As a Premier partner of IBM, Miracle has gained deep expertise in IBM products; our senior consultants participated in following IBM Redbook residencies:

SOA/BPM

• Business Process Management: Modeling through Monitoring Using WebSphere V6 Products

  This IBM Redbook publication presents a business process management ( BPM) "improvement cycle" scenario, showing how a business can use a full business integration solution to complete the following tasks: Model and simulate a business process, Develop and test an application to implement the business process, Deploy and run the application on a server, Implement and test business measures, Monitor the application to observe pre-determined key performance indicators, Import the observed data to make revisions to the original process model.

Business Integration

• Implementing WebSphere Business Integration Express for Item Synchronization

  This IBM Redbook publication explains the concepts of UCCnet, AS2 communications. UCCnet has implemented multi-industry standards for product identification and related electronic communications. AS2 communications in securely exchanging business documents over the Internet. ISofts Peer-to-Peer Agent, here after referred to as P2PAgent, enables you to exchange documents between trading partners over the Internet in a secure and reliable way. This book explains the concepts which describe WebSphere BI Express installation, configuration and Verification, configuring the AS2 connection. This IBM Redbook covers IBM WebSphere Business Integration Express for Item Synchronization, which is designed for mid-market suppliers pursuing supply chain integration through the UCCnet GLOBAL registry.

• Using Web Services for Business Integration

  This IBM Redbook explains the concept of how Web service technologies can be used in combination with various components and products of the WebSphere Business Integration family and Web services based application. This application is then used in integration scenarios based on message flow technology in WebSphere BI Message Broker and collaborations in WebSphere InterChange Server. A third component of the WebSphere Business Integration family is WebSphere Business Integration Adapters. This publication investigates the use of these adapters based on Web service technologies. This publication shows the value of exposed message flows and collaborations by invoking them from within Process Choreographer, which is a flow engine running in WebSphere Application Server Enterprise.

• WebSphere Business Integration Pub/Sub Solutions.

  The first part of this IBM Redbook provides an overview of various technologies needed for the development of Publish/Subscribe applications in IBM WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker (within IBM WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker) using Java Message Service (JMS). This book help you in insatalling and configuring and administrating of WBI Event Broker. Publication documents a business case scenario which demonstrates high message rate and high availability handled by IBM WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker using both Java Message Service using Internet Protocol (JMS-IP) and Java Message Service using Websphere Message Queue (JMS-MQ). A sample set of applications and shows how to develop the Pub/Sub infrastructure to meet different sets of business requirements. The scenarios cover configurations involving multicast, cloned brokers, persistence and stream-crossing.

• Implementation of iSoft and Integration with an EAI solution

  This IBM Redpaper describes the implementation of an AS/2 client product, iSoft's P2PAgent, in an environment with multiple trading partners. This book also discussed the implementation of the P2PAgent program between two trading partner that configuration is then extended to multiple partners. It describe how to work with the EDI translation product WebSphere Data Interchange. The Redpaper explains both the inbound and outbound flow for a purchase order and a purchase order acknowledgement. The integration platform and how CrossWorlds interacts with WebSphere Data Interchange and iSoft's P2PAgent. The implementation of a fail-over solution for those situations where Internet connectivity between trading partners cannot be established. The fail-over solution uses IBM Expedite and the IBM VAN (Value-added Network) and how to configure iSoft's P2PAgent and Expedite so that we have a fail-safe solution.

• WebSphere Business Integration for SAP

  The WebSphere Business Integration architecture provides different Integration brokers and a multitude of application and technology adapters. It is an essential software component in IBM's e-business on demand strategy. SAP Exchange Infrastructure is SAP?s strategic technology platform for process integration and connectivity of SAP components and non-SAP components. This IBM Redbook illustrates how to integrate data and processes located in SAP back-end systems using WebSphere Business Integration middleware technology.

• Migrating WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation to WebSphere Process Server & Best Practices

  In this IBM® Redbooks publication, discusses the concepts, differences, and migration paths that you must understand before you attempt to migrate the artifacts that you created using the IBM WebSphere® Studio Application Developer Integration Edition 5.1 product to the IBM WebSphere Integration Developer 6.0.2. This paperalso include a discussion on how to migrate models that are developed in WebSphere Business Integration Modeler 5.1 to WebSphere Business Modeler 6.0.2.

Portals

• A Secure Portal Extended With Single Sign-On

  In this Redbook has the procedure for implementing a secure portal using an external security manager. This provides a centralized access management system. It is also a basis for creating an SSO domain for multiple applications that can share common user credentials. However, back-end applications can still exist outside of this domain because of a need for specific custom user IDs and passwords. For these, we can use credential mapping to map the common credential to the back-end one. This is implemented as Credential Service in WebSphere Portal.

• IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 Handbook

  This IBM Redbook positions the IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms as the solution to best address the process of building scalable and reliable business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) portals.The IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 Handbook help understand the WebSphere Portal architecture, how to install, tailor and configure WebSphere Portal, and how to administer and customize portal pages using WebSphere Portal.This redbook discusses about the installation of IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms within the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, IBM AIX, SuSE SLE8 Linux, Solaris 8, and zLinux environments using Setup Manager. The ability to set up a clustered environment is covered, as well as a demonstration of migrating from WebSphere Portal V4.2 to V5.0.

Commerce

• Integrating WebSphere Commerce with SAP R/3 Using WebSphere InterChange Server

  This IBM Redbook gives an overview of the main integration scenarios, namely the user interface, application, or data-level integration. Several chapters in the book describe the integration architecture used during the project to write this redbook. They discuss installing WebSphere Commerce, the WebSphere InterChange Server, and SAP R/3. Then they explain how to create a customer registration message in WebSphere Commerce to be sent to WebSphere InterChange Server and then to SAP R/3. Finally this redbook discusses problem determination. It explains what can go wrong and how to debug.

B2B

• B2B Solutions Using WebSphere Business Connection

  This IBM redbook describes the use of the WebSphere Business Connection product to create business-to-business solutions. The first part of the redbook introduces B2B concepts and discusses in detail the installation, configuration and validation of a WebSphere Business Connection platform.The second part of the redbook describes the design, implementation and deployment of an order processing application between the suppliers of a retailer and the retailer itself.The third part of the redbook describes the design, implementation and deployment of an order processing application between trading partners that are connected via a service provider that has implemented WebSphere Business Connection .

• A B2B Solution using WebSphere Business Integration V4.1 and WebSphere Business Connection V1.1

  This IBM Redbook describes the use of the WebSphere Business Connection product to create business-to-business solutions, installation, configuration, and validation of a WebSphere Business Connection platform. This setup involves the preparation of several B2B gateway components, such as CrossWorldsTPI for AS/2 communication, WebSphere Data Interchange for EDI data translation, and the Web Services Gateway for the invocation of Web services between trading partners. Today, e-commerce means much more than just EDI: it means supporting interactive Web sites; it means enabling the communications with multiple exchanges; it means using XML and the Internet to conduct interactive business-to-customer and business-to-business communications.

• Implementing EDI Solutions

  This IBM Redbook introduces the reader to the world of EDI. WebSphere Data Interchange is discussed as the translation engine to map EDI documents to and from documents in other formats and also introduces two communication products that use Internet technologies: iSoft's P2PAgent and Trading Partner Interchange. This books helps in Implementing multi-product AS/2 communication with trading partners.UCCnet and item synchronization via iSoft and TPI. ICS and TPI interact via the TPI connector.Implementing a back-up solution using IBM Expedite and the IBM VAN and how it can be combined with iSoft to create a solution with full reliability. When Internet connectivity is temporarily not available, a trading partner has the ability to use Expedite to dial into IBM?s network and send or receive EDI documents. By exploiting the recycle mechanics in iSoft's P2PAgent, we can implement a solution that provides a highly available connection between trading partners.

• Interoperability of iSoft P2PAgent and Trading Partner Interchange

  This IBM Redpaper describes the implementation of AS/2 client products, iSoft's P2PAgent and Trading Partner Interchange in an environment with multiple trading partners. The concepts which discuss the implementation of TPI between two trading partners and then that configuration is extended with another partner that is using iSoft's P2PAgent.The implementation of TPI is the interaction with back-office applications.This book explains both the inbound and outbound flow for a purchase order and a purchase order acknowledgement. The use of Interchange Server as the integration platform and how the ICS interacts with WebSphere Data Interchange and TPI and also interoperability of AS/2 providers where two partners are using TPI and another partner is using iSoft's P2PAgent.