Enterprise Applications Hub

Overview

The Enterprise Applications Hub is an enterprise level centralized routing system that enables an organization to securely exchange structured and unstructured information (files) with external parties / organizations / systems. The EAH is a lightweight full fledged and flexible Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) used by internal and external applications / systems for service communications and message interchange in a seamless manner for SOA architecture

Key Benefits

Support transmissions of files sizes ranging from small transactions which are conversational in nature to large bulk file transmissions

Support a publish and subscribe capability which will allow partners with the appropriate relationship to subscribe to information published by EPG and receive it asynchronously

Support a ‘pull’ capability which will allow partners with the appropriate relationship to request information, on demand (synchronously), which was previously published by EPG. 

Potential Use Cases

Data Distribution Framework enabling business entities like Agents / Agencies to subscribe for a variety of insurance data (Policy, Commission etc) and receive them in a standard format like ACORD and native formats using protocols such as Web Services (B2B), FTP, FTPS, SFTP, Email etc.

Service Enablement Platform: Publish legacy business functions as Services using standard Service Oriented Architecture principles.

Service Bus: Enable Internal and External applications to invoke business web services using a an uniform and consistent pattern . The Service bus provides capabilties such as Dynamic Routing,  Guaranteed Delivery, Dynamic Transformation and Data Validation using XML schemas

Extensible Services Platform: Enables an organization to build and maintain services catalog abstracting service invocation details and provide a way to discover business services in a simple and seamless manner .

Building Blocks

1. Scheduling User interfaces for Files exchange.

2. Notification component to notify the business user

3. Partner repository integration

4. Evaluation of Business Rules Policies for dynamic resolution 

5. Partner information management web portal

6. Itineraries , Orchestration and Transformation components

7. Logging and Tracing components

8. Encryption and Decryption components