Infor Open SOA Overview Guide

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Publication InformationRelease: MyDay 1.1.0

Publication Date: April 2, 2009


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Contents

About This Guide .............................................................................................................................. 4Who should use this guide? .......................................................................................................... 4

Infor Open SOA Overview ................................................................................................................5SOA ..............................................................................................................................................5Infor Open SOA.............................................................................................................................5Related documents ..................................................................................................................... 11

Contacting Infor .............................................................................................................................. 12Integration Concepts and Definitions............................................................................................ 13

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Infor Open SOA Overview

SOASOA 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 varieswidely. One approach is based on next-generation platforms, which requires large investments in

middleware infrastructure and, often, reimplementations of core applications.

Infor Open SOAInfor Open SOA is an event-driven, service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework that leverages anindustry 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 highcosts, Infor Open SOA differs greatly from the approach that other software vendors take. Infor OpenSOA makes it easy and economical to achieve the business agility and IT flexibility that are promised bySOA.

Infor Open SOA uses the Open Applications Group Integration Specifcation (OAGIS) Business ObjectsDocuments (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 usersand 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 (Inforor 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 aconfiguration in this component.

Infor Business Information Services

The Infor Open SOA common information repository allows customers to deliver information to end userson demand. This is just the runtime without any editing capabilities.

TenantThe Tenant is the container for accounting entities and locations. No data is shared or accessiblebetween 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.

ERP or otherSource Systems

BIS Data

Infrastructure

Infor MyDay

Infor Security

Metadata

Dynamic EnterpriseManagement (DEM)

Currency MDM Calendar MDMPublic Master Data

Management(Public MDM)

DeploymentConfiguration and

Administration (DCA)

Proxy Master DataManagement(Proxy MDM)

BIS Information ExportServices

Security is used by all components

On-Ramp On-Ramp On-Ramp

Infor Reporting(IR)


Business Information Services(BIS)

BIS Data Import Services



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Metrics in MyDay are generated as shown below.

Infor MyDay

BIS Data

Metric

ERP or other Source Systems

Proxy Master Data Management(Proxy MDM)

Business Information Services (BIS)Import Services

Sync BODs forTransactional Nouns

Process BODs forMaster Data Nouns

Sync BODs forMaster Data Nouns

Data Import Services


Reports in MyDay are generated as shown below.

Infor Reporting(IR)

BIS Data

ERP or other Source Systems

Proxy Master Data Management(Proxy MDM)

Business Information Services (BIS)Import Services

Process BODs forMaster Data Nouns

Sync BODs forMaster Data Nouns

Sync BODs forTransactional Nouns

Infor MyDay

Data Import Services



Report



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Related documentsThe following documents are related to Infor Open SOA and its associated applications.

For System Administrators

Installation and configuration guides

Infor MyDay Installation GuideAdministration 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 rolesUser guides Infor MyDay User Guide

Infor MyDay Content Guide



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Contacting Infor

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If you have comments about Infor documentation, contact [email protected].



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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 tointeract 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 OpenApplications Group, Inc. (OAGI).

Business Object Documents (BODs)

Messages that are defined by OAGI are called BODs. BODs contain a verb, a noun, and elements thatdescribe the data that is being sent. The BOD name is the verb plus the noun, for example,

SyncItemMaster, ProcessPurchaseOrder, and ShowInventoryBalance.

VerbThe verb describes the action that is being performed on the BOD noun, for example, Process, Load, or

Sync.

NounThe noun represents the business specific data, for example, ItemMaster or InventoryBalance.

ElementAn element is an XML tag within the BOD that describes the data. Elements may be hierarchical, for

example:

Randall P. Cole

Phone

888-555-0738

AttributeAttributes describe the elements. For example, UnitCode is the attribute here:



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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 thatpiece 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 accommodateverbs 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 verbis 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 MyDaypage is associated with one role. Users have access to the MyDay page that is assigned to their role.



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