DataXtend Semantic Integrator (SI)
Achieve data interoperability with common-model-based data services inside your Service-oriented Architecture.
Reduce the complexity and risk in your service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations with Progress® DataXtend® Semantic Integrator (SI). With DataXtend SI, your analysts, architects and developers can create, maintain and govern common-model-based data services inside your SOA, providing data interoperability that fulfills the promise of SOA.
If your enterprise adopted service-oriented architecture (SOA) to improve agility, and then faced an implementation and maintenance process plagued by complexity, it's likely that one of the major culprits was data integration. A study conducted by Forrester Consulting for Progress, found that over 80% of organizations amplified the complexity by reconciling physical data level differences between applications and services with hand-coded point-to-point mappings.
DataXtend SI increases flexibility and decreases complexity of data services so you can finally reap all the benefits of your SOA. With DataXtend SI all mediation, governance, and change management of data integration, the entire lifecycle, is done in one place.
At the center of DataXtend SI are two components, the Designer and the Engine:
- Progress® DataXtend® SI Designer™ is a complete graphical design environment for creating and managing Exchange Models (mediations between applications and services with different structures and semantics), rules, and data services. DataXtend SI Designer imports existing schemas for data sources, data services, and the common information model, where they can be enriched with transformation and validation rules using DataXtend SI's comprehensive set of visual tools.
- Progress® DataXtend® SI Engine™ is the runtime component of the DataXtend SI architecture. At runtime, data is dynamically converted and validated before it is submitted to backend systems. All data services use standard interfaces for incorporation into any business process or target application. The output of DataXtend SI Engine is Java, running as stateless services with optimal performance.
DataXtend SI helps create Exchange Models to minimize data integration complexity. Working without Exchange Models for your SOA can be like walking a tightrope without a net. Click the Magic Eye® image below to see what we mean.
- See where data is flowing, and how, between integrated applications and services.
- Produce higher quality deliverables with integrated testing tools.
- Manage risk from change through impact analysis.
- Build on industry standard information/data models to jump start your projects.
- Improve the quality of the data flowing between your applications and services when you define complex validations and business rules at the entity-level.
- Simplify the use of complex models through computed attributes; streamline communications between members of your team.
- Manage changes with governance and life-cycle management tools.
- Preserve your investment and deploy to your existing SOA environment.
The common-model driven approach to data integration is a pragmatic and cost effective solution to reconciling semantic differences. DataXtend SI delivers the features and tools you need to promote data interoperability across enterprise boundaries.
- Design Environment for Creating and Managing Models - DataXtend's design environment helps you create and manage models, rules, and data services. You can import existing schemas for data sources, data services, and the common information model, where they are enriched with transformation and validation rules using DataXtend SI's comprehensive set of visual tools. DataXtend SI also exports models as XSDs and WSDL files to create new data services.
- Dynamically Convert and Validate Data Before it is Submitted - When you use the runtime component of the DataXtend SI architecture, data is dynamically converted and validated before it is submitted to backend systems. All data services use standard interfaces for incorporation into any business process or target application. The output of DataXtend SI Engine is Java.
- Model the Impact of Changes Before Production - The Exchange Model is the basis of robust change management. Since applications and services are linked to a common model, you can visualize and report on how information flows between all of the interconnected components. With DataXtend SI's Impact Analysis tools you can model the impact of a requirements change and evaluate how it will affect the production environment. The reports provide information that you can use to make well informed decisions regarding project resources and timelines.
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DataXtend SI Designer DataXtend Engine |
SOA Platforms Database Support Java Support |
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