These are notes from a talk by Jim Kittle titled “Data “Silo” Smack Down: Enter the EIP” during the HighEdWeb 2015. Ohio State University.

• What is SMAC: Social Mobile, Analytics, Cloud; data sources from lots of sources.

Issues on the old way

• Data structure changes = downstream impact
• Direct load to data layer
• No insight into usage / frequency
• Less secure
• Less efficient
• Many consumers of data, many security process, lots of data

Enter the Enterprise Integration Platform

• Already worked out how to integrate between the different systems.
• WSO2 is the open source tool (there are several options)

Data Services Server

• Access to all data stores
• Turn a SQL Query into an API
• Eliminated the need for direct DB Access

Enterprise Service Bus

• Contral hub for all web services
• Control access to the resource level
• Throttle Services
• XML to JSON and JSON to XML
• SOAP to REST and back
• Build composite services.

API Store / Gateway

• Storefront for Developers
• Key / Token Generation
• Increases visibility into available services
• Makes the organization more agile

Peace
– KS
Web Developer at Benedictine University near Chicago