Green(er) Computing

Matthew Kummell

Description

• cours - matière potentielle : district

Green(er) Computing • Steve Young, CTO, Judson ISD • Green Computing Think Tank San Antonio, Texas, 9/17/2009

• public school district
• district money on acquisition
• computing steps
• sets for an additional 2283 computing seats
• shutdown of most district computers
• recycling of technology assets
• technology

Sujets

• District
• Bexar County
• Computing
• Shutdown
• Technology
• Public
• Recycling

Informations

• Publié par: epsa0
• Nombre de lectures: 13
• Langue: English

Extrait

Integration Technologies of
PeopleSoft Enterprise
Making the Real-Time Enterprise a
Reality

PeopleSoft Technology Whitepaper • June 2004© 2004 by PeopleSoft, Inc.

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PeopleSoft Proprietary and Confidential Page 2 Integration Technologies of
PeopleSoft Enterprise

Overview
This white paper provides an overview of PeopleSoft Enterprise Integration and
its supporting technologies. It is intended for both technical and non-technical
readers. Most of the technologies covered in this paper were first available with
PeopleTools 8.1; the topics in this white paper are as of PeopleTools 8.45.
This paper contains the following sections:
Integration Technologies of PeopleSoft Enterprise.......................................1
Overview.......................................................................................................3
PeopleSoft Integration Philosophy................................................................4 ntegration Offerings...................................................................6
The PeopleSoft Integration Broker8
Application Messaging................................................................................11
Component Interfaces .................................................................................17
File Interfaces..............................................................................................21
Java Integration ...........................................................................................23
Summary and Benefits25

PeopleSoft Proprietary and Confidential Page 3
PeopleSoft Integration Philosophy
Clearly, business today involves working much closer with customers, partners,
and suppliers; interactions that are enhanced through the timely delivery of
mission critical information. The challenge is in implementing this new real-
time enterprise in today’s complex IT environments. Historically there has been
a tendency to implement new solutions in a haphazard way – solving urgent
business problems with little or no concern for the wider enterprise requirements.
Unfortunately, this has left enterprises with a myriad of necessary and disparate
systems, all operating in different environments, using differing protocols and
running without regard to their effects on the rest of the enterprise.
We have two options when confronting this problem: we can assume that a
standard will be in place soon to bring together all systems and data, or we can
operate as if a single standard will never become a reality. Given the history of
information technology, and the fact that much of the value in an organization’s
systems resides in legacy environments which will never be rewritten or wholly
replaced, it seems as if we are left with the reality that change is the only certain
path. No single panacea, no magical standard, will address the heterogeneity and
competing standards that always accompany change.
This is not to say that some standards have not taken hold and prove extremely
valuable in your move to the real-time enterprise; primarily, internet standards
such as HTTP, HTML, and Web services standards such as Extensible Markup
Language (XML), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and Web Services
Description Language (WSDL). One can quickly grasp the power of standards
when you remember the tremendous growth in the internet which occurred over
such a short period of time due to a consistent client interface (HTML and a
browser) and a standardized communication vehicle (HTTP).
Seeing the potential in the internet, PeopleSoft was the first ERP vendor to adopt
a Pure Internet Architecture. This allowed users, both internal and external, to
interact with the software through a standard web browser, without any custom
software needed on the users computer.
PeopleSoft has been leading in the field of Web services, even before the
standard existed. XML messaging forms the bases of our application messaging
strategy. PeopleSoft does not just talk about Web services, we utilize them as
the backbone of how all our enterprise applications communicate. As the first
major ERP vendor to offer all business functions as standard Web services,
PeopleSoft continues to work to evolve and define the Web service standards of
the future. Although Web services will not be a panacea for the woes of
integration, they will play an ever-increasing role in the successful integration of
data, process, and people.
PeopleSoft Proprietary and Confidential Page 4 At PeopleSoft, we also recognize that an organization’s integration requirements
can span from the simple to the complex, and so we offer a full range of
solutions, right-sized to your needs. These include everything from batch,
through basic application messaging, to an extended integration platform. We
also recognize that many organizations already have made a choice on one or
sometimes more than one Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) vendor that
we need to provide connectivity into. PeopleSoft began formalizing many of our
EAI partnerships in early 1999, with virtually every leading EAI vendor being
certified to work with PeopleSoft technologies.
While many of our customers use EAI vendors as their central integration
infrastructure, PeopleSoft heard loud and clear from our customer base that they
wanted us to deliver robust integration technologies in order to lower
implementation and maintenance costs. Customers don’t want to be forced to
purchase a third-party EAI solution just to integrate PeopleSoft application into
their existing environments - this is especially true for less complex integration
scenarios. PeopleSoft has listened to our customers and has delivered a robust
set of integration technologies embedded within our core applications.
PeopleSoft is committed to all application modules shipping with the ability to
produce and consume standard Web services. This Web service gateway
functionality enables customers to use other EAI, Business Process Management
software or any other application that produces and consumes Web services.
This supports customer choices for these extended integration services.
While any PeopleSoft Enterprise application can expose a field or logic as a
Web service, PeopleSoft has used this capability to build pre-defined interface
points to major business functions. These are currently known as Enterprise
Integration Points (EIPs) and represent interface contracts that will not change
from release to release of the software. Using these integration points provides
an enterprise a better total ownership experience and reduces the cost of
integration.
PeopleSoft recognizes that good integration starts with the applications and their
interface points, not just tool sets. That is why we spend as much effort on the
Integration Content (Metadata, process models, design patterns, interface
contracts) as we do on the toolsets themselves.
PeopleSoft Proprietary and Confidential Page 5 PeopleSoft Integration Offerings
PeopleSoft’s integration technologies are a part of the AppConnect business
integration platform. AppConnect comprises the Portal, Integration/Process, and
Analytics components of PeopleSoft that allow the orchestration of multiple
roles, applications, and data into successful business processes.

The Integration/Process services of AppConnect include:
• Basic integration services
• Pre-Packaged integrations
• Extended integration services
• Process Analysis
Basic Integration is comprised of the components included in PeopleSoft
PeopleTools. This includes everything needed to get information into and out of
PeopleSoft applications. The focus for basic integration is simplicity of setup,
with the least number of moving parts. It provides:
• Point-to-Point
• Batch File Transfer
• Applic