Architecture
Enterprise Content Management is mission critical for many organisations. As more and more people interact with your content, the more critical your ECM application becomes. Any mission critical application must not only be manageable and supportable it must also be scalable, secure, available and flexible.
Objective 7 is built on an industry leading Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and incorporates Web Services and an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
Service Oriented Architecture is essentially an architectural style that aims to split core software services into separate modules (or 'services'). This means that services can exist on different machines and in different locations to assist in scalability and redundancy, but also that services can be easily substituted for other services potentially written in different languages on different platforms.
Web Services are one of a number of technologies that can be used to expose SOA services.
Where SOA provides functionality and Web Services provide lightweight access to that functionality, an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) provides the means to easily orchestrate those services in cooperation with services from other sources. The ESB provides a new level of abstraction from the SOA required for Enterprise Architects to effectively make use of the services offered by disparate systems.
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a scalable, highly distributable object broker that can seamlessly handle interactions between services and applications using disparate transport and messaging technologies. Importantly, ESB technologies are standards-based, scalable and flexible, supporting many transport protocols.
Objective implements Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) technology in the form of the Objective Content Bus, which is at the very heart of the product. It is the foundation of integration infrastructure that offers the best environment for connecting applications resulting in optimum performance and stability.
The Objective Content Bus extends Objective beyond content management to the core of your enterprise architecture.
Objective WebTalk
WebTalk is a core component of Objective’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). It delivers comprehensive integration and interoperability capabilities. It’s based on Web Services and provides a robust architecture for combining enterprise content management functionality with other enterprise applications, offering SOAP, REST, POX and JSON communications.
Scalability
A solution that scales with your business needs is not just the concern of large organisations. And scalability isn’t just about being able to run on bigger and bigger services. Objective’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) delivers the ability to scale your system, not only to many thousands of users, but also in a non-linear fashion, responding immediately to the diverse and evolving needs of your organisation and people.
Security
As enterprise content is made available to increasing numbers of people, security becomes a critical issue. Objective solutions are implemented on some of the most secure Defence and Intelligence networks in the world. Objective delivers a highly configurable, highly flexible security model, incorporating a seven layer privilege set, security classification scheme and codewords/caveats functionality.
Availability
As you extend access to a wider audience (community, staff, customers and partners) the value of the content increases. So too does the responsibility of ensuring this content is available when people need it. Objective’s SOA is the key to ensuring all of your content is available all of the time. Careful system implementation ensures content availability is not hindered by failures in your network, your providers’ networks or your vendors’ hardware.
Flexibility
In addition to scalability and availability, Objective’s SOA provides unparalleled implementation flexibility. This flexibility comes from the ability of the service broker to communicate with services that can be geographically dispersed. For example, to achieve optimal response times, a document service may be deployed close to the users that most often use its documents. Similarly, implementing a rendition service alongside this remote document service ensures the original content only traverses your WAN when needed - an obvious performance and a security benefit.
Integration
Enterprise Content Management solutions do not live alone. They are an integral component of any organisation’s data management environments and hence need to integrate easily. Objective 7 provides comprehensive application integration through Objective WebTalk, delivering standards based integration and interoperability capabilities based on industry-leading Web Services architecture. Web Services architecture offers high-performance, flexible and powerful integration capabilities that provide rapid development and return on investment.
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