Enterprise Service Bus Architectures

Paper Summary:

The paper examines how many business drivers that are influencing and growing the use of enterprise service bus (ESB) architectures throughout global manufacturing are also making it critical for manufacturers to take into account the need for greater synchronization of supply chains across the many sourcing, supply chain, manufacturing, fulfillment and service centers. The paper discusses how, over and above the need for manufacturers to synchronize these disparate, legacy and often non-integrated systems with enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain, distributed order management, and often, global customer relationship management (CRM) systems is the more fundamental challenge of turning all these systems into competitive advantages in the marketplace.

Outline:
Introduction
Table 1: Planning Web Services For Channels: Real-Time Versus Batch Integration
Figure 1: Manufacturer's dilemma regarding mass customization and channel implications of integration
Figure 2: An example of a Brokered ESB Pattern Model
Implications of Visualization Grids on ESB in Manufacturing
Figure 4: Combining BPEL4WP and Key Performance Indicator Financial Performance
Figure 5: An Example of a Manufacturing Dashboard
Figure 6: IBM WebSphere's' Hierarchical Model
ESB as the Catalyst for attaining The Perfect Order
Table 2: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Relative to The Perfect Order
Enterprise Service Bus Case Studies
Areas for Future Research
References

From the Paper:

"The logic of many global manufacturers is that while they are incurring the costs of attaining compliance to government regulations and standards for financial disclosure, they can at the same time completely re-define their IT strategies to better align with the needs of their business. In this regard many manufacturers today look to compliance as the impetus for change, and the primary reason to re-architecting how information technologies and services support making their organizations more agile and flexible."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Abrahams (2005) - Regulatory Compliance: Business Opportunity/Technical Challenge. Bloor Research. Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
• IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution (2006) - From the book of the same name. Authors Philip Monson, Katinka Kantor, Lee Barnes, Suzanne Minassian, Jennifer Bloom. IBM Corporation Redbooks Publishing. June, 2006. IBM Corporation.
• IBM Developer Roadmap (2006) - Part of the working series of BPEL Programming Standards and a specific roadmap on the technology of BPEL4WS as it relates to SOA: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/standards/
• Redbooks (2005) - Patterns: Integrating Enterprise Service Buses in a Service-Oriented Architecture. Martin Keen, Jonathan Bond, Jerry Denman, Stuart Foster, Stepan Husek, Ben Thompson, Helen Wylie. Published November 2005. IBM Corporation. Armonk, NY
• Redbooks (2004) - Patterns: Implementing an SOA Using an Enterprise Service Bus. Martin Keen, Jonathan Bond, Jerry Denman, Stuart Foster, Stepan Husek, Ben Thompson, Helen Wylie. Published July 2004. IBM Corporation. Armonk, NY

More papers on Enterprise Service Bus Architectures:

• Dissertation or Thesis # 92458 : "Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)"
• Analytical Essay # 136276 : "Service Oriented Architecture"
• Business Plan # 145598 : "Enterprise Rent-A-Car: A Training and Development Plan"

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