White Papers, Technology Briefs, and Industry Analyst Reports on Business Integration

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Multi-Enterprise Integration and Managed File Transfer iWay Software's Managed File Transfer (MFT) offers the industry's most complete suite of integration technology for coordinating processes and sending files in a managed and secure fashion. This paper explores some common integration scenarios and explains how iWay simplifies the setup, processing, and overhead related to managing file transfers.

Worst Practices in SOA Implementation Designed to help organizations learn from the mistakes of others, this paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for SOA integration. It also provides guidance on how to avoid and/or overcome these worst practices in order to realize the true value of an open, reusable integration architecture. By reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to avoid SOA integration failure and achieve success with your initiatives.

Is a Data Warehouse the Only Option? Seven Styles of Data Integration There are many ways to access data for analysis and reporting. You should analyze each business challenge to understand whether a data warehouse or another type of information-access method presents the best solution. This white paper identifies seven basic ways to integrate and access data to solve various business problems.

Why Business Managers Should Care About Service-Oriented Architecture Technical staff frequently talk about the need for service-oriented architecture (SOA), but rarely in terms that business managers understand. We can sum up the benefits of service-oriented architecture and show you ways to avoid the danger of implementing technology for technology’s sake.

The Role of ESB in SOA: Creating a Loosely Coupled Integration Architecture Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) – a highly evolved approach to integration that transforms IT service delivery – can significantly improve business agility and streamline business processes. A good enterprise service bus (ESB) – a component of SOA used to develop services – can enhance SOA by enabling a loosely coupled relationship between service interfaces and applications, minimizing code-writing and facilitating service changes without requiring intimate knowledge of underlying enterprise systems. This paper discusses the relationship between ESB, loose coupling, and the effort needed to align IT with business process owners in order to ensure a successful SOA implementation in any organization.

Butler Group on iWay Service Manager iWay Service Manager is a complete integrated design environment... from an end-user perspective it is simply a complete management solution that can be used with the graphical interface to design process-centric applications. without the need for developers to understand or map to the underlying infrastructure

iWay SOA Middleware: An Agile Framework for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments Can service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles untangle the complexity of today's business integration requirements? This paper provides an overview of the promises and realities of collaborative SOA environments, and describes how iWay SOA Middleware solutions make the benefits of an SOA achievable, while protecting investments in already-in-place applications, middleware, and information systems. With each new project, a company can gradually strengthen its SOA foundation without force-fitting all aspects of an operation into a Web-based service model.

Implement a Best-of-Breed Fusion Center Knowledge is power, and today's law enforcement professional must be a knowledge-based worker. From the police chief to the patrol officer, everyone needs the latest information to rapidly gain awareness and understanding of the events in their jurisdiction. A well-designed Fusion Center can make this possible, but accessing, consolidating, and then distributing the myriad information sources required by a Fusion Center is no mean feat. This paper discusses the critical components and success factors required to design and implement a best-of-breed Fusion Center in order to effectively fight, and even prevent, crime.

Web Services: Replacing Adapters, or Requiring Them? This paper details why Web services don’t replace adapters; they require them. Read six benefits of the iWay Adaptive Framework that make it easy for anyone to create Web services and, more importantly, go beyond Web services to create a comprehensive service-oriented architecture.

Nucleus Research Case Study: Alcan Achieves 934% ROI on EAI Project The ability to tie together data from multiple sources using iWay Software and bring it forward in new e-commerce initiatives has enabled Alcan to realize significant savings in operational costs while also generating incremental revenue.

An Integrated Justice Solution From iWay Software This paper defines the elements of information sharing within the Integrated Justice community. iWay Software's Integrated Justice Suite facilitates the collection, transformation, integration, formatting, delivery, and analysis of justice information.

Where Integration Meets Business Intelligence: Creating an Actionable BI Environment for Monitoring What’s still lacking for many companies is the ability to gain unique insights or make decisions faster by deriving actionable information from routine business processes. That’s what the next generation of BI will entail and it’s emerging now.

Reusable Adapters: The Foundation of Service-Oriented Architecture This paper discusses adapters and their role in Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA).

The Coexistence of Old and New B2B Technologies iWay Software provides certified solutions that promote coexistence of EDI and Internet-based B2B. This paper explains how iWay Software solutions ensure that new systems remain backwards compatible with old systems, while driving down costs, increasing flexibility, and minimizing custom programming.

Tackling the Data Management Challenge Through Server Consolidation Obtaining the best data for specific applications requires more than simply the ability to connect to like sources using similar semantics. It means making decisions about how fresh the data must be, where it must ultimately reside, and in what forms users need it. Navigate the challenges of data and server consolidation with help from Unisys and Information Builders.

The iWay Security Exchange The iWay Security Exchange enables government, law enforcement, and private industry to effectively exchange and share information easily in real time. Based on iWay and IBM WebSphere integration environments, iSE is a complete software and services solution that provides the most complete architecture available for cost effectively enabling the exchange of information with little to no impact on existing information assets.