Volvo case study -...
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Volvo case studyMats Lehrman Cap Gemini Ernst &Young
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Agenda
• Background• Business challenge• IT-solution• Key benefits• Best practice • Questions
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Client - Volvo
• Volvo Personvagnar AB, Motor- The plant for manufacturing of engines in Skövde, Sweden
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Old situation
Base data systems
Source systems
Refine process Destination system
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Business issues
• High maintenance cost• Old technology made it hard to find resources• Hard to implement and test changes• Highly depended of IT department• Key person wanted to retire
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Business challenges
• Controllers/accountants had to achieve control over the economical rules
• Minimize dependence on IT resources• Act quickly on changes in economical rules• Ability to adapt to future changes• Lower cost for maintenance and operation • Reusable solution for other plants• Make it possible to move from batch to real-time
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Business requirements
• Easy to change economical rules that calculate refined data• Cost effective handling of system management and
governance• Minimize need for system development during life cycle. If
possible changes in calculating rules should be possible to configure without system change
• History database able to store 10 year of history data• Transaction database dimensioned to store 1 year plus 3
month of transactional data• Database containing aggregated data (data warehouse)• Reporting and ad-hoc queries
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Some metrics
• Number of transactions ~150 000 per week• Number of different transactions ~15• Number of systems involved ~ 10
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SAP/R3 ePrisOBSHR
MPS
Maintenance
Salary
Time
Basic Data
Data flow
SAP/R3
Data warehouse
Validate Refine
JSE
Prisma
GUI JSE
Leva-1
AnalysisReports
Interfaces to other systems
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Services
Support services
Data services
Import Validate Correct Refine Export
Notify Log Batch Economicrule Master
Authorise Basic data Report Dataanalysis
Historicdata
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Products
Internal End-useraccess
Data sourcesUHSSAPR/3
MaintenaceePrisOBS
JSE
BizTalk 2002
SQLServer 2000
MS IE 5.x
MS IIS (web server)
Directoryservice
Transactiondata Basic data BizTalk
databases
Import Validate Refine Export
SQL Server 2000
Crystal Enterprise
txt-files
MPS
txt-files
COM+
Correct
Functoid
Business logic
JSEMaster
Windows 2000/BizTalk 2000/SQL Server
2000Notify
LogBatch
XML
Data access
Fileshare
VCOMDIST
Time report
Historic andaggregated
data
OLAP DTSExtract
Load
ReportDataanalysis
Leva1 Fakir
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Architecture benefits
Constrained by the architecture
Integration hub
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Key benefits
One application - One flow - One place
Lower costs• Lower costs for application management
• Gained control over economic rules and manuals for controllers/ accountants
• Lower costs at future changes• Euro, Monthly-end Reports, changes in
system portfolio
• Competence on current applications • Mainstream products
More efficient administration• Controllers/accountants have control over
the economical rules
• Higher efficiency in business administration
• No internal controls between applications
• Makes it possible for a common solution for all plants
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Best practice
• Design an architecture • Set up interface contracts• Iterative approach• Master data• Design common messages• Testing
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High-level project approach
Pre-study Design Construction Test
Perform integration
testSign-off
Migrate to production
Build solution
Test casesUnit test
Content agreementsTechnical
architectureApplication
ArchitecturesCommon UI
Flow analysisUse CasesCommon objects
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Questions
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Technical detailed architectureJSE Server
BizTalk 2002
SQLServer 2000
MS IIS (web server)
Transactiondata
Basicdata
BizTalkdatabases
CorrectJSEMaster
Fileshare
Recive
Channels
Messagingports
Validate
Refine
Export
ImportIn
XSLMappings
OutTransform
COM-componentsto write XMLtransactionsto database
COM-componentsto read XML
documents fromdatabase and post
it to a channel
In OutTransform
In OutTransform
In OutTransform
VCOMDist
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The Integrated Architecture Content Framework (IAF)
Business Information
GovernanceSecurity
Contextual
Business Information / Knowledge
InformationSystems
Conceptual
TechnologyInfra-
structure
Logical
Physical
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Architecture design
Applications Architecture
Data Architecture
Technology Architecture
Integration Architecture
Systems Management
Governance Applications Development
Security
Service Levels
Functional Requirements
Business Drivers
Use Case ModelInformation
Model
Component Model
IT Drivers & Principles
AS-IS Environment
Strategy
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Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Framework
Management
System Monitoring
Inte
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Security
Connectivity
Database Application Mainframe
B2B
Business Process
Workflow
PersistenceDelivery Server Components
Technical Workflow
Transformation
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Message Monitoring
Error Handling
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Integration framework
• A process that supports the integration of systems- Driven by business and IT principles and requirements- Build on Integrated Architecture Framework (IAF) methods
- Tools, techniques and guidelines for designing architecture- Focus on service oriented architecture
- Services and their interfaces- Incremental implementation (migration strategy)
• multi-vendor/-technology experience- Focus on interfaces- Many integration technologies