Creating Architectural Design Plan

Your architectural design plan details the ways that you use Sterling B2B Integrator, and the components and features you employ in the process.

This stage is perhaps the most intensive part of your overall implementation. The more accurate and detailed your plans are, the more efficiently your implementation will progress.

Your plan must center on determining the processes that your business must automate and integrate. These processes must include high-level considerations, such as plans to:

Set up clusters or use multiple nodes
Perform internodal document tracking
Create trading partner communities
Use the perimeter service and other components in the DMZ

The planning process becomes complex as you study it from a software perspective and consider how you want to achieve the objectives.

For each process, IBM® professionals can help you to define the business process model you will create in Sterling B2B Integrator, including the services, adapters, components, and technologies you require, the systems that Sterling B2B Integrator will interact with, and provide information about what exactly has to happen to the data at each step in a process. All these factors determine your system size.