Using Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) — design patterns for the integration of enterprise applications — can help solve several recurring problems that haunt IT staffs, including filtering of special parts of messages, splitting of messages in several parts, and collecting messages according to determined aspects and sending them in a bundle. This book lays out the strategies, approaches, and planning required to efficiently use EIP. It then goes one step further, presenting the twelve most important patterns for the integration of heterogeneous services, applications, and systems with SAP NetWeaver PI. Based on specific, real-life problems, the authors identify the appropriate Enterprise Integration pattern and then show, in detail, how to implement it for SAP NetWeaver PI. And that's just for starters... Critical software components and examples used in the book are available for download on our Website!

The success of companies depends on the speed of implementing their business model innovations. Innovating a business model is relatively easy - Osterwalder BMC can be applied. In order to continuously align the business model innovations with E2E processes, ICT template solutions and organizational performance metrics the ADM Business Transformation (BT) lifecycle can help. This book shows use cases within companies like Philips, ERIKS, Unilever, Achmea and Friesland Campina. Furthermore, SAP explains how Business Process Management and Internet of Things can enhance business innovations. This book provides information on how to set up an BT roadmap using best practices, how to define the governance model and determine ROI. The BT lifecycle can help to improve the organizational agility, optimizing the project portfolio and reducing the complexity of the ERP template, thereby increasing the success rate of digital business transformation projects within the operational processes. Look at preview!

The success of companies depends on the speed of implementing their business model innovations. Innovating a business model is relatively easy - Osterwalder BMC can be applied. In order to continuously align the business model innovations with E2E processes, ICT template solutions and organizational performance metrics the Business Transformation (BT) lifecycle can help. This book shows use cases within companies like Philips, ERIKS, Unilever, Achmea and Friesland Campina. Furthermore, SAP explains how Business Process Management and Internet of Things can enhance business innovations. This book provides information on how to set up an BT roadmap using best practices, how to define the governance model and determine ROI. The BT lifecycle can help to improve the organizational agility, optimizing the project portfolio and reducing the complexity of the ERP template, thereby increasing the success rate of digital business transformation projects within the operational processes. Look at preview!

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and applications, ECMFA 2013, held in Montpellier, France, in July 2013. The 15 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. They are on all aspects of MDE, including topics such as model querying, consistency checking, model transformation; and model-based systems engineering and domain-specific modeling.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 29th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 2013, held in Oxford, UK, in July 2013. The 20 revised full papers, presented together with three keynote talks, two tutorials, and one panel session, were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. Special focus of the conference has been "Big Data" and so the papers cover a wide range of topics such as query and update processing; relational storage; benchmarking; XML query processing; big data; spatial data and indexing; data extraction and social networks.

"SAP's integration technologies are now combined-but what is the SAP Integration Suite, and how do you use it to manage an integrated enterprise landscape? In this book, get the answers to these questions and more as you take a tour of the new suite. Then get step-by-step instructions for using key capabilities such as pre-packaged integrations, open APIs, integration scenarios, the integration advisor, and more. Master the complete integration suite!"--

The objective of this tutorial is to make you understand - what is SAP Process Integration? We will not go into the nitty-gritty of the subject but we will discuss the architecture and different features of SAP PI. We will cover the basic features only and will avoid discussing all features in this tutorial.Next there are a set of case studies which will give you an idea about the industry level utilization of SAP PI. Once you get more acquainted with the subject, you should try to solve them. The test cases are prepared in a manner so that it will take you down into the subject from simple to more complexes with each lesson and will give you an overall idea of the subject.

Are you ready for the next generation of SAP Process Integration? Meet SAP Process Orchestration! This is your complete guide to the tools and components of SAP PO. Learn how to build and configure interfaces, and then use SAP BPM to manage your business processes. Thanks to both a practical and comprehensive approach, you'll find out how to configure the System Landscape Directory, create an iFlow, monitor message processing, create BPM processes, and so much more. Advanced Adapter Engine Extended (AEX)Learn how to configure and work with the System Landscape Directory, Enterprise Service Repository, the Integration Directory, and message processing. SAP Business Process ManagementHere's your guide to everything SAP BPM: perform administration tasks, learn how to automate business processes, and build human-centric and system-centric processes from scratch. MigrationIf you haven't switched from SAP Process Integration to SAP Process Orchestration, chances are you will soon. Get ahead by learning what changes are coming, and benefit from practical information about migrating business processes. Highlights: Administration and development tools System Landscape Directory Enterprise Service Repository Integration Directory iFlow Advanced Adapter Engine Extended (AEX) Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) SAP Business Rule Management Java proxies Monitor business processes

The Only Complete Technical Primer for MDM Planners, Architects, and Implementers Companies moving toward flexible SOA architectures often face difficult information management and integration challenges. The master data they rely on is often stored and managed in ways that are redundant, inconsistent, inaccessible, non-standardized, and poorly governed. Using Master Data Management (MDM), organizations can regain control of their master data, improve corresponding business processes, and maximize its value in SOA environments. Enterprise Master Data Management provides an authoritative, vendor-independent MDM technical reference for practitioners: architects, technical analysts, consultants, solution designers, and senior IT decisionmakers. Written by the IBM ® data management innovators who are pioneering MDM, this book systematically introduces MDM’s key concepts and technical themes, explains its business case, and illuminates how it interrelates with and enables SOA. Drawing on their experience with cutting-edge projects, the authors introduce MDM patterns, blueprints, solutions, and best practices published nowhere else—everything you need to establish a consistent, manageable set of master data, and use it for competitive advantage. Coverage includes How MDM and SOA complement each other Using the MDM Reference Architecture to position and design MDM solutions within an enterprise Assessing the value and risks to master data and applying the right security controls Using PIM-MDM and CDI-MDM Solution Blueprints to address industry-specific information management challenges Explaining MDM patterns as enablers to accelerate consistent MDM deployments Incorporating MDM solutions into existing IT landscapes via MDM Integration Blueprints Leveraging master data as an enterprise asset—bringing people, processes, and technology together with MDM and data governance Best practices in MDM deployment, including data warehouse and SAP integration

This volume contains the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2005), organized by LORIA in Nancy, France, September 5–8, 2005. This year, BPM included several innovations with respect to previous e- tions, most notably the addition of an industrial program and of co-located workshops. This was the logical result of the signi?cant (and still growing) - dustrial interest in the area and of the broadening of the research communities working on BPM topics. The interest in business process management (and in the BPM conference) was demonstrated by the quantity and quality of the paper submissions. We received over 176 contributions from 31 countries, accepting 25 of them as full papers (20 research papers and 5 industrial papers) while 17 contributions were accepted as short papers. In addition to the regular, industry, and short pres- tations invited lectures weregiven by Frank Leymannand Gustavo Alonso.This combination of research papers, industrial papers, keynotes, and workshops, all of very high quality, has shown that BPM has become a mature conference and the main venue for researchers and practitioners in this area. We would like to thank the members of the Program Committee and the reviewers for their e?orts in selecting the papers. They helped us compile an excellent scienti?c program. For the di?cult task of selecting the 25 best papers (14% acceptance rate) and 17 short papers each paper was reviewed by at least three reviewers (except some out-of-scope papers).