Enterprise Enabler® and the
Microsoft integration stack
Nikhil Roy
July, 2007
Stone Bond Technologies
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Contents
OVERVIEW ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
INTEGRATION ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
THE MICROSOFT SOLUTION ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
HOW ENTERPRISE ENABLER FILLS THE GAPS....................................................................................................................................... 4
THREE THINGS ENTERPRISE ENABLER BRINGS ................................................................................................................................... 5
SUMMARY........................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
***Microsoft products mentioned in this paper are the property of Microsoft and may be trademarked in
the U.S. or other countries.
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Overview
Microsoft is expanding its offerings in the integration arena with products such as Host
Integration Server, BizTalk Server, SQL Server Integration Services and Windows
Communication Foundation. With its increasing presence, analysts such as Gartner have
moved Microsoft to a classification as a leading vendor in related categories. While
Microsoft’s stack is rounding out, there are a few important additional capabilities that can
be filled immediately by Stone Bond Technologies’ .NET based Enterprise Enabler
technology. Combining the technologies eliminates a large amount of programming and
significantly reduces the overall time and cost to create solutions using Microsoft’s
integration products.
Integration
Connecting systems and automating business processes is a strong driver to reducing
costs, improving operational efficiency, and capturing new business opportunities. For
these reasons, technologies that facilitate integration are a high priority for many
technology executives of all businesses in virtually any industry.
There are a variety of vendors in the market today offering products focused on ETL
(Extract Transform Load), EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and B2B (Business to
Business) technologies. More recently, several of these vendors have expanded the
potential number of integration scenarios covered by a single product offering. These
include Business Process Management (BPM) which adds capabilities such as business
activity monitoring, business process orchestration, and rules; and Web services, which
provide industry standards for secure, reliable, transacted communication across
platforms.
The purpose of this document is to provide a brief overview of the Microsoft integration
stack and how Stone Bond can add material and prompt value in key areas to complete
some important elements that Microsoft has not developed yet. While Microsoft does
have a very strong offering in the integration space, there are some gaps in specific
verticals that can easily be filled by using Enterprise Enabler.
The Microsoft solution
Integration space
In recent years, Microsoft has continued to expand its product offerings in both the Web
services and the integration markets, achieving leading vendor status in Gartner Group’s
Web services and integration backbone Magic Quadrants. Microsoft’s offering in this
space is focused around BizTalk Server, Host Integration Server, SSIS and Windows
Communication Foundation, a developer focused framework for building secure, reliable
Web services.
Host Integration Server helps customers integrate their mission-critical host
applications, data sources, messaging and security systems within a Microsoft .NET
Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA), enabling the re-use of IBM mainframe and
midrange data and applications across distributed environments.
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BizTalk Server helps customers integrate systems, employees, and trading partners
through manageable business processes enabling them to automate and orchestrate
interactions in a highly flexible and highly automated manner.
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is Microsoft’s platform for a new generation
of high performance data integration technologies which ships with SQL Server
2005. This is a new Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence application that is
the successor to Data Transformation Services (DTS).
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft’s next generation Web
services technology that provides a developer focused framework for building secure,
reliable and interoperable software based on industry standards. WCF extends the .NET
Framework 2.0 with additional functionality, enabling Visual Studio developers to build
connected systems using any .NET programming language.
Information worker and visualization tools
While the integration tools work behind the scenes, Microsoft’s visualization and user
interactions is supported with its PerformancePoint Server and SharePoint Server.
PerformancePoint Server 2007 is an integrated performance management application
that provides robust monitoring, analytics, and planning capabilities. Office
PerformancePoint Server 2007 helps businesses to articulate goals; monitor business
activity; identify and analyze issues; and collaborate and take action.
Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is an Enterprise Portal platform that makes it easy to
build and maintain portal sites for every aspect of the business. SharePoint is a secure,
scalable, enterprise portal framework built upon Windows SharePoint Services that can be
used to aggregate information and applications in the organization into a single, easy-to-
use portal. SharePoint provides a platform for sharing information and working together in
teams, communities and document-driven processes.
How Enterprise Enabler adds value and
increases client ROI for Microsoft integration
What is Enterprise Enabler?
Built on the Microsoft .NET Framework, Windows Server System and Microsoft SQL
Server, Enterprise Enabler is designed to provide a comprehensive set of capabilities for
integration. These capabilities are configured using easy to use GUI driven tools and
engineered to provide security, audit-ability, scalability, and performance. In addition, plug-
ins and extensions are easily built using Visual Studio .NET development environment.
How can the Microsoft offering be enhanced Now?
Typically a return on investment (ROI) comes when integration and BPM are brought
together and extended under a unified model that touches all applications in the
enterprise, including the mission critical line of business applications. Business
applications have diverse sources such as Web services, RSS, unstructured, semi
structured, and binary data, and as the variety and number of data sources for integration
increases, so does the potential complexity of the solution. Data Integration to most
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business applications has been typically developed as custom adapters due to the fact
that BizTalk Server, SSIS and SharePoint have relatively limited out of box capability to
handle these disparate sources. This creates a new opportunity in the “last mile” of the
integration layer, leaving it up to the corporate developer to hand code the mappings.
There is a direct (inverse) relationship between the amount of requisite involvement by
hand coding and the ultimate Return on Investment.
The key to making informed decisions is having the right data in the right place at the right
time. Business decision makers and managers rely on business intelligence (BI), BAM
and reporting tools to deliver timely, accurate, and relevant data for both strategic as well
as tactical decisions. With data coming from a multitude of sources, and the desired
selection of data often being dependent on relationships across multiple applications, it is
generally necessary to bring all the data together into a database before the selection can
occur. Eliminating this step can dramatically decrease the time, effort, and cost of
development. In order to eliminate the staging database, the underlying integration layer
must support the creation of virtual relationships among various sources and must provide
access as if they were a single database source, by using a SQL like syntax. While
BizTalk and SSIS provide some level of support, they are susceptible to important
improvements in several key areas.
Three things Enterprise Enabler brings to the table
Federated query and metadata management (EII) Enterprise Enabler provides a native
ado.net driver which makes relational and non-relational systems seem the same,
allowing the capability to define virtual relationships among systems and query them using
SQL syntax.
MS product that benefit:
SSIS
BizTalk
SharePoint
PerformancePoint
Benefits
Enables real-time queries across enterprise sources, including
XML/SOAP data, real-time sources, relational and non-relational sources
Non-invasive: no change required to existing source systems’ schema
No central view or data warehouse required
Uses
Enable SharePoint Server based access to non-relational data for
display and updates within standard web parts using Enterprise
Enabler’s BDC connector
Metadata Driven Connectivity Enterprise Enabler offers out of box connectivity to
hundreds and potentially thousands of sources of data including but not limited to
business applications in the energy, life sciences and other verticals. This connector
architecture combines a powerful transformation engine with an intelligent data access
layer. It is 100% metadata driven, which allows transforming disparate data formats from
multiple sources and applying complex mapping rules – in essence Enterprise Enabler is
a universal dynamic data adapter that also complements an XSLT transformation engine
with reach directly to non-XML sources. There is literally no limit to the data sources
and destinations that can be accessed using this technology.
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MS product that benefit:
BizTalk
SSIS
SharePoint
Benefits
Broader “reach” providing better BPM, BAM and Human workflows
Dashboards and web parts can display and update mission critical data
previously unavailable
No central view or data warehouse required
Uses
This capability becomes effectively a Universal Adapter to BizTalk,
rapidly giving access to virtually any data sources, applying complex
business rules at data access time.
Web Services Enablement Enterprise Enabler is built on and extends the Windows
Communication Framework (WCF) to allow publishing and consuming services entirely
using GUI based tools. This provides a highly productive environment for building secure,
reliable and interoperable Web services-- the building blocks of an SOA.
MS product that benefit
BizTalk
SharePoint
Host Integration Server
PerformancePoint
Benefits
GUI based configuration and enablement of WCF services
Uses
SOA enable any data source, attaining greater business agility from
existing IT investments. Build composite applications and unlock IT
resources; enable applications, systems, or trading partners, to be
accessed as a standards compliant service
Example
Enterprise Enabler is built on and extends the Windows Communication
Framework (WCF) to allow publishing and consuming services entirely
using GUI based tools.
A few examples
BizTalk users can quickly access data from industry-specific sources such as real-time
process control data
SharePoint developers can have BDC metadata automatically generated for any data
source or for data from multiple disparate sources that are aligned and merged using
complex rules
Biztalk users can issue federated SQL queries across multiple sources.
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Summary
While BizTalk Server, HIS, SSIS and WCF each provide significant value on their own, the
combination of these technologies with Enterprise Enabler provides the broadest
spectrum of connected systems scenarios. Enterprise Enabler adds material and prompt
value to business process orchestration, data integration and SOA enablement through its
broad set of connectivity, virtual relationships, federated query and WCF enhancements.
Stone Bond Technologies has leveraged Microsoft’s technology to develop GUI-driven
capabilities that complement and enhance Microsoft’s integration offerings. Built on .NET,
and 100% metadata-driven, Enterprise Enabler fills some gaps in the Microsoft stack and
reduces the time necessary for customers to implement solutions.
Capabilities that Stone Bond’s product brings to the Microsoft stack include:
• Universal Adapter, the ability to rapidly incorporate any data sources to BizTalk
and SharePoint.
• A powerful transformation engine, operation on data in its native format as
opposed to being limited to XML
• Federated SQL queries via virtual relationships built across multiple disparate
data sources.
• A metadata generator to automatically generate BDC metadata for SharePoint
All of these capabilities, used in conjunction with Microsoft’s products, eliminate a large
amount of coding and reduce the overall time and cost to create solutions.
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