B2B Integration : A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce

116 B2B Integration — A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce
Business Model
Data Model
Databases
MVS acs / IMS
SNA, TCP/IP
Business Process
Option
Information
Integrator
BEA eLink Foundation
ERP
SAP, PeopleSoft,
Qrade, etc.
Legacy,
Custom
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CRM
Clarify, Siebel,
etc.
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Billing
Kenan, Portal,
etc.
Figure 4.10. — BEA eLink enabling EAI
Electronic
Services
According to the BEA eLink product data sheet, as of this writing,
the following adapters are made available by BEA (see Figure 4.10):
• Customer resource management (CRM) applications: Vantive, Siebel,
Clarify;
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications: SAP R/3, PeopleSoft,
Oracle;
• Mainframe applications: CICS, IMS, any SNA peer; Unisys OS
2200, Unisys MCP/AS, or any system that supports Open Group
XATMI over OSI TP;
• Billing applications: Portal, Kenan;
• Internet and integration adapters: BEA eLink Adapter for Broadvision,
BEA eLink Adapter for XML and BEA eLink Adapter for MQSeries;
and
• Integration with databases: Oracle, Informix, Sybase, etc.
4.7.2. TIBCO ActiveEnterprise
The TIBCO ActiveEnterprise consists of several products that enable
EAI. These products are (see Figure 4.11):