1. Integrating Enterprise Applications Into SharePoint® Portal Server
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Integrating Enterprise Applications Into SharePoint® Portal Server
John Hooper
Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Technology Centre
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Agenda
What is Enterprise Integration?
Scenarios
Strategy
Models
Best Scenarios
Strengths and Weaknesses
Specific facilities
SPS and WSS as providers, not just consumers
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3. What Is Enterprise Application Integration?
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What Is Enterprise Application Integration?
Access to enterprise applications
Interactivity with enterprise applications
Reuse of portions of enterprise applications in new ways
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4. Good Customer Scenarios
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Good Customer Scenarios
Self-service
Human resources web
Payroll information
Expense reports
My benefits
Aggregation
CEO Business Intelligence Portal
Pulse of the business
Sales Force Automation
360 degree view of the customer
My accounts, opportunities, to-dos, etc
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5. Not-So-Good Customer Scenarios
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Not-So-Good Customer Scenarios
Replicate LOB application’s user interface and business logic
Use portal merely as an access point to a single LOB application
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6. Microsoft’s Enterprise Application Integration Strategy
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Microsoft’s Enterprise Application Integration Strategy
Web
Part
Web
Part
Office
SharePoint Portal Server
Web services
Integration:
BizTalk Server
Application Server:
Windows Server 2003
BT Adapters
Connectors
SAP
Siebel
. . .
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7. Accessing Enterprise Applications
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Accessing Enterprise Applications
Web Part
Web Capture
App
HTML / XML
Web Part
Data Cache
App
Data Warehouse
Infrastructure-Intensive
Code-Intensive
Web Part
Point-to-Point
App
SOAP, ADO.NET, App. APIs
Web Part
Application/Integration Server
App
Application Server
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Web Capture
Strengths
Very simple to create Web Parts in minutes
Little if any code within the portal environment
Reuse a Web interface that already exists
Weaknesses
Depends on the application to provide its own Web interface
Limited ability to transform or manipulate retrieved information
Brittle to application changes
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9. Web Capture Techniques I
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Web Capture Techniques I
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10. Web Capture Techniques II
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Web Capture Techniques II
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Point To Point
Strengths
Accessing applications the way their creators intended
Maximum control over the means of retrieving, reusing information
No middleware infrastructure
Few dependencies
Weaknesses
Code intensive
Coding method varies widely by application
No transactions, concurrency, orchestration, caching, etc
Load on back-end system
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SAP Connector
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Data Cache
Strengths
Little impact on enterprise application
Web Parts need only call ADO.NET
Easy way to combine, clean, and merge data from multiple sources
Weaknesses
Requires setting up a data harvesting application
Write-back is hard
Security must be replicated
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14. Application/ Integration Server
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Application/ Integration Server
Strengths
Common method used for all Web Part-to-integration server access
Integration server handles all application access
Integration server can perform value-added transformations, orchestrations, etc
Weaknesses
Non-trivial infrastructure must be deployed and configured
Not optimal for transferring large data sets
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Setting up BizTalk
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16. A Comprehensive Platform For Portal Application Integration
WebPart Interaction
Personalization
Categorization
Search
Single Sign-On
Web
Part
Web
Part
Web
Part
SharePoint Portal Server
Portal
Single Sign-On Orchestration
Business Rules
Schema Mapping
Load Balancing
Sync/Async
Auditing
Web services
Process and Integration
Integration:
BizTalk Server
Application Server:
Windows Server 2003
BT Adapters
Connectors
SAP
Siebel
. . .
Applications

17. Key Integration Technologies
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Key Integration Technologies
SharePoint Portal Server Search
BizTalk Server 2004
Web Services
Web Parts
SharePoint Portal Server Single Sign-On Service
Sharepoint Membership database
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18. SharePoint Portal Server Single Sign-On Service
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SharePoint Portal Server Single Sign-On Service
Actually, more of a secure credential cache than what is normally termed “SSO”
Credential Mapping Database
Programmable at UI or application tier
Distributed Ticketing
Easily configured, managed, used
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19. SSO With Point-to-point Method Connecting To SAP
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SSO With Point-to-point Method Connecting To SAP
SAP .NET Connector API
Web Part invokes managed API code
Method is called
Web Part
SAP
Results are returned
SSO Service
Web Part calls SSO API to retrieve credentials
SPS DB
SSO Service fetches and decrypts credentials
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20. SSO With Biztalk Server 2004 Connecting To SAP
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SSO With Biztalk Server 2004 Connecting To SAP
SOAP call with ticket in envelope
BizTalk Adapter for Web Services
Method is called, results are returned
Adapter for SAP
BizTalk Server
Request processed, passed to SAP adapter
SSO Service
Web Part
SAP
Ticket passed to BizTalk SSO Service
SSO Service
Web Part calls SSO API to retrieve credentials
Ticket is passed back to Web Part
Ticket is redeemed for credentials
SPS DB
SSO Service fetches and creates ticket for credentials
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SPS Single Sign-On
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22. New Uses For Existing Applications
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New Uses For Existing Applications
Targeted and simplified for specific audiences
Combined on pages with related resources from other applications
Used to trigger collaborative document preparation, Web publishing, discussions, etc
Connected to other Web Parts to create composite applications
Combined with XML forms (e.g., InfoPath 2003) for adding human interaction with business process orchestration
Added to specific site definitions
Many sites can draw on the same tools and techniques
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23. Sharepoint as an Enterprise Application
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Sharepoint as an Enterprise Application
Data
Lists, forms, documents, sites
Access
Standard web services
SPS and WSS object models
Custom web services
Custom web sites
SOAP, WebDav, Frontpage RPCs
Search
Document Event Handlers
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Some useful tools
Web part toolkit
Web part installation tools
Smart parts
Frontpage dataviews
Pre built web parts
MSDN and blogs
.NET connectors with or without BizTalk
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Some web part thoughts
How will they be branded
What properties should I expose
What data should I put is configuration files
Error handling and reporting
Build helper functions
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26. Something futures to think about
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Something futures to think about
Mendocino
Indigo
SQL Server 2005
ASP.NET 2.0
BizTalk 2006
Maestro
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Call To Action
Everyone
Write Web Parts
Write Web services
Use SSO to manage credentials
Think about BizTalk Server if you have more than a single point-to-point problem
Services Organizations
An EAI phase can/should be a part of every SharePoint Portal Server-based service offering
Product Developers
Sets of Web Parts and packaged sites for specific kinds of tasks
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