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Unit 7: Applications Cases of Integration

The Common Data Format (CDF) was an event structure that was generated within notes
the Seebeyond eGate environment. Because the various applications deployed on the
legacy systems used the integration model to procure goods from vendors, the incoming
data to the EAI environment from the various applications had some common data
elements irrespective of the data formats that these applications used. For example, all
the procurement requests had information about type and quantity of the goods to be
procured. All these common elements were captured under multiple nodes in the CDF
event structure in Seebeyond. This proved useful in several ways:

The entire data structure for the whole integration model was defined using a single event
definition in Seebeyond. Now, all the incoming data into EAI could be parsed and then
mapped to the CDF event structure.

Once the data was available in the CDF, it was very easy to create the event structure as per
the target system requirement and then simply map the CDF data into that structure.
project Build, test and Deployment

After an elaborate design an architecture phase, the project entered the build phase. It is
during this period that the various integration components were developed by making use
of the Seebeyond eGate software.
As seen in Figure 5, three different environments were used for this purpose.
figure 5: Different environments for various phases of the project

case summary

The EAI solution implemented at Royal Wallace addressed all the integration requirements
of the company. It provided for an automated procurement process in place of a manual
one and seamlessly integrated all the legacy applications at the company with minimum
fuss. The changes required in the existing scenario were kept to a minimum. Moreover,
because the Common Data Format (CDF) provides a lot of flexibility to the model, any new
application can be easily incorporated with a plug-and-play kind of adaptability.

Question
Summarize the case in your own language.

Sources: http://eai.ebizq.net and http://www.eaijournal.com

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