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Meeting Report
The Open Group / EAIIC Workshop
San Diego, CA - Tuesday, February 3rd 2004
Objectives of Meeting
- To bring together representatives from the Enterprise Application Integration Industry
Consortium and The Open Group's Architecture Forum, with a view to exploring potential
synergies.
Summary
This workshop brought together representatives from two industry consortia that have
common goals around the integration of large-scale systems to enable global enterprise
interoperability in a secure, reliable and timely manner.
The Open Group articulates this vision as "Boundarlyess Information Flow" -
the ability to put in place infrastructure services that bring information together and
provide that information to the users and applications that need it.
The Enterprise Application Integration Industry Consortium (EAIIC) promotes Enterprise
Application Integration through sponsored research, the establishment of standards and
guidelines, best practices, and articulation of strategic and measurable benefits. It
focuses on "the Quest for Measurable Business Value" deriving from the ability
to effectively integrate large-scale systems that were independently developed and remain
independently managed.
Both consortia stress the need for a business driven approach to integration solutions,
and both have proven methodologies that can help address the key problems involved.
The goal of the workshop was to share information, and explore the goals and methods of
each consortium with a view to identifying opportunities for synergy and collaboration.
On behalf of the EAI Industry Consortium, the following presentations were made:
- "Global
Integration Framework", by John Schmidt, EAI Industry Consortium Director. John
explained the need for a discipline that is fundamentally different from the traditional
Systems Development Life Cycle approach when attempting to integrate large-scale systems
that were independently developed, and remain independently managed.
- "EAI
Principles & Foundation for TBI", by John Sschmidt. In his role as EAIIC
Chairman - Methodology Committee, John presented five EAI “laws” that any
integration methodology must follow if it is to be effective, and outlined a set of ten
principles as a “starter set” for working towards a mature best practice in this
area.
- "Total
Business Integration", by Steve Field, Chairman Best Practices Committee, and
Ajay Anand, Johnson & Johnson. This was an outline of the Total Business
Integration (TBI) Methodology, first created at Johnson & Johnson for enterprise use,
and currently proposed as the basis for a global integration best practice by the EAI
Industry Consortium.
- "Vendor
Perspective" by S. Winters, IBM Industry Solutions, was a vednor view of the
challenges in the application integration space.
- "End
User Perspective", by David White, Johnson & Johnson, and
Ajay Anand, Johnson & Johnson, covered the challenges in building an Enterprise
Integration Strategy, and the application of TBI to a large integration project.
On behalf of The Open Group:
- Terry Blevins present The Open Group's Boundaryless
Information Flow initiative.
- Chris Greenslade, Chair of The Open Group Architecture Forum, outlined The Open
Group's enterprise architecture framework and method, TOGAF.
The final session of the workshop was a facilitated discussion that explored potential
synergies, solicited feedback from participants, and identified individuals interested in
participating further in collaborative work.
Outputs
The objective of the meeting were fulfilled:
- There was an excellent exchange of information and detailed discussions of each
consortium's goals, objectives, and methodologies.
Next Steps
- There was agreement to present TOGAF at the EAIIC's Integration Summit at Banff, Canada,
in May 2004.
Links
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