3rd Annual Plex/2E Worldwide Users Conference Page based on Title Slide from Slide Layout palette. Design is cacorp Title text for Title or Divider pages should be either 40 pt for short titles/28 pt for subtitles or 32 pts for longer titles/24 pt for subtitles. DATE text box is not on master and can be deleted. The date should always be 20 pts. 4D Experiences with SOA and Orchestration Through Business Process Management Using CA Plex Renato Stalder, Soreco AG September 20, 2007

September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA Bio Slide >Renato Stalder CEO Soreco Ltd. >Switzerland/Europe >37 years >Masters degree in Management Consulting (MBA) >7 years IBM Switzerland in several positions >12 years Soreco, Marketing, Development Manager and CEO

Abstract >Soreco, one of the leading Swiss software companies with customers in over 30% of the top 500 regional companies, are one of Europe’s largest users of CA Plex. >Many companies have migrated software products over the past several years toward SOA. During this process, Soreco has made it possible to use its own BPM engine as an orchestration layer for services. >This session will describe an approach towards SOA and BPM using CA technologies, taking a pragmatic approach born out of everyday experiences in complex application environments. September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Agenda >Some Words About Us >Soreco and CA Plex >Service-Oriented Architecture - how do you get it and why should you? >Our way with CA Plex and ivy >Demo >Summary September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

SORECOgroup Headquarters (100 employees) Zurich (Switzerland) Branches Switzerland Bern, Basel, Zug Germany/Austria Hamburg, Munich Vienna Solutions Business Process Management Human Resources Management Financial Accounting Controlling Document Management Customer Relations Management Customers 500 well-known companies and organizations of all industries in Switzerland, Germany and Austria Competencies Business Software Development IT- and Process-Consulting Project Management September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

SORECOgroup 1999 >ERP Solution developed with Synon 2E (today CA 2E) >Cross-industry solutions (HR, Finance, DMS) >1500+ installations in all industries >Need for re-development >Decision to adopt CA Plex Client Server Database WinC NTServer/WinC RPG/400 MS SQL Server DB2/400 September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Development of Xpert.Line Objectives Flexibility Individuality Usability September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Two Main Concepts Business Process Management Xpert.ivy Service Oriented Architecture CA PLEX September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

3rd Annual Plex/2E Worldwide Users Conference Service- Oriented Architecture with CA Plex

The way to SOA (How Do You Get It?) ERP CRM DMS SCM >Modularization of Services >Recombination of Services towards a new solution September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

SOA in Heterogeneous Systems Service Consumer New Service Service Interface Service Impl. Non SOA- Applicantion (ERP, Legacy etc.) Wrapped Service Combined Service September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Collaboration of BPM and SOA September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

SOA Advantages  Split logic of process and functions (  Transparency)  Reduce redundancy(  Cost reduction)  Maximum reusability (  Cost reduction)  Gain significant flexibility September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

SOA Interface Technologies with CA Plex >TCP / IP Protocol >Web Services >Plex >Java >RPC >RMI >etc. Plex Java API Java API Web Services 3rd PartyXpert.ivy September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

How to Get a Web Service Out of CA Plex? September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

3rd Annual Plex/2E Worldwide Users Conference Business Process Management with CA Plex and Xpert.ivy

Why? Dynamic Processes vs. Static Systems >Discrepancy: Companies are work-process oriented while their software is function - based. >Reasons: While processes are constantly changing software solutions remain static >Workaround: To match with any customer need vendors have add any imaginable function to their software (>complexity) September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Consequences >High maintenance costs (about 70% of IT expenses) >Training costs and implementation times are high >Quality Problems >Unsatisfactory Productivity September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Modeling ImplementationIntegration Control The Business Process Management Circle September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Presentation layer The Process Layer Presentation layer SCMERPCRM Application layer CA Plex DB-Layer Database layer Files Process layer September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Concept Market, Competitors, Customers, Laws, Sarbanes Oxley, Basel II etc. Process - Orientation Customer End-to-End Prozesses Service - Orientation Datenbases Applications (ERP, EMS, HR, Host,...) Organisation (location, offices…) Dynamic / variable Modifiable Fix, immobile September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

P2A In Two Steps from Model to Application Xpert.ivy ? ? Process definition/design Transfer from Model to Application uploading to Xpert.ivy server Execution at runtime September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Integration Without Active Process Management Core application Archive …. Credit checkCRM FinanceHRMProductionPurchaseManagementSalesCustomer September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Integration with Active Process Management GroupwareCRMArchive Core System Credit Check Sales RepCall CenterManager Risk Controller Customer End to End Process September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Change Towards Process Thinking CRMERPDMS September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Independent Workflow ERPDMSCRM Integrated Workflow ERPDMSCRM Independent Workflow September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Enterprise Application Integration WebServicesDatabasesJAVA/.NETEtc. BPMS LDAP Reuse existing applications Legacy is old, but it works! September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Process controlling (BAM/BAR) DMS/ArchiveERPFinance Real-time Monitoring September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Optimization Areas Tasks Time lag September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Design = Documentation = Execution Customer HistoryProcess Data Real-Time- Figures Process Monitoring/Controlling DMSERPDB HR Xpert.ivy DB-Element Program- Interface-Element (PI) Web Service- Element XML Monitoring September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Demo September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

3rd Annual Plex/2E Worldwide Users Conference RIA: The Next Big Thing

RIA (Rich Internet Application) HTMLRIA 5250 DOSWindows Rich (Umfang) Reach (Erreichbarkeit) September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

IT Architecture of the Future Core Systems ERPCRMSCMDMS Database Elementary ServicesShort Run ProcessBusiness Process XPDL Orchestration Java/.Net SQL WebServices Java, Flash, AJAX Presentation RIAWebMob.WS September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

User Interface Processes Business Process September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Demo September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

Summary SOA and Process – The next big wave >CA Plex is very powerful to build services >Model export makes reusability outside Plex very easy >Protection of your investment >High quality RAD (pattern approach) >Supports standards (Web Services / Java) September 20, 2007 SOA and BPM with CA Plex Copyright © 2007 CA

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