TIBCO Businessworks in detail

TIBCO Business works
TIBCO BusinessWorks is a scalable, extensible, and easy to use integration platform that allows you to develop integration projects.TIBCO BusinessWorks includes a graphical user interface (GUI) for defining business processes and an engine that executes the process.
TIBCO BusinessWorks also works with TIBCO Administrator, a web-based GUI for monitoring and managing run-time components.


Integration Scenario using BW
The integrated enterprise works seamlessly. Different departments and groups share communications and can together respond quickly to customer needs. With less time spent on administrative and manual tasks, employees become more productive and the integrated system yields a significant return on investment.This return increases as the company grows.

• TIBCO BusinessWorks communication throughout the enterprise
• TIBCO BW Components
  TIBCO Designer
  •TIBCO BusinessWorks engine
  •TIBCO Administrator
  •TIBCO Runtime Agent (TRA)
  •TIBCO In Concert (Optional)

• Support for Standards
  • J2EE Compliant—JMS, EJB, JNDI
  • Protocols—Web services (SOAP, WSDL), HTTP, HTTPS
  • Messaging—JMS, TIBCO Rendezvous
  • Data Description—Native support for DTD, XSD, and TIBCO AE Schema
  • Data Representation and Expressions—Native support for XML, XPath
  • Data Transformation—XSLT
• Extensibility and Scalability
• Integrated Development Environment

TIBCO Businessworks Architecture

Design-Time Architecture

TIBCO Designer GUI is used to configure adapter services and design business processes.






Architecture

Run-Time Architecture

During Run time different process engines and adapters run on the machines in the administration domain.Each component can be controlled individually from the TIBCO Administrator GUI. After all adapters and process engines have been started, process instances are created by process starters.





TIBCO BusinessWorks Features

• Messaging

• Adapters

• Business Process Modelling

• Schemas and Data Mapping

• Manual Activities



TIBCO BusinessWorks Features


Messaging

TIBCO Business Works has messaging system that can reliably handle the volume of messages that will be sent and received by it. The system has the following characteristics:

Guaranteed and fault tolerant

Distributed architecture

High Throughput

Scalable



TIBCO BusinessWorks Features


Adapters

Adapters receive information from a source application and publish it to the business process in a shared format.

Adapters subscribe to information from a business process and translate it to a format the target application can understand.

Adapters can also be set up to work in a client/server mode (using remote operations.)



TIBCO BusinessWorks Features


Adapters
TIBCO BusinessWorks fully integrates with the following adapters:

• Technology adapters—Includes adapters that access files or databases.

• Application adapters—Includes adapter for PeopleSoft, SAP R/3, Siebel, and others.



TIBCO BusinessWorks Features


Business Process Modelling

The business processes describe the actual flow of data inside the enterprise. In TIBCO BW, TIBCO Designer GUI is used to design and test processes.



TIBCO BusinessWorks Features

Business Process Modelling

Features

Configuration of adapter services.

File Read, File Write,and File Create, email activities, timers, FTP activities, etc.

A transformation tool to map the output of one activity to the input of subsequent activities.

Conditional transitions supporting XPath syntax.

Grouping of activities.

An easy-to-use design-time process debugger.



TIBCO BusinessWorks Features

Schemas and Data Mapping

Different applications in an enterprise use different data representations. For example, a purchase order in a PeopleSoft system differs from a purchase order in a Siebel customer service system. TIBCO BusinessWorks allows you to view and manipulate the data coming from and going into each service or activity using XML schemas.



TIBCO BusinessWorks Features

Schemas and Data Mapping

Data can be mapped and transformed in in the required formats.






TIBCO BusinessWorks Features

Manual Activities

BW includes a Manual Work palette with activities to add to business processes when the process requires user interaction for completion.

The ManualWork palette works with TIBCO InConcert.



TIBCO BusinessWorks Methodology

Analysis

Domain Setup

Services Configuration

Process Design

Deployment

Production



Advantages of BW

Short Deployment cycle

Scalability and extensibility

Ease of Use