1. Naeem Hashmi Founder Information Frameworks
The Extraprise Information Factory - An architecture for Collaborative Business Applications
Naeem Hashmi
Founder
Information Frameworks

2. Race to real time is On…

3. Introduction
Founder and CTO of Information Frameworks, an author, thought leader, speaker and world-renowned expert on emerging Information Architectures, Integration and Business Intelligence Technologies.
Author of the best selling book titled,
SAP Business Information Warehouse for SAP, 2000.
Technical Editor
SAP BW Certification Guide, authored by Catherine Roze,2002
Co-Author SAP BW Handbook, 2002
Member of Intelligent ERP magazine's board of editors
25+ years of experience in emerging Information Technology research, development, and management; Information Architectures; Enterprise Application Integration e-business; ERP applications; Data Warehousing; Data Mining; CRM; Internet, Object and Client/Server Technologies and Strategic Consulting.
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Naeem Hashmi

4. Agenda Business Applications - Today and Tomorrow
Technical Information Architecture
Evolution of The Extraprise Information Factory
The SAP Technology Framework
The Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portal and Exchange
Framework for Successful Collaborative Applications
Q&A

5. Agenda Business Applications - Today and Tomorrow
Technical Information Architecture
Evolution of The Extraprise Information Factory
The SAP Technology Framework
The Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portal and Exchange
Framework for Successful Collaborative Applications
Q&A

6. Business, Internet, & Intelligence Convergence!
Internet & e-Business
Portals
Applications
Legacy
Intelligent Collaboration

7. Technical Architectures
Dictionary/
Reference
Data
Collection
Left Side
Data
Access
Right Side
TA1
TA2
VITAL … *
End User
Services
Business
Applications
Data
Warehouses (Corporate Information Factory) *
Virtually Integrated Technical Architecture Life cycle

8. The eBusiness @ Work Today
Thank You.
Today
Source: The Computer World, July 2000

9. … And Tomorrow 7 1 Today 2 3 4 Tomorrow 5 6
Let me check Banker’s giving History
Today
Source: The Computer World, July 2000
Wow. Banker must be in a good mood today. Donations were much higher than the past 3 years! Gee.. Thanks 2
I should i-fax charity Tax-credit info to donor’s Tax Attorney 3
BUT, First, Let me also check banker’s Donations to others compared to me! 4
Not Good. Donor has given more to the others sitting around the corner. 5
Tomorrow
THE Big Question? Why
What am I doing wrong here?
Am I not dress well? or
Am I not cute? or
My Business Services Provider is not sending me right information to target right donors at the right corner at the right time ! 6
A big cultural, business and technical challenge: Providing intelligence services to the masses…Just like a Utility
An extremely complex task to implement Integrated and Business Intelligence-aware Internet Centric Environment 7

10. Collaborative Applications - Major Challenges
Intelligence
Internal, External
Structured, Unstructured
Integration
Applications, Data, and Functions
Internal, external
Infrastructure
Portals, Security, Workflow
Hardware/Software/Applications
Operations and Management

11. Evolving to new Information Architecture
New Architecture
TA2
Dictionary/
Reference
Strategic
Content
Data
Collection
Left Side
Data
Access
Right Side
Intelligent
Infragistic
CRM
Analytics
Tactical
End User
Services
B2x
Information Flow
Integration
Portal
Collaboration

12. Agenda Business Applications - Today and Tomorrow
Technical Information Architecture
Evolution of The Extraprise Information Factory
The SAP Technology Framework
The Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portal and Exchange
Framework for Successful Collaborative Applications
Q&A

13. The Extraprise Information Factory
Definition
“The Extraprise Information Factory is a Technical Architecture to construct and deploy scalable, extendable, distributable and integrated solutions needed to support integrated critical applications.”
Under this architecture, the Strategic, Tactical, eBusiness, Business Intelligence and Operational applications are tightly integrated under common infrastructure.

14. The Extraprise Information Factory
Defines four types of Information Integration Layers to construct collaborative business application components
Tightly Integrated
Loosely Integrated
File Based Integrated
On-Demand Integrated

15. The Extraprise Information Factory

16. The Extraprise Information Factory

17. The Extraprise Information Factory

18. The Extraprise Information Factory

19. The Extraprise Information Factory

20. Collaborative Applications - Major Challenges
Intelligence
Internal, External
Structured, Unstructured
Integration
Applications, Data, and Functions
Internal, external
Infrastructure
Portals, Security, Workflow
Hardware/Software/Applications
Operations and Management

21. Agenda Business Applications - Today and Tomorrow
Technical Information Architecture
Evolution of The Extraprise Information Factory
The SAP Technology Framework
The Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portal and Exchange
Framework for Successful Collaborative Applications
Q&A

22. SAP Technology Framework
SAP Technology Stack
Exchange
Process C Collaboration
Portal Infrastructure
User Centred Collaboration
Web Application Server
Web Services
J2EE and ABAP
CRM
SAP R/3 Enterprise
SCM
E-Procurement
PLM
Non-SAP Applications
External ...
Business
Intelligence
Framework
Source: SAP

23. What in Business Intelligence?
Traditional Business Intelligence Applications
• Executive Information Systems
• Decision Support Systems
• Enterprise Information Systems
• Management Support Systems
• OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing)
as well as technologies such as:
• Data Mining
• Data Visualization
• Geographic Information Systems
Today, Business Intelligence goes beyond traditional definition that includes:
• Balanced Score Cards
• Click-Stream Analysis
• CRM Analytics
• SCM Analytics
• Closed-Loop Analytic
• Full-Circle Analytics
Business Intelligence is a process to monitor key indicators about business environment, customers, partners, suppliers, regulations, competitors, industry trends and their impact on the business strategy and help define/improve profitable business model
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS

24. Business Intelligence Process
Industry Trends, Regulations, Economic Climate
Competitors, Financial Drivers, Research
Customers
Partners
Suppliers
Sales/Marketing
Services
Partners
Suppliers
Customers
EXTERNAL RESOURCES
Collection Management Consolidation Aggregation Integration and Delivery
COLLABORATION
KNOWLEDGE MGMT
BUSINESS PROCESSE INTEGRATION
Business Intelligence
TIMELY
ACCURATE
RIGHT PLACE
SECURE
Users
Systems
Integration
Business Units
R&D
Employee
INTERNAL RESOURCES
Business Applications, Data Warehouses, Research
Expertise, Knowledge Repositories, Libraries

25. SAP Business Intelligence
SAP Business Intelligence consists of the following four solutions:
SAP Business Information Warehouse
Data Warehousing Solution
Business Analytics
Business Content
Knowledge Warehouse
Knowledge Management
Enterprise Portal
Information Integration and Delivery
+420 InfoCubes
+90 ODS Objects
+1700 Queries

26. SAP Business Information Warehouse
Data
Extraction
Transformation
Data Warehouse
Reports
Data Sources
Reporting and Analysis
Data Access
A complete Data Warehouse Solution.
Analytical Applications Platform
Integrated with SAP Business Applications
Source: SAP
Source: SAP

27. SAP BI Integrated Framework & EIF

28. SAP Enterprise Portal Consumers Management Information Sources
Groupware
CRM
....
Business Application
SAP
Web
Portal client
Information sources
Portal Content Dir BI
Unifica-
tion KM Y!
iViewServer
Portal Builder
User/Role Mgmt
Enterprise Portal Solution
Source: SAP
Information
Sources
Management
Consumers
Personalization
Customization
Presentation an Navigation
Aggregation
Categorization/Taxonomy/Search
Unification
Collaboration
Workflow
Administration& Single Sign-on
Integration
Business Intelligence

29. SAP Enterprise Portal - Unifier
Groupware
CRM
....
Business Application
SAP
Web
Portal client
Information sources
Portal Content Dir BI
Unifica-
tion KM Y!
iViewServer
Portal Builder
User/Role Mgmt
Enterprise Portal Solution
Source: SAP
Unification
Ideal for providing an Integrated Information view across applications
Consolidation of structures/unstructured content
Not an EAI Tool
On-Demand Integration
Very important for Collaborative solutions
UNIFIER

30. SAP Exchange Technology for Collaborative applications
Based on XML messaging model for business process driven information exchange across applications
Integration Mode:
Loosely Coupled applications
Not for true real-time application Integration
Scalability
Ideal for Event centric applications – not for large data oriented applications

31. SAP Exchange Infrastructure
Share Collaboration Knowledge
Execute Collaborative Business Processes
Ensure Collaboration Reliability
to 3rd party or SAP components
Integration Server
Integration Repository
Integration Directory
Integration Engine
Additional Integration Services
Integration Monitor
configured knowledge
to business partners
to other public or private exchanges

32. Agenda Business Applications - Today and Tomorrow
Technical Information Architecture
Evolution of The Extraprise Information Factory
The SAP Technology Framework
The Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portal and Exchange
Framework for Successful Collaborative Applications
Q&A

33. Recipe for Successful cBusiness
Tight Integration with Business Intelligence
Supports Integration modes
Tightly Integrated
Loosely Integrated
File Based Integrated
On-Demand Integrated
Business Process Driven
Flexibility
EIF helps identify information Integration classes to construct right collaborative applications

34. Collaborative Solutions - SAP xApps
Docu- mentum
R/3
Lotus Notes
mySAP CRM
People- soft
Oracle 11i
Microsoft Project
People (Enterprise Portal)
Information (Business Intelligence)
Processes (Exchange Infrastructure)
SAP xApps
Web AS
Source: SAP
New paradigm to develop new web-based application on top of existing business and applications.

35. SAP xApps BENEFITS Extend the value of existing systems
Business Intelligence Driven
Can adapt to changing business drivers
Quick design and implementation life cycle
ISSUES
Latency
Security
Performance

36. Closing Remarks
If you want your information supply-chain to adapt to the changing business drivers, the Business Intelligence has to be at the center of your cBusiness universe and infrastucture supports solid integration capabilities to drive information flow across the enterprise.
The EIF offers a good Information Architecture to formulate future cBusiness applications.

37. Agenda Business Applications - Today and Tomorrow
Technical Information Architecture
Evolution of The Extraprise Information Factory
The SAP Technology Framework
The Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portal and Exchange
Framework for Successful Collaborative Applications
Q&A