In this video, Sami Tähtinen - CTO of Youredi talks about the actual difference between EAI & EDI concepts. He also talks about how to expand outside the firewall If you have an EAI solution. Similarly, If you have an EDI solution, how to enable true end-to-end integration

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2. From ground to interstellar
How to expand EAI to multiple organizations?
Sami Tähtinen, CTO, Youredi Ltd

3. A quick introduction

4. Youredi Ltd
• Finnish software company providing
Integration Platform as a Service
(iPaaS) solutions
• Operations in Europe, expanding to
US and APAC during 2015
• www.youredi.com
• Focus on creating business-to-
business connectivity
• Provides also integration capabilities
for end customer either directly or
through our system integration
partners

5. EAI vs. B2B/EDI integration
What are the differences?
Or are there any?

6. What is EAI?
- In this presentation, EAI means integration
within an organization
- Integrating internal applications, with
possibility to communicate with external
applications
- However, integration is carried out from
internal point of view; the focus is on internal
processes and systems

7. A ”typical” EAI case
- Integrating ERP’s, CRM’s, finance,...
- Development is almost always started from a
single organization viewpoint
- Thus, information is regarded as confidential;
no need to think about publicity rules

8. A ”typical” EAI case
CRM FINA ...ERP ...
We
Others

9. What is B2B or EDI ?
- In this presentation, B2B/EDI means
information exchange between different
companies
- To be more exact, this information exchange is
considered to be managed by an external
value-added network (VAN) / EDI operator
- Development is carried out from public point
of view; information that is exchanged is
considered confidential in the network
context

10. A ”typical” B2B case (EDI operator
perspective)
- Integrating financial transactions, order-to-
cash processes etc. across multiple
organizations
- Development is almost always started from a
multi-organization perspective
- Thus, information can be treated as shared
from the beginning; no need to touch strictly
confidential information of a single
organization

11. A ”typical” B2B case (EDI operator)
Org2 Org3 ...Org1 ...
Private
Public
FTP(S), SFTP, AS2, WS...

12. These two combined...

13. These two combined...
Org2 Org3 ...Org1 ...
ERPCRMFINA
ERPCRMFINA
ERP
CRMFINA
ERPCRMFINA
ERP
CRMFINA ... ... ... ......

14. Difference?
- Both approaches are built up from similar
building blocks:
- Integration endpoints; protocols,
adapters, connectors
- Transformations
- Processes/orchestrations taking care of
transfer logic
- Business rules, monitoring, alerting,...
- On a technical level, there are not many
differences.

15. Who owns the integration…
…and information?

16. Why are EAI and B2B/EDI
traditionally separated?
- As outlined before, the major difference in EAI
and B2B integration may be the way
information is understood
- In EAI, information can be considered
confidential
- In B2B, information can be considered
shared
- It is easy to consider the world in a context of
confidential and shared information and have
different tools for both.
- Do you have a separate phone for your
company’s internal and external calls?

17. Who owns the integration in a
networked world?
- Business processes tend to start from outside
of your organization – e.g. an order.
- In today’s networked world, more and more
business processes (or parts of them) are
outsourced.
- You have two options:
- Try to cope with a strict separation of
private and public information by
separating the execution, or
- Accept additional complexity of thinking
who owns the information.

18. Hybrids…
…and ways to implement them?
Or should everything be held in a single solution?

19. Expanding EAI outside the firewall

20. Business processes always reach
outside my organization.
- When creating EAI solutions, there is a danger
that a business process is seen only from one
organization’s context
- Things like receiving an order or sending an
invoice is easy to understand as an external
function, not belonging to the core business.
- However, a business process is typically
started from outside my organization, and last
steps are executed outside my organization.

21. A ”traditional” hybrid
Org2 Org3 ...Org1 ...
ERPCRMFINA
ERPCRMFINA
ERP
CRMFINA
ERPCRMFINA
ERP
CRMFINA ... ... ... ......

22. From B2B/EDI into your
own data center

23. Boundary has been clear.
- However, not all are happy with a batch-based
information exchange between organizations.
- If a B2B/EDI vendor can bring the information
to your FTP server, why couldn’t they deliver it
all the way to your ERP?
- Why do I need to create the ”last mile”
integration with my EAI software? What if I
don’t have one?

24. Could you consider this?
CRM FINA ...ERP ...
Us
Cloud

25. Or this?
Us &
Them
Cloud
ERP
CRMFINA...
ERP
CRMFINA...

26. Enter iPaaS.
- Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) is
basically a paradigm that combines all the
good from both EAI and B2B worlds.
- By definition, iPaaS is cloud-based. In most of
the implementations, this means that you
don’t need to invest to your own software
licenses, or hardware.
- In a typical implementation, iPaaS platforms
provide centralized processing of information
transfers, with on-premise adapters (when
required) taking care of EAI connectivity.

27. Enter iPaaS.
- iPaaS can be considered as an alternative for
on-premise EAI installations.
- However, the largest benefit of iPaaS comes
when you realize that they are a combination
of EAI and B2B connectivity, and can handle
both.
- iPaaS platforms understand the
difference between private and public
data.
- Combination of EAI and B2B
functionalities in a single platform may
result in serious cost benefits.

28. Considerations.
- Performance.
- Can I afford a round-trip when I need to
integrate two applications within my data
center?
- Trust.
- Can I be sure that my information is safe?
- Legislation.
- Can I have e.g. my customers’ personal
data processed in an external data
center?

29. Summary

30. EAI approach to B2B
Public network

31. EDI/VAN approach to B2B
Public network

32. Public network
iPaaS approach to EAI and B2B

33. iPaaS is a new generation of EDI.
- EDI operators have been traditionally building
multi-tenant integration software that can
manage information exchange between
potentially huge number of companies.
- iPaaS platforms are using the same approach,
with a twist; making it possible to integrate
information from end to end – not just batch
transfers between FTP servers

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