Web Services

Supporting partial or full Web Services integration

Achieving value from Web services

Santéon believes in the value of Web Services for integration, enabling the connectivity of Application, System and Components regardless of the platform that these applications are running on, the language that they are written in, or their location. At the same time, Santéon recognizes that not all organizations live in a pure Web Services environment and that the transition to a Web Services requires careful planning. However, organizations don't need to wait while their entire environment is transformed into Web Services. Using Santéon BPM Platform, organizations can start orchestrating their processes incrementally by introducing Web Services sub-systems as they become enabled and available for consumption and slowly replace legacy components without disrupting the business processes.

Business rules can be exposed and reused in any other business applications
Industry's first environment for hybrid support of mixed environments of legacy systems and Web Services, helping organizations transition increasingly to the value of Web Services
Use of open industry standards for Web Services, including WS- Reliability, WS-Security and WS-Interoperability

Santéon supports open standards

Santéon uses industry agreed upon standard such as:

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP): a lightweight XML based messaging protocol used to encode the information in Web Services request and response messages before sending them over a network. SOAP messages are independent of any operating system or protocol and may be transported using a variety of Internet protocols, including SMTP, HTTP and MIME.
Web Services Description Language (WSDL): an XML format used by services providers to describe their basic formats for requests and communication details to invoke or exchange messages.
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), for locating web services by enabling robust queries against rich metadata.

Santéon's use of Web Services

Santéon's commitment to Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture is demonstrated in the feature/functions across the BPM suite and ensures that Web Services interaction is efficient, reliable, and scalable to meet the organization's goals.
Santéon technology platform enhances Web Services Integration by optimizing its performance and communication without compromising on the value of the Services exposed. Santéon's tools assist organizations properly design Web Services that can then be consumed and orchestrated by the XIP BPM Integration Platform.

Service Oriented Design (SOD)
While industry is rapidly moving into a Service Oriented world at a fast pace, we believe that proper Service Oriented Design (SOD) is one of the most critical steps an organization should be considering carefully before engaging in a transformational exercise.

Santéon believes that SOD should be driven primarily through a careful design and articulation of the Services to be exposed within or external to the organization. Today's common approach to Web Services is to develop Interface or API wrapper functions through WSDL that represent functions around a common system. While this will indeed enable integration among Web Services, it will generate a tremendous and unmanageable overhead that could dramatically decrease the organization's efficiency as well as the underlying systems powering such integration. Santéon can help with a manageable Web services implementation.

Santéon's commitment to Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture is demonstrated by its Product offering design and feature/functions. Starting with the XIP Modeler which allows an organization Model the Web Services Interaction and Design, followed by the simulation phase, ensure that Web Services interaction is efficient, reliable, scalable and meets the organizations goals.

Santéon Technology Platform enhances Web Services Integration by optimizing its performance and communication without compromising on the value of the Services exposed. Santéon's tools enables organization properly design Web Services that can then be consumed and orchestrated by the XIP Integration Platform.

Consuming, Publishing and Orchestrating Web Services
Santéon BPM Platform supports the publishing, consumption and orchestration of Web Services.

Consuming Web Services
Santéon's XIP Workflow Designer supports the consumption of Web Services through two models:

Pure Web Services: Consuming a Web Service to be included as a component of a Workflow item, in a pure Services Oriented Architecture and via the use of Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).
Partial Web Services: Consuming a Web Service to be included as a component of a Workflow item in a hybrid environment where there is a mix of legacy Event Driven Integration environments.

Publishing Web Services
Santéon's Platform is capable of publishing Web Services to be consumed and used within the enterprise. The Web Services that Santéon expose are:

Within the Santéon BPM Platform: Communication between Human Interaction clients on Desktops, Web or Mobile devices and enterprise processes. This is through the Santéon BPM platform regardless of whether your organization uses Web Services for any systems integration.
Business Rules: Santéon Business Rules Management Engine publishes all Enterprise rules as a Web Service callable from any Web Services enabled tool. This allows you to reuse business rules across any of your other enterprise application.
Workflow components: All the components of the workflow are exposed as Web Services and can be programmatically configured from anywhere in the world.

Orchestration of Web Services
Santéon offers the industry first orchestration environment to support Web Services integration in a pure Service Oriented Orchestration (SOO) as well as hybrid environments with a mix of Web Services as well as components and legacy calls. Santéon's platform can consume any Web Service into the workflow process and perform the same level of interaction one would expect from a pure SOA Orchestration.

Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Service Oriented Architecture is an architectural style whose goal is to achieve loose coupling among interacting software agents without restriction for the platform that these agents are residing on or the language and environment that these agents are written in. The objective of SOA is to connect disparate system while providing the capability to program them and manipulate these agents using XML based standards.
At the cornerstone of the SOA is extensibility. If messages are not extensible, consumers and providers of Web Services will be locked into one particular version of a service which drastically limits their ability to adopt to process changes or business needs. Santéon's eXtensible Integration Platform (XIP) focuses on the extensibility of Web Services by providing an environment that is friendly towards change and customization.

Santéon's comprehensive product suite guides users through a proper design, integration and management of SOA from Modeling to Monitoring for Web Services performance and Quality of Service (QoS) measurement.

Santéon focused on emerging standards for Web Services
Santéon software and technology does not stop at the basic interaction of Web Services through publishing, consumption or orchestration, but rather digs deep into the technologies and standards that make Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture robust, scalable and secure. Santéon XIP platform supports emerging industry standards.

WS-Reliability. With features such as guaranteed message delivery, duplicate elimination of messages, and guaranteed message ordering, Santéon's XIP Messaging engine follows the standards and recommendation of the OASIS Web Services Reliable Messaging (WSRM) to ensure the robustness, accuracy and consistency of message delivery across Web Services.
WS-Security. SOAP Message Security for implementing security functions such as integrity and confidentiality in messages implementing higher-level Web services applications. Santéon BPM platform accommodates a wide variety of security models and encryption technologies to enable organization compliance with security standards and mandatory regulation.
WS-Interoperability. Santéon ensures that components that its platform exposes and publishes adhere to recommendation proposed by the WS-I Organization to ensure that these Web Services support new initiatives such as attachment support and other recommendations in the WS-I Profiles.