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anveshita
PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:40 am    Post subject: Systems integration, need a Questionnaire Reply with quote

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All:
In my current job I have a task to do a feasibility study on systems integration that would involve human workflow and message routing, message enhancement and transformations.
The task is:
1. To decide make or buy available products. For this I would need a template of questions to start with. I am sure many of you might have faced such task and I wonder if there is matrix/questionnaire which I can use it as a starting point to build up on.
2. If there is a buy decision, is there a questionnaire to select available products. I guess this I can get from any of the gartner reports or bit googling.

If you have any comparison matrix please let me know. I have less luck with #1 finding the right questions

Can you please help
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fjb_saper
PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:26 pm    Post subject: Re: Systems integration, need a Questionnaire Reply with quote

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anveshita wrote:
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In my current job I have a task to do a feasibility study on systems integration that would involve human workflow and message routing, message enhancement and transformations.
Can you please help

Isn't that the definition for an ESB?
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fatherjack
PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:39 pm    Post subject: Re: Systems integration, need a Questionnaire Reply with quote

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fjb_saper wrote:
Isn't that the definition for an ESB?


Dunno. Is it? Is there an agreed definition of ESB? Does it include human workflow? Or is that part of BPM? Anyway, I thought ESB was the horse that won the Grand National at Aintree in 1956 when the Queen's horse Devon Loch, ridden by the now famous author Dick Francis, and sure to win, stumbled just a few hundred yards from the finish handing victory to the Enterprise Service Bus!!! Don't remember the commentator saying that
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fatherjack
PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:47 pm    Post subject: Re: Systems integration, need a Questionnaire Reply with quote

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While lots of system integration requirements are generic e.g. data transformation, support for multiple operating systems, routing etc. your requirements are your requirements and they are unlikely to be the same as my requirements. So, as with any IT project, document your requiremnts and put them in your questionnaire.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Here I'd thought an ESB was an Extra Special Bitter that came in a bottle...
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vmcgloin
PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 1:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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A feasibility study is a preliminary study undertaken to determine and document a project's viability. These results of this study are used to make a decision whether to proceed with the project, and an analysis of possible alternative solutions to a problem and a recommendation on the best alternative.

So the first step is a needs analysis to defines the project outline and the clients' requirements.

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/the-soa-blog/soa-esb-evaluation-14060
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-esbscen/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-esbscen2.html
and since you seem to want BPM too: http://www.bpmpartners.com/downloads/bpmpartners120402.pdf

You've got a big job ahead and you can not do it without knowing the systems and processes and people at the company you are working for. I think you are really going to struggle if you think a questionnaire/matrix is going to give you the answers you need for this.
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bruce2359
PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Or your organization needs a feasibility study to determine if a feasibility study is even possible - given the lack of any definition.
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