What is IBS Integrator?
What is IBS Integrator? IBS Integrator is an award winning integration and connectivity platform, which allows organizations and applications to easily connect and communicate with each other. More than 12 solution specific adapters and a built-in high performance ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) enable IBS Integrator to connect disparate applications in a seamless way. IBS Integrator provides 8 types of built-in services to easily setup and configure communication between systems and business partners. What are the benefits of using IBS Integrator? Supply Chain Integration: IBS Integrator allows customers to automate the processes within the supply chain. Data Management: Streamlined data management leads to better data quality, reduces the number of manual interactions and ultimately results in reduced operational costs and higher customer satisfaction. Supply Chain Planning: Direct electronically access to your customer’s current stock level and procurement plans allows you to plan your business more accurately and helps you saving costs by ensuring an optimized stock level. Visibility through Web Portals: A real time view of your current relationship with customers and suppliers allows a just-in-time supply chain and makes sure you always have the stock you need. Business Partner Collaboration: Business relations to customers and suppliers are changing over time and require more collaboration between the partners. This requires a system which allows you to speak to your partners in their language using disparate technologies in order to be able to use information from external systems and applications. SOA, integration through services: IBS Integrator helps you securing your investment by enabling collaboration between your systems and your partners. Collaboration is supported through a vast range of protocols such as SOAP, EDI, XML, HTTP(s), FTP(s), mail and SMS as well as out-of-the-box integration with all major DMS (e.g. DB400, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2) and Queuing Tools (e.g. MQ Series, Microsoft MQ, Oracle AQ). Of course IBS Integrator also provides seamless integration with IBS Enterprise and other ERP systems. High availability and fault tolerance: IBS Integrator’s built-in fault tolerance and expandability allows organizations to service their customers and suppliers 24/7 – all year long! Easy to use and configure: IBS Integrator takes less than 10 minutes to install and does not require any additional software. Once installed, you can use the Design Studio to easily develop new solutions based on Visual Statements and deploy and configure services through the web administration. IBS Integrator delivers a seamless upgrade path, which allows our customers to secure their investment. Through its wide range of supported technologies and protocols IBS Integrator allows you to realize all of these benefits (and more). Please visit http://www.ibs.net/en/resources/case-studies/ Customer Success stories to find out more about how our customers improved their business through IBS Integrator. What’s new in IBS Integrator 6.7.0.0? IBS Integrator 6.7 introduces enhancements and new features in these main areas: Extended scalability and support for load balancing of web based applications. Enhanced performance through high performance XML handling Improved usability, including functionality to search, compare and copy services Extended security for web based applications and file transfer Easy to use web service client wizard Built-in monitor functionality Support for the latest Microsoft Failover Cluster platform New adapter for integration with Microsoft CRM Dynamics What is Design Studio? Design Studio is IBS Integrator’s development and test platform. You can easily create, debug and run Integrator solutions (based on the java language). Visual Statements and Wizards allow developers to create integration solutions intuitively without having to focus on APIs and syntax issues, enabling them to concentrate solely on the business solution. Design Studio delivers more than 400 Visual Statements and Wizards. What is the web administration? IBS Integrator provides the possibility to host different services, e.g. Timer, Folder watcher and Web Services. The web administration is a browser based interface which enables the administrator to create, configure, start and stop each service individually. In most cases the services were developed through Design Studio. How are Design Studio solutions deployed? Integrator solutions are usually developed in Design Studio in an IBS specific language, which is a superset of java. These programs are saved into an itr files. Compiling itr files in Design Studio will create a java (source) and class (binary) representation of the itr file. These class files can subsequently be deployed as services. Why is Design Studio creating itr files? IBS Integrator’s own itr language is a superset of the java language specification. Apart from the sun java specification, itr files also support constructs which are specific for Visual Statements. These constructs are compiled into java source files when an Integrator solution is built. Which services does IBS Integrator provide? IBS Integrator provides the following services: Timer: Used to run jobs periodically. Folder Watcher: Used to monitor a specific folder and process incoming files automatically Socket Watcher: Used to monitor a specific socket and process incoming requests automatically Message Server: Light weight Socket Watcher Queue Watcher: Used to monitor a IBS Communicator Queue and process incoming messages automatically Communicator: High performance Queuing System eSite: Used to deploy web sites Connection Pool: Used to pool performance sensitive (database) connections Web Services: Used to deploy and configure Web Services AS2: Used to deploy and configure AS2 and AS2 partners Alert: Used to monitor system resources Is it required to develop Integrator services in Design Studio? No, even though it is recommended and most customers use Design Studio to develop Integrator services. It is absolutely possible to develop Integrator services in your preferred Development Environment and deploy the service through the web administration. What is an Adapter? Adapters bundle the Visual Statements for one specific solution, e.g. IBM MQ Series or EDI. Please visit the List of Adapters to see the complete list of supported adapters. Which Adapters are available? IBS Integrator contains the following adapters: AS2 Crypto Domino EDI Office Excel IBS Enterprise IBM MQ Series Informix DB Internet ISeries Microsoft MQ Lawson Movex LDAP Oracle Servlets Web Services xTrade XML Which protocols are supported? IBS Integrator supports a wide range of standard and proprietary protocols through Visual Statements: Internet: FTP (active/passive) HTTP SOAP Mail Fax SMS Telnet Serial Connection Low lever socket connection Internet Encrypted: OFTP AS/2 FTPS(FTP/SSL) SFTP (FTP/SSH) HTTPS SMIME SSL 3.0 Web Services: Document Based RPC Based Message Based Wrapped WSDL SOAP WS-I Compliant LDAP LDAP Which DBMS and applications are supported? IBS Integrator supports a wide range of standard and proprietary applications through Visual Statements: IBS IBS Enterprise Lawson Movex Native DBS: DB2 DB2/400 SQL Server Oracle MySQL General DB Support JDBC ODBC Office Excel Queuing Tools IBS Communicator IBM MQ Series MSMQ Oracle Advanced Queue Domino Domino Server XTrade XTrade Business Communication Suite Which platforms does IBS Integrator support? IBS Integrator is installable on the following platforms: Windows XP Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Is IBS Integrator supported on a 64 bit platform? Yes, a native 64 bit version is available for deployment. What are IBS Integrator exe files? Integrator code is developed in Design Studio and allows the developer to make use of Integrator specific classes. As a default this code has to be executed within an installed Integrator runtime environment. The code can be compiled into an exe file in order to allow developers to execute the code outside of the installed environment.
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