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  • Client: Leading airlines from middle east
    • Category: Airlines | IBM WebSphere Message Broker v6 | Oracle Database v10.2
  • Date: Jun 06, 2024

About the client

A multiple award-winning airline flies to over 170 destinations worldwide, connecting through its Doha hub, Hamad International Airport, the ‘Best Airport in the Middle East’ for 11 consecutive years, as well as ‘World’s Best Airport Shopping for the third year in a row, as voted by Skytrax

Client’s requirement

Build a unified integration platform, which would remove point to point integration across different IT Systems, Service Providers and offer a uniform and transparent mechanism for different clients to access information from these different ITSystems andService Providers

Cannyfore Technology Solutions​

cannyfore (CF) with its expertise in process modeling, enterprise architecture and integration combined with its domain understanding, was given the task of creating this unified integration platform

cannyfore strongly believed that a middleware with faster, reliable communication medium that can support multiple transport mediums can provide solution to its problem. We proposed IBM WebSphere Message Broker v6.1 (IBM WMB) based solution to meet this requirement. IBM WMB has the built-in multi protocol support, using which we can integrate with discrete back end systems as well expose the services over discrete protocols for the client application to make use of these services. It can also transform and route messages from disparate channels to the format, backend business systems can work with.

IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR), was used to store all the required validation, transformation, service end point and governance information. WMB uses this information for offering the dynamic behavior to support various services

IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapters (for EJB, PeopleSoft etc) were used to integrate with existing IT applications and offers their functionality as services through the integration platform

Tivoli Omegamon was used to monitor different aspects of the platform including health, usage, and performance of different components of the platform

Benefits to the Client

  • The architecture provided multiple channels for client applications to integrate with different services enabled by the integration platform.

  • The Service Oriented Architecture ( SOA) delivered significant benefits to the client such as:

  • Decoupling of the services (systems and modules) which enables better maintainability

  • A b i l i t y t o i n t e g r a t e n e w application with minimal effort (with zero coding)

  • Monitor the usage of different services at different levels like service level, channel level etc.

  • Provide long-term security and control, to let newly built and re engineered applications for more successful business processes.

Key Technologies Used

  • IBM WebSphere Message Broker v6.
  • IBM WebSphere MQ v6.0
  • WebSphere Service Registry and Repository v6.1
  • Oracle v10.2
  • Tivoli Omegamon v6.2
  • IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapters (EJB, PeopleSoft etc)
  • High Availability Cluster Multi Processing (HACMP)
  • AIX

Architecture

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