Conceptual Architecture Layers

Enterprise Application

Enterprise resource planning

SAP, Oracle, AND PeopleSoft and Data Systems

Content management

EMC (Documentum), Interwoven, and Vignette

Mainframe and legacy applications

Fraud-detection systems,telecommunications provisioning applications, etc.

Customer-relationship-management and call-center systems

Kana and Siebel

Data Services

Application and data systems adapters

Actional, iWay, TIBCO, and WebMethods

Data model and persistence engines

BEA, IBM (Rational), Sybase, Teradata, and TIBCO

Legacy functionality extraction

Microsoft, Oracle, Teradata, and TIBCO

Application Services

Messaging

IBM, Sonic, and TIBCO

Application containers

BEA, Borland, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle

Standard interfaces

Java standards, .NET standards, and web services

Metadata repositories

IBM, Oracle, Teradata, TIBCO, and custom repositories

Business Services

Business process

Fuego, Fujitsu, IBM, Microsoft, and TIBCO

Business rules

Ilog, Pegasystems, and TIBCO

Human workflow

Fujitsu, IBM, Staffware, and TIBCO

Presentation and Interface Services

Web portal

IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Plumtree, Sybase,TIBCO, and Vignette

Mobile devices

WAP, WML, AND Java

Standard formats

EDIFACT, ebXML, AND other XML