BTR How to encounter today’s EAI messaging challenges Services Enterprise integration is a critical part of today's company strategies. Integration projects are equally or even more diﬃcult than most application development eﬀorts. This diﬃculty stems from complexities in both the business and technical domains. Given the experiences with large application development eﬀorts, embarking on complex enterprise application integration (EAI) projects may scare many business sponsors and IT departments. Once the EAI solution is implemented, IT Managers are facing challenges to ﬁnd the right long-term balance between cost control and user satisfaction of the services they are providing. Based on a research with diﬀerent IT departments, we have summarized the most common EAI related reasons: - Diﬃcult to hire and retain IT people with the right skills to maintain and manage Expensive training programs to maintain IT people’s knowledge Diﬃcult to integrate upgrades of or new business applications Instability of the existing EAI solution An important compelling event why e-Gate customers are facing these diﬃculties is the near retirement of their EAI solution. Unfortunately is upgrading no longer an option. Sun’s acquisition by Oracle has caused a chain reaction of diminishing eGate and JCAPS support. It is forcing many companies to evaluate alternative solutions which ﬁt in CIO’s the long-term mission: deliver high quality services with competitive budget to optimize economies of scale. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just ask someone all those important questions or have someone assist you through the complete lifecycle of your endeavor? Well, that’s where BTR Services can help and assist. BTR helps to migrate your existing interfaces and ﬂows from Sun Seebeyonds eGate to IBMs Websphere in an accurately and cost-eﬀective manner while also adopting a solution that provides more ﬂexibility and stability. We use the IBM toolkit to migrate your old existing code to new code usable in the Websphere solution. What can be migrated and which costs can be reduced by choosing for the BTR Services migration solution? 64% Savings 80% eGate Structure Migration Java/Monk • Monk collaborations reduced to 20% of 80% initial eﬀort. • Java Collaborations reduced to 10% of 80% initial eﬀort. o Message ﬂow development reduced to 10% of 80% initial eﬀort including Logic, node and infrastructure. eGate Java Code migration • eGate structure reduced to 5% of 80% initial eﬀort with o XML fully supported; o Limited support for Tag Delimited Structure; o Fixed Length via tds. structure Flow dev Monk collab Monk Testing/Prod deployment Testing/Prod deployment • Summarized, the migration approach reduces the eﬀort with 64 % compared to a traditional project approach. BTR Services NV | Groene Hofstraat 31 | 2850 Boom | Belgium | www.btr-services.be Tel +32 3 450 89 80 | Fax +32 450 89 89 | [email protected] BTW-BE-0876.882.275 | RPR Antwerpen | Fortis 001-4700612-68 | KBC 734-0159281-16 | ING 390-0441290-92 BTR Services helps customers to choose and to implement a long-term solution which: - Oﬀers more power, ﬂexibility and capabilties; - Avoids a complete rewrite of interfaces and ﬂows; - Reduces training time of team members; - Guarantees 24/7 product support; - Integrate easily the newest applications using a state of the art technology; - Scale horizontally and vertically to meet the performance requirements; - Implement new message ﬂows; - Find skilled people on the market. Technical Overview for message models eGate ETD Files (XSCs) Egate SSC JCAPS OTDs Deﬁnitions from external sources or output from eGate wizards JAR ﬁle C Header XML Schema XML XML processing JAVACC Parser and visitor COBOL Copybook WSDL DTD Standard WMB Tool Import tagged/ delimited WMB meta data WebSphere Message Broker Message Set (mxsd) BTR Services is recognized as a specialist in delivering IT Services and Solutions. Our consultants are highly appreciated for their commitment to contribute to numerous successful projects. Herewith some of the tasks for which we can provide insight or assistance: - Full support BTR Services provides full support during the whole migration path. We advise and assist with the setup of a development environment, tailored to suit the needs and governance requirements. - Well trained consultants BTR Services oﬀers well trained consultants, experts in the old and new product. - Persistent support BTR Services oﬀers persistent support after the migration, even with the integration of new ﬂows. Contact us to further elaborate on what the “eGate migration solution” can do in order to optimize your and your company’s business and IT objectives. www.btr-services.be BTR Services NV | Groene Hofstraat 31 | 2850 Boom | Belgium | www.btr-services.be Tel +32 3 450 89 80 | Fax +32 450 89 89 | [email protected] BTW-BE-0876.882.275 | RPR Antwerpen | Fortis 001-4700612-68 | KBC 734-0159281-16 | ING 390-0441290-92