web Services can convert your applications into Web-applications.

Web Services are published, found, and used through the Web.

Web Services Components◦ Web services are application components◦ Web services communicate using open protocols◦ Web services are self-contained and self-describing◦ Web services can be discovered using UDDI◦ Web services can be used by other applications◦ XML is the basis for Web services

Basically Web services mitigate the application integration crisis. It helps integrating applications at a significantly lower price point than any other integration technology.

It’s a new kind of middleware based on XML and the Web. XML and the Web help solve the challenges associated with traditional application-to-application integration like heterogeneity. They are platform and language independent.

Web Services has following advantages:

◦ Exposing your API onto a network Connecting Different Applications◦ Low Cost of communication◦ Support for Loosely Coupled Applications◦ Web Services are Self Describing using WSDL◦ Automatic Discovery using UDDI◦ Business Opportunity to grow your business

AcademyOne, Inc., the OpenEAI Software Foundation, and N2N Services are working successfully with postsecondary institutions in the state of South Carolina under the aegis of the South Carolina Transfer and Articulation Center (SC TRAC) an initiative to increase student transfer success.

The goal of this project is to promote the deployment of web services that provide students access to their prior coursework within the context of other web applications and not just the Academic History Web Service.

The project will work to make all such services useful to the providers of these new student service applications using semantic web technologies for interoperability. However, there are simply no web services that make prior coursework available for many student information systems, and that is where the OpenEAI Academic History Web Service steps in to fill this gap.

iTransfer application allows universities to integrate transcripts from transfer students with school’s catalog and requirements

Adobe Flex based application that talks to the backend ERP database using WebServices

Some of the WebServices developed◦ PersonQueryService

◦ InstitutionQueryService

◦ AcademicHistoryUpdateService

◦ ..many others (over 75 services developed)

Adobe Flex application that integrates with ERP database through WebServices and EJBs

Services Admissions offices in Canada to manage recruiters spread throughout the world (Asia, Europe, Americas, Australia) and manage their contracts, commissions and payments

SAAS model for deployment

An Integration Services package that includes programs, graphical user interface, and custom database tables that will be installed in the school environment

The NSC Secure Connector package, a fully packaged Web server for consuming the incoming transcript request from the Clearinghouse and invoking a Web Service response back to the Clearinghouse. The connector provides the following:◦ Authenticating the incoming transcript request (verifying the

Clearinghouse digital signature)◦ Digitally signing the outgoing transcript order response (status

updates and/or and electronic PDF transcript for delivery)◦ Validating the XML request and response◦ Mapping the transcript request and response XML documents

to/from XML documents that the Integration Services understands◦ Interfacing with the Integration Services

N2N is working with Emory University to expose PeopleSoft data with Web Services

Project includes an open source request/reply and event notification service for institutions using PeopleSoft and documented techniques for linking this web service to PeopleSoft Integration Broker

Emory is developing student, finance, and identity integrations between PeopleSoft and Blackboard, Sciquest, Identity Management, and more

N2N and Emory are preparing to package this service and deliver installation and integration support for PeopleSoft sites

ESB

Message Transport

Routing

Transformatio

n

Logging

Proxy

ESB

Message Transport

Routing

Transformatio

n

Logging

Proxy

Portal (POC)

SA (opus)

HR

FIN

PeopleSoft

PS int. broker

Data Warehouse

(sample)

Hosted

On-demand

Services

Emory Shared Data (ESD)

Person

Identity

Service

iDXA Scanner

sonogram

Center for Health Discovery

Mirth HL7 int. eng.

Service

Locality

Directory

Network

Locator

Service

Center for Health Discovery

and Well Being

(CHD) database

Interfaces with PS Integration Broker to expose a PS data to other applications on the ESB or any application that can consume WSDL described web services

ESB or WS clients

SA (opus)

HR

FIN

PeopleSoft

PS int. broker

Integration

AT&T Campus Guide comes with support for major Higher Education ERPs on the market built using N2N’s SOA integration architecture. Our WebServices expose ERP and external data as JSONs, RSS feeds and XML support.

Marketing Support

1. Campus Guide installation toolkit offers various customizations specifically to suit your campus marketing needs.

Support for LMS Systems

AT&T Campus Guide product exposes LMS data (course notifications, assignments, grades and discussions) in a seamless fashion. Supports Single Sign-on between Directories, ERP and LMS platforms.

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Role: Dub Labs

By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets.

By 2014, social networking will replace e-mail as

the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20%of business users.

Within five years, 70 percent of collaboration and communications applications designed on PCs will be modeled after user experience lessons from Smartphone collaboration applications.

By 2014, there will be a 90% mobile penetration rateand 6.5 billion mobile connections.

By 2012, over 50 percent of enterprises will use activity streams that include blogs, micro-blogging and other social media tools.

By 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the

most common internet access device worldwide.

Source: Gartner Predictions 2010

Technology forces are quickly converging ◦ Internet

◦ Broadband Connectivity

◦ Wireless

◦ Mobile

◦ Web 2.0

◦ Cloud Computing

◦ Tablets

The “Business Effect”◦ A fundamental shift in how students learn will be

completely revamped in the coming years

◦ Virtual computing will be the new norm

Predictions:

1. Your new students are tech savvy

2. Productivity = Social Tools

3. Remote workers will dominate within companies

4. Cloud computing will refocus IT

The Future

No IT No Wires No Laptops

CloudComputing Tablets

SmartPhones

By default, users are taken to the enterprise home page. Every solution can be branded, configured and extended

to meet business needs.

Add your corporate logo

Create your navigational items

Keep in touch with what is going on in

your companyAdd a wallpaper or background

Track corporateconversations &

discussions

Set up group spaces for your dept’s & teams

Enterprise Social Layer: Integrated with SharePoint, CRM, ERP, ECM

Build Data Model

Robust model in Data

Warehouse

Setup ETL/Mappings Setup BI Tool

Design

Reports/Dashboards

Develop project plan

Interface/integration data dependencies◦ Conversion data dependencies

◦ Manually entered data

Create task list and assign responsibilities to team members

Design Common objects and services

Identify interfaces in each group/category

Develop interfaces as paradigms for other interfaces in the category