Interstage Service Integrator - Fujitsu's Enterprise Service Bus

Overview

Key to success in every Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation is a high performance, flexible Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The ESB provides the technical infrastructure to link and orchestrate disparate business processes in the most timely and efficient manner, ensuring maximum business agility to the enterprise.

Issues Affecting Enterprises
All enterprises have a multitude of IT systems and applications to meet their varied and growing business requirements. Each of these individual systems and applications have their own way of storing and exchanging business data. Business processes span multiple applications and integrating them to facilitate flow of information create their own challenges.
Typical problems encountered by enterprises include the below:
(1) Small changes to the data format or interfaces in one system require changes in the other systems
(2) New applications cannot be easily integrated into the existing infrastructure without disrupting IT operations
(3)It is difficult to fully leverage the existing business value from legacy applications and link this data with newer technologies.

Interstage Service Integrator help enterprises resolve these issues.

Interstage Service Integrator (ISI) utilizes industry standard technologies like Web Services, JMS, and FTP to facilitate the collaboration of enterprise applications and services. Interstage Service Integrator helps resolve integration related issues by:

• Providing the tools to SOA-enable existing applications (step-by-step approach)
  It is un-realistic to rebuild entire systems, specially those that consist of many sub systems and complicated interfaces. ISI provides interface adaptors (CORBA, MessageQueueDirector, File transportation etc) which allow organizations to wrap around existing sub systems, making it possible to integrate multiple applications, enabling a step by step approach for business integration.
• Standardizing interfaces within the IT architecture to build agile enterprise
  Enterprises need to move rapidly to adapt to the changing market dynamics. They should be in a position to constantly add new applications and modify existing business processes. By standardizing interfaces between sub-systems, ISI ensures that, not only can new applications be easily integrated into business processes, but existing business processes can also be easily changed. ISI’s adoption of standard interfaces including Web Services, HTTP/SOAP and Java Messaging Services (JMS) makes this possible. ISI also provides tools for format conversion between differing message formats (such as converting data to and from XML and non-XML formats) as well as the ability to combine multiple messages into a single transaction and vice versa.