The sample IT projects presented here contain collections of articles and tutorials that show you how to design and develop solutions end-to-end, beginning with analysis of a business problem and proceeding through requirements definition, the use of patterns to determine appropriate business applications and runtime environments, and the use of tools to model, develop, deploy, and test the architected solutions.
Business performance management:
Follow along as a fictitious retail company called International Goods and Groceries (IGG) defines business performance management and introduces you to key elements of business performance management architecture. You'll understand the pain points of International Goods and Groceries and the solutions it develops to improve daily management of its store, and how the company gains real business value from implementation of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.
Architecting an on demand solution:
Use the On Demand Operating Environment reference architecture to design and implement an on demand solution for the financial services industry, including customer enrollment, personal loan, online trading, and portfolio management scenarios. This scenario shows you how to use an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to connect disparate systems, optimize through orchestration and provisioning, create a single operations view for business and IT systems, use patterns to develop J2EE applications and ESB connectivity, manage workflow tasks, and monitor business IT services.
Merging disparate IT systems:
See how two fictitious insurance companies merge and manage their distributed and disparate IT infrastructures after a company acquisition. This series focuses on developing a set of solutions that provides a rapid return on investment by exploiting a combination of process management and enterprise application integration.
Model-driven development:
Focus on specific tools in the IBM
Rational® Software Development Platform and how they are used to model a solution for an automated assessment process. The series takes you end to end through the requirements gathering, business modeling, and application development and deployment stages of the solution development process. Along the way, integration issues, exchanges between roles of IT professionals, and the flow of development artifacts between tools are highlighted.
Transforming a supply chain business process:
Explore a methodology to implement an on demand environment to develop agile, on demand business processes. This scenario covers patterns, modeling, workflow, rules, and monitoring, and teaches you methods and techniques you can use to build reusable assets, all to support the rapid creation of on demand business processes.
Designing a mediated exchange solution:
Create customizable applications by combining business processes with business rules technologies, enforce security and privacy constraints when dealing with external partners, build Service-Oriented Architectures, integrate Web-based user interfaces into your intranets, and implement application support for pay-as-you go billing models.
On Demand Workplace for retail:
Integrate business operations and bring key information and applications to employees
through a Web-based portal in this series. Included are articles and tutorials
demonstrating how to design and develop a workplace solution using IBM Patterns for
e-business, IBM products and tools, and open standards-based technologies including
Java™, XML, and wireless.
