The document introduces PIE (Platform Integration Engine), a job processing engine that integrates platforms by providing a simple Java service for custom connector development. PIE aims to make integration development and deployments easier by supporting custom solutions that can target both the existing MA and IS integration points in ImageNow simultaneously, and by enabling reusable plug-ins that can be licensed separately and deployed at scale.

1. Perceptive
Integration Framework
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Solution Architecture

2. PIE: Platform
Integration Engine
We don’t call it PIF, we call it PIE!
We integrate platforms with a job processing
engine.
We productize & license reusable solutions
that connect ImageNow to the world.
We provide a simple & thin Java service to
connector authors for custom development.

3. Existing ImageNow
Integration Points
MA aka Message Agent
SOAP web service
Old & clunky
IS aka Integration Server
REST web service
New & shiny

4. Existing ImageNow
Solutions Technologies
Workflow
Develop interactive & automated
procedures using graph-based logical
diagrams
iScript
Develop micro-applications w/ server-side
JavaScript bridge to C++ ImageNow APIs

5. Why Yet Another Technology
for Integration Development?
We want “easy” support for custom solutions
that target MA & IS simultaneously.
We want an “easy” system for reusable &
separately licensed plug-ins.
We want “easy” deployments that scale.