Scenarios

Before implementing SOAI, we must understand all the processes, application services, and programs that exist within the enterprise. Confronted with such a monumental task, we must initially ask, How best to proceed?

The first step is to break the processes down to their scenarios, or types. For application integration, these types are rules, logic, data, and objects.

A rule is an agreed-upon set of conditions. For example, a rule may state that employees may not fly first class on flights of less than 5,000 miles or that all transactions over $1 million must be reported to the government. The rules that exist within a given enterprise are built into the applications in order to control the flow of information. Rules can also be placed ...

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