1. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 1 Extraprise Information Factory Naeem Hashmi Chief Technology Officer Information Frameworks e-mail: nhashmi@infoframeworks.com Web: http://infoframeworks.com An Architecture for Next generation of eBusiness Applications January 8, 2002 Webinar on TechTarget.com

2. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 2 About the Speaker Founder and CTO of Information Frameworks, an author, speaker and world-renowned expert on emerging eBusiness Intelligence Technologies. Author of the best selling book titled, SAP Business Information Warehouse for SAP. Member of Intelligent ERP magazine's board of editors, is a frequent speaker at IT industry conferences including SAP TechEd, ASUG, Oracle Open World, DCI, The ERP World, and the Data Warehouse Institute. 24+ years of experience in emerging Information Technology research, development, and management, Information Architectures; Enterprise Application Integration e-business; ERP applications; Data Warehousing; Data Mining; CRM; Internet, Object and Client/Server Technologies and Strategic Consulting. Email- nhahsmi@infoframeworks Web Site: ‘http://infoframeworks.com Tel: 603-432-4550 Naeem Hashmi

3. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 3 Agenda Why another Technical Information Architecture ? The State of Business Applications Architectures Evolution of Technical Information Architectures The Future eBusiness Application Building Blocks The Extraprise Information Factory – EIF - A Technical Information Architecture for the future Enterprise Applications –Ten Guiding Principals for the EIF –Technical Architecture - Layers Can we implement an EIF ? Q&A

4. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 4 Why another Technical Information Architecture? Traditional Business Climate has changed Today Source: The Computer World, July 2000 Thank You.

5. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 5 Why another Technical Information Architecture? Traditional Business Climate has changed Today Wow. Banker must be in a good mood today. Donations were much higher than the past 3 years! Gee.. Thanks Let me check Banker’s giving History I should e-mail his Tax Attorney a note for Charity Donations. Source: The Computer World, July 2000 BUT, First, Let me also check banker’s Donations to others compared to me! Not Good. He is giving more to others sitting around the corner. 1 2 3 4 5 Tomorrow Big Question? Why What am I doing wrong here? Am I not dress well? or Am I not cute? or My Intelligence Service Provider is not sending me right information To target right donors at the right corner at the right time? 6 7 A big cultural change – Providing intelligence services to the masses …A Utility An extremely complex task to implement Integrated and Business Intelligence-aware Internet centric Environment

6. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 6 The State of Business Applications? Business Apps., Internet, and Intelligence convergence! Legacy Applications Internet & e-Business

7. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 7 Evolution of Technical Information Architectures TA1 TA2 VITAL … Data Collection Left Side Data Access Right Side Business Applications Data Warehouses End User Services Dictionary/ Reference Virtually Integrated Technical Architecture Life cycle * *

8. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 8 Data Collection Side - Architecture Main-Frame Centric – 2 Tier Client Server- 2/3 Tiers Internet- multi-Tiers ERP- Integrated – multi-Tiered

9. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 9 Data Collection Left Side Data Access Right Side End User Services Dictionary/ Reference The Data Access Side - Architecture This term Information Factory is often used to describe information life cycle within an organization from origination to its active end- of-life and beyond. The Corporate Information Factory, as proposed by Bill Inmon, is an architecture that defines wide array of data stores and associated processes to run the Information Factory – but limited to decision support applications. Ref: http://billinmon.com The Corporate Information Factory

10. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 10 The Extraprise Information Factory-EIF “The Extraprise Information Factory is a Technical Architecture to construct and deploy scalable, extendable, distributable and integrated solutions needed to support business critical applications.” Under this architecture, the Strategic, Tactical, eBusiness, Business Intelligence and Operational applications are tightly integrated under common infrastructure. The integration is value based rather technology focuses and Business Intelligence is at the core of business critical applications. Definition

11. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 11 Data Collection Left Side Data Access Right Side End User Services Dictionary/ Reference The EIF Architecture Content Analytics Strategic TA2  CIF  EIF Intelligent Infragistic CRM Tactical B2x Integration Portal Information Flow Collaboration

12. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 12 eBusiness Components INFRAGISTICS Business Strategies Enterprise Operations Customer Value Chain Partners and Suppliers Intranet & Internet

13. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 13 eBusiness Components

14. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 14 eBusiness Business Components

15. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 15 Ten Guiding Principals for the EIF 1.Tightly Integrated with Strategic and Tactical Business Operations and Internet ready 2.Consistent Infrastructure for most Business critical Operations 3.Business Intelligence is not an after thought rather an integral part of strategic business planning 4.Portal Centric 5.Collaborative Environment

16. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 16 Ten Guiding Principals for the EIF 6.Change-aware 7.API centric 8.Platform Independent 9.Open, Extendable, Scalable, Distributable 10.Global Operations

17. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 17 The EIF – Technical Layers

18. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 18 The EIF – Technical Layers

19. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 19 Can We Implement an EIF? Yes. By exploiting ERP Infrastructure –SAP –ORACLE –PeopleSoft Probably Not if you start from scratch. It is just too complex – EAI/ETL vendors future directions (DIPs) –Tibco -webMethods-Acta –Mercator -Viteria-Ascential –seeBeyond-BEA Systems-Informatica –IBM-IBI-DataMirror Also depends on your –Business Model –Current applications landscape –Financial state –Culture

20. Copyrights - Information Frameworks, January 8, 2002 20 Extraprise Information Factory Naeem Hashmi Chief Technology Officer Information Frameworks e-mail: nhashmi@infoframeworks.com Web Site: ‘http://infoframeworks.com Tel: 603-432-4550 OPEN FOR DISCUSSION