Key technology features of the CenterSphere service:

• Robust technology architectures to support an enterprisewide Application Service Provider (ASP) implementation
  • Multitiered application architecture
    • Separate presentation and application service components.
    • Distinct business process and business entity tiers, allowing component-based deployment and reuse.
  • Decoupled, interoperable component architecture
    • Open, message-based intercommunication protocol and infrastructure.
    • Heterogeneous service module interaction and integration.
      
      
• Use of proven technology platforms to support an enterprise-class application, including:
  • IBM WebSphere Application Server
    • EJB and Java component, Servlet, JSP, XML, and J2EE support.
    • Scalability across a wide variety of hardware and OS platforms to support different client data and processing load requirements.
    • Workload management and clustering for enhanced performance, scalability, and reliability.
    • LDAP-based security and directory services integration.
  • IBM WebSphere Business Components
    • WebSphere provides a Java-based component framework for business entity and business process implementation and execution.
    • Core functionality such as national language support and multicurrency handling.
    • Various business domain “towers” providing base functionality for modules such as CenterFinancials.
  • Oracle and IBM DB2 relational database management systems
    • High-performance transactional support.
    • High-volume data warehousing capabilities.
    • Runs across a wide variety of hardware and OS platforms.
  • IBM MQSeries Workflow
    • Business process integration platform with high transaction capability.
    • XML-based messaging interface to support open workflow invocation.
    • Based on MQSeries messaging platform for reliability and cross-platform integration capabilities.
  • IBM MQSeries
    • Enterprise-class support for messaging and queuing support across more than 35 heterogeneous platforms
    • Reliable and robust message delivery capabilities for flexible and rapid delivery of critical data
  • IBM MQSeries Integrator
    • Real-time, rules-based message routing and dynamic message content transformation and formatting.
    • Enterprise data and systems integration across a variety of heterogeneous platforms and data formats.
      
      
• Numerous application-level features and frameworks developed by Centerprise further enhance our ability to provide enterprise-class services.
  • Metadata-based Service Registry
    • Publishes business process service capabilities and interfaces.
    • End-user application access to the service directory and access to these individual services.
    • Routes service request messages to the appropriate back-end service provider (which may be EJB-based, MQ-based, or another target platform).
    • Metadata typing further supports user authorization and permissioning, based on allowed user access to certain business entity data types.
  • UI Builder Framework
    • Platform-independent view layout and definition framework, supporting various tabular, tree-based, and graphical view types.
    • View of data content provided via linkage to data services published through a Service Registry.
    • Navigations (drill-down and drill-across) supported through business entity IDs and introspection of available downstream views.
    • Current support for Win32 and HTML clients, with pure Java Swing support  in a future release.
  • Change Tracking Object Framework
    • “Trackability” of changes to business object properties over time.
    • Reproducibility of object state for historical reporting or audit purposes.
  • Global Enterprise Support
    • National Language Support (NLS) for different user locales.
    • Multicurrency reporting (and multiple exchange rate sets for different legal entities).
    • Multiple time zone support for all date/time-based attributes (to allow reporting against a global clock, e.g., UTC/GMT, or a local clock).