Enterprise Integration Practitioner - United Kingdom

Enterprise Integration Practitioner Course Outline

Integration Overview:

• Present a standardised definition for integration
• Describe the primary drivers & goals for Integration as an Enterprise capability
• Scope of integration – across applications, domains, B2B
• Frame the way in which we talk about integration – interactions, platform, portfolio
• Provide an overview of the evolution of integration
• Introduce Service Oriented Integration (SOI) and concept of a service
• Introduce API
• Discuss overall Principles, Standards & Patterns
• Provide an overview of Integration Lifecycle
• Provide an overview of typical roles and responsibilities in Integration
• Present a reference architecture including capabilities, roles and enabling technologies
• Discuss the future of integration – API Monetisation, IoT, Big Data

Integration Technology Concepts:

• Overview of Integration Technologies and the capabilities they provide
• Technology Selection and Implementation Principles & Standards
• Deployment models and selection considerations
• Performance and Scaling considerations
• Introduce Protocols and Message Formats
• Introduce Web Services – REST, SOAP
• Describe Service & API Contracts
• Continuous Integration & Delivery
• Supporting tooling for managing the lifecycle – Governance, design, and monitoring

Integration Analysis:

• Why and What of Integration Analysis
• Approach to performing Integration Analysis
• Executing the analysis methodology:
  • Extracting systems and functional scope
  • Identifying functional interactions and systems
  • Defining Integration Style
  • Defining Systems Data Format & Mapping Rules
  • Defining non-functional requirements
  • Identify re-use / new candidates

Integration Architecture & Design:

• Service Oriented design – how it differs from traditional methods
• Service Design Principles, Standards & Guidelines:
  • Introduction to Business Capability, Common Information & Service Models
  • Service Portfolio & layers – what are they and techniques for establishing
  • Service Design & Delivery Method – profiling, definition, implementation
  • Common use cases and implementation patterns
  • Designing for performance and non-functional considerations: error handling & recovery, scalability, availability, traceability
  • API Management – definition, lifecycle, monetization

Governance & Project Management:

• What to govern – across interaction, platform, and portfolio & responsibilities
• Integration Governance Programs, Models and Controls
• Establishing a governance program
• Organisational roles in relation to Governance
• Governance processes:
  • Governing Adoption Planning – maturity assessment, technology selection
  • Governing analysis, design, development, testing and deployment
  • Governing usage, monitoring, discovery & versioning, retirement
• Service contract and schema reviews
• Authoring Governance Artifacts
• Integration Delivery Methodologies – how they relate to typical delivery methodologies (agile, waterfall)
• Techniques for successfully managing integration projects