Product overview

IBM® Sterling Transformation Extender performs transformation and routing of data from source systems to target systems in batch and real-time environments. The sources may include files, relational databases, MOMs (message-oriented middleware), packaged applications, or other external sources. After retrieving the data from its sources, the IBM Sterling Transformation Extender product transforms it and routes it to any number of targets, providing the appropriate content and format for each target system.

The IBM Sterling Transformation Extender product delivers the following:

  • connectivity to a wide range of mainframe, legacy, and enterprise applications, databases, messaging systems, and external information sources
  • a comprehensive library of pre-built functions to reduce development time and simplify specification of rules for validation, transformation, and routing
  • multiple execution options to support right-time, right-style transformation-whether it is batch, real-time, or embedded
  • enterprise-class capabilities for development, deployment, and maintenance plus high-availability platform support.

This reduces on-going administration and implementation risks and delivers results sooner than hand-coding.

IBM Sterling Transformation Extender is a runtime environment that implements both event-driven and command-driven integration for:

  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications
  • Supply Chain Management (SCM) applications
  • other off-the-shelf applications
  • customer-developed, in-house applications
  • direct, business-to-business integration
  • business community integration
  • integration with trade networks, net markets, and business service providers

In IBM Sterling Transformation Extender terms, an integration solution consists of a system of related interfaces, implemented as rule-based maps, that consume and produce data in support of a business process. Maps define interfaces between applications, data stores, middleware, and other maps.