eQube®-DaaS Platform
eQube® Data as a Service (DaaS) platform establishes a Data Fabric with connected network of integrated data, applications and devices that puts the power of analytics in the hands of end users leading to Actionable Insight. Data from any source can be aggregated using eQube's Data Virtualization layer and exposed as a Web-service, REST service, OData service or API. This rapid and flexible capability to expose data as a service/API is at the heart of efficiently delivering eQube-DaaS based solutions in an Integrated Data Environment (IDE).
eQube®-DaaS platform establishes an enterprise class scalable framework to: efficiently and rapidly integrate many legacy systems and new COTS (commercial off the shelf) systems, responsibly retire legacy systems in an orderly manner without disrupting the business, rapidly implement intuitive end-user centric 'for-purpose' applications and provide on-demand 'visibility' across the business processes with analytics and business intelligence (A/BI) capabilities.
eQube®-DaaS platform establishes an enterprise class scalable framework to: efficiently and rapidly integrate many legacy systems and new COTS (commercial off the shelf) systems, responsibly retire legacy systems in an orderly manner without disrupting the business, rapidly implement intuitive end-user centric 'for-purpose' applications and provide on-demand 'visibility' across the business processes with analytics and business intelligence (A/BI) capabilities.
Businesses across industries have established organizational goals to dramatically increase their productivity and have embraced Digital Transformation/Digitalization as long-term strategies to realize those goals. Productivity is measured in terms of financial performance, increased speed and throughput in all parts of their businesses, and reduction in NVA (non-value-added) time and efforts. Leveraging eQube® as a DaaS platform, customers are able to deliver on the promise of Digitalization or Digital Transformation of their businesses.
eQube®, establishes a Digital Backbone of integrated data, applications and devices that puts the power of analytics in the hands of end users leading to Actionable Insight. eQube-MI (Digital backbone) provides a comprehensive and efficient infrastructure for APIs, enterprise application integration, synchronization, and migration. eQube-BI, the modern analytics and business intelligence solution for Actionable Insight puts the power of analytics in the hands of end users. eQube platform is flexible, robust, resilient, scalable, and secure with overall lower total cost of ownership.
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eQube®-DaaS Platform Architecture
The following figure depicts a proposed reference architecture for eQube-DaaS based IDE. It shows the eQube platform connecting with multiple data sources (legacy, relational and NoSQL databases, sensors, files, COTS applications) to consume and update data in any format (text files: fixed length and delimited, relational tables, columnar data, NoSQL formats, binary, objects from applications) and publishing it as APIs (REST or OData services) in end-user centric 'for-purpose' apps. It also shows eQube platform aggregating data from multiple sources for analytics/BI (A/BI) presented in a cognitive layer for Actionable Insight.
The six eQube offerings broadly fall under two families of offerings: eQube-MI and eQube-BI family of products. eQube-MI family of products is made up of eQube-MI (Migration and Integration), eQube-TM (Transformation Modeler), and eQube-AG (API Gateway). eQube-BI family of products is made up of eQube-BI (Business Intelligence and Analytics), eQube-ADA (Augmented Data Analytics), and eQube-DP (Data Profiler).
eQube-MI is a powerful Low-code/No-code integration platform that establishes a Digital Backbone of integrated applications. It provides a comprehensive and efficient infrastructure for APIs, enterprise application integration, federation, orchestration, synchronization, and migration. In addition, eQube-MI based application integration infrastructure can be readily extended for secure, scalable, and robust information collaboration across networks, partners, suppliers, and customers that are geographically dispersed. eQube-MI represents 'Not only ESB' integration architecture. Based on the use case, eQube-MI can be used to build integration solutions conforming to either ESB type integration or loosely coupled application-to-application type integration or API gateway type integration; hence 'Not only ESB'. It has significant advantages over ESBs or message brokers as the entire integration solution can be rapidly created, extended or updated without having to write code.
A BPMN-compliant Process Designer integrated in eQube-MI enables visual development of interfaces that include process workflows and processing pipelines containing the integration steps necessary for a given data integration pattern. With the Process Designer, all enterprise integration patterns are supported. Processes can be nested, support transaction boundaries, and include manual steps such as approvals and other forms of human intervention. With the Process Designer, interfaces can be readily developed by visually designing processing pipelines made up of activities, gateways, effects, and paths that capture the business logic of an interface and its process orchestration. The highly configurable eQube-TM maps are directly consumed in the MI processing pipelines as 'activities', providing flexibility to the developers to rapidly implement APIs (REST, OData or Webservices). This capability can be used to build OData or REST service layer on top of one or more Enterprise applications (Legacy systems, COTS with old and new versions).
eQube-TM
provides unprecedented capabilities to establish a catalogue / knowledgebase of 'models' and 'transformation maps' for data federation, 'for-purpose' apps, application integration and migration solutions. TM enables developers to visually define, maintain, and update data transformation 'maps' and solution 'models' between source and destination data elements (objects, relational dB tables, files, XML, JSON, etc.). TM catalogue stores connected applications' data models, simple/complex maps and rule-based transformations between systems. The TM catalogue is discoverable for reusing and re-purposing 'maps' and 'models' that speed up the development and maintenance of new interfaces and / or new APIs.TM's sophisticated and intuitive data mapping and rules-based transformation features are capable of supporting large, complex data models usually found in engineering and PLM, as well as other industries with complex data models, such as insurance and telco. Mapping leverages eQube's integrated and powerful data virtualization layer with semantics. Out of the box ('OOTB'), eQube's sophisticated semantic layer supports Manufacturing, Finance, and PLM concepts like MBOM, BOP, Structure, Plant, Supplier, Revenue, Margins, Parts, Changes, eBOM etc. Maps are neutral to input and output data formats as well as lower level constructs and can support multiple outputs (such as COTS specific object / relationships, relational database tables, files, SOAP, JSON, etc.) with different data models. Customers have the flexibility to extend the OOTB semantic model / concepts or create new ones for their businesses.