Infor Open SOA Overview Guide

Infor Open SOA
Overview Guide
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Release: MyDay 1.1.0 Publication Date: April 2, 2009
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Contents
About This Guide .............................................................................................................................. 4 Who should use this guide? .......................................................................................................... 4 Infor Open SOA Overview ................................................................................................................ 5 SOA .............................................................................................................................................. 5 Infor Open SOA............................................................................................................................. 5 Related documents ..................................................................................................................... 11 Contacting Infor .............................................................................................................................. 12 Integration Concepts and Definitions............................................................................................ 13
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About This Guide

This guide includes: An overview of the Infor Open SOA concept. A brief introduction to the integration concepts and components.
Who should use this guide?

This guide is intended mainly for system administrators who implement the integration between the application and Infor On-Ramp, or who need to troubleshoot or trace data back from BIS to Infor ERP.
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Infor Open SOA Overview
SOA
SOA is a new way to build and deploy software to allow customers to respond quickly and economically to changing business requirements. The manner in which SOA helps companies attain this benefit varies widely. One approach is based on next-generation platforms, which requires large investments in middleware infrastructure and, often, reimplementations of core applications.
Infor Open SOA

Infor Open SOA is an event-driven, service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework that leverages an industry standard business language to distribute data between Infor solutions and other systems. A solution with built-in capabilities that provides the benefits of SOA without the complexities and high costs, Infor Open SOA differs greatly from the approach that other software vendors take. Infor Open SOA makes it easy and economical to achieve the business agility and IT flexibility that are promised by SOA. Infor Open SOA uses the Open Applications Group Integration Specifcation (OAGIS) Business Objects Documents (BODs) to allow SOA-enabled solutions to interoperate with any other solution that supports the same business document. Therefore, companies can connect their solutions once and then interoperate with other solutions.
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Overview Infor Open SOA components

Infor User Experience Infor Security Infor Dynamic Enterprise Management Infor On-Ramp (Service Bus) Infor Master Data Management (MDM) Infor Business Information Services
Infor User Experience

The Infor User Experience is the Infor Web 2.0 user interface framework for new SOA components, which gives users a rich Web-based user experience.
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Infor Security
Infor Security is a separately deployed set of components that helps customers centrally manage users and their roles, as well as monitor compliance of their Infor software licensing. Infor Security consists of these components: Single Sign On (SSO) License Monitoring
Infor Dynamic Enterprise Management (DEM)

DEM is the common required functionality to run Infor Open SOA, and is an event-driven business process management solution that enables business control, monitoring, and optimization. Workflow Choreography Event Monitoring
Infor Deployment Configuration and Administration (DCA)

DCA is the Infor Open SOA installer that ensures components can be deployed using OSGi technology, and allows you to deploy On-Ramp for existing or established applications. Infor Component Framework After you have configured DEM and deployed DCA, all On-Ramps are informed and activated, which ties all solutions together.
Infor On-Ramp
Infor On-Ramp provides the guaranteed information exchange between SOA-enabled components (Infor or non-Infor). This is the new technology that replaces the ESB in our new SOA framework.
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Infor Master Data Management (MDM)

MDM is the SOA component that manages all master data. Each set of master data is delivered as a configuration in this component.
Infor Business Information Services

The Infor Open SOA common information repository allows customers to deliver information to end users on demand. This is just the runtime without any editing capabilities.
Tenant
The Tenant is the container for accounting entities and locations. No data is shared or accessible between two tenants, which is useful in environments where more than one customer is sharing an enterprise software deployment, such as hosting.
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Infor Open SOA and MyDay

The following figure shows relationships between elements of the system, including the following flows: Source systems send Business Object Documents (BODs) to Infor On-Ramp. Infor On-Ramp provides BODs to other applications, including Business Information Services (BIS). BIS Data Import Services stores the data in the BIS Database. BIS Information Export Services provides data from the BIS Database to consumers such as Infor Reporting or MyDay. Reports and metrics are displayed in MyDay.
BIS Data
ERP or other Source Systems
Business Information Services (BIS) BIS Data Import Services
BIS Information Export Services Infor Reporting (IR)
BIS Information Export Services Infor MyDay
On-Ramp
On-Ramp
On-Ramp
Metadata
Currency MDM
Calendar MDM
Public Master Data Management (Public MDM)
Infor Security Dynamic Enterprise Management (DEM)
Infrastructure Deployment Configuration and Administration (DCA) Proxy Master Data Management (Proxy MDM)
Security is used by all components
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Metrics in MyDay are generated as shown below.
ERP or other Source Systems Sync BODs for Transactional Nouns
Business Information Services (BIS) Import Services Data Import Services
Process BODs for Master Data Nouns
Sync BODs for Master Data Nouns
Proxy Master Data Management (Proxy MDM)
BIS Data
BIS Information Export Services Infor MyDay
Metric
Reports in MyDay are generated as shown below.
ERP or other Source Systems Sync BODs for Transactional Nouns
Business Information Services (BIS) Import Services Data Import Services
Process BODs for Master Data Nouns Sync BODs for Master Data Nouns
Proxy Master Data Management (Proxy MDM)
BIS Data
Report
BIS Information Export Services Infor Reporting (IR)
Infor MyDay BIS Information Export Services
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Related documents
The following documents are related to Infor Open SOA and its associated applications.
For System Administrators

Installation and configuration guides
Infor MyDay Installation Guide
Administration guides
Infor MyDay System Administration Guide Infor MyDay Integration Guides
Customization guides
Infor Business Information Systems User Guide Infor Calendars Master Data Management User Guide Infor Currency Master Data Management User Guide Infor Public Master Data Management User Guide Infor Reporting User Guide Infor Common Services Infrastructure (CSI) User Guide Infor Data Publisher Toolkit User Guide Infor Dynamic Enterprise Management User Guide Infor Deployment, Configuration and Administration User Guide
For users in non-administrative roles

User guides
Infor MyDay User Guide Infor MyDay Content Guide
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Contacting Infor
If you have questions about Infor products, go to Infor365 Online Support at http://www.infor365.com. If you do not have an Infor365 account, click Register now and complete the registration. You will receive a logon ID and a password within 24 hours. When you access Infor365, you have these options: To access Infor knowledge bases, incidents, documentation, software downloads, and community discussion forums, click a link from the top menu of the home page. To add an incident, select one of these options from the Incidents menu: Add Product Incident: Specify your product, version, and other details so that your incident report is sent directly to the support group. Add General Information Request: Use this option for all other requests.
To find your regions Customer Support telephone number, click Contact Infor in the upper-right corner of the home page, specify a product name, and click Search. If you have comments about Infor documentation, contact documentation@infor.com.
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Integration Concepts and Definitions

This section includes definitions and brief explanations of integration concepts. For additional information, see the Infor On-Ramp documentation.
Infor On-Ramp
The Infor Service Oriented Architecture is based on stand-alone components that use messages to interact with other components. Infor On-Ramp is the enterprise messaging system that processes and delivers the messages. The messages are based on concepts that are developed by the Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGI).
Business Object Documents (BODs)

Messages that are defined by OAGI are called BODs. BODs contain a verb, a noun, and elements that describe the data that is being sent. The BOD name is the verb plus the noun, for example, SyncItemMaster, ProcessPurchaseOrder, and ShowInventoryBalance. Verb The verb describes the action that is being performed on the BOD noun, for example, Process, Load, or Sync. Noun The noun represents the business specific data, for example, ItemMaster or InventoryBalance. Element An element is an XML tag within the BOD that describes the data. Elements may be hierarchical, for example:
<Contact> <Name>Randall P. Cole</Name> <Communication> <UseCode>Phone</UseCode> <DialNumber>888-555-0738</DialNumber> </Communication> </Contact>
Attribute Attributes describe the elements. For example, UnitCode is the attribute here:
<Quantity UnitCode="EA">
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System of Record (SOR)

The system that owns a particular type of data is the System of Record. Within the SOA environment, only one system can be a system of record for a given data type. The SOR publishes all changes for that piece of information through a Sync message to Infor On-Ramp.
Routing of messages
Depending on the verb, Infor ESB routes messages by either a point-to-point or a broadcast method. Point-to-point messages are sent from one component to another component, and they accommodate verbs such as Load, Process, and Get. Broadcast messages use a publish-and-subscribe approach, which means that the SOR sender publishes a message to a topic. Any application that uses Infor On-Ramp can subscribe to the topic and receive a copy of the message. Broadcast messages accommodate verbs such as Sync. The Sync verb is used by the SOR to notify other applications of new or updated documents.
Infor MyDay
MyDay displays system related information for predefined user "roles." Roles specify user access to Infor application functions and features. "Shipping Clerk and Buyer are examples of user roles. Each MyDay page is associated with one role. Users have access to the MyDay page that is assigned to their role.
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