GIS Business Process Modeling

From the Trenches

The Challenge

Wanted: A vision for an EAI architecture that distributes data extracts from SAP through GIS to multiple backend legacy systems.

The Solution

RFC-enabled functions in SAP extract the required data and spool it out to files on the SAP app server. The RFC functions are called by a GIS BP through the SAP BAPI Adapter. The functions return status information and the path and file name of the extracted data. Another BP kicks off and gets the files by FTP and passes them on to another BP that FTPs the files to the backend system.

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EAI Goes Hollywood: Paramount Pictures does EDI and EAI.

Chapter title: Design of a Loosely Coupled Architecture to Manage Critical Business Data Flows at a Major Motion Picture Studio, in “Business Process Automation: ARIS in Practice”, Springer, Berlin 2004.