The following figure explains a trading partners system that is not federated but the
information flow is through the Internet:
VPN
Internet
Firewall
Firewall
Corporate Sales Trading Partners
Back
Office
Front
Office
LAN WAN
LAN
Integration
Knowingly or unknowingly, applications and systems have been built over
decades in silos, and it is the need of the day for these applications and systems
to interchange data. At various levels depending upon the level of control, the
data can be interchanged at multiple layers, protocols, and formats. There seems
to be a general trend of "Technology of the day" solutions and systems in many
organizations. Neither this trend is going to end, nor do we need to turn back at
them. Instead, we need to manage the ever changing heterogeneity between systems.
Application and system portfolio entropy increases with technology
innovation.
Why Enterprise Service Bus
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I don't know if there is a global movement to bring standardization to innovation
in technology. This is because the moment we introduce rules and regulations
to innovation, it is no longer an innovation.
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