Business bus
In the business computer science , the term Geschäftsbus (English business bus ) is a concept, an implementation and a collaboration protocol as part of the integration of applications and components along a value chain .
Business bus as a concept
Business Bus describes a concept for the integration of independent applications and components along the value chain with the help of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). A distinction is made between different levels on the business bus:
- Business level (contracts, legal and regulatory framework)
- Process level ( business processes along the value chain)
- Application level (business applications, components in the sense of business solutions)
- Software level ( standard software , standard components, basic software such as database , middleware )
- System level ( hardware , operating system , network )
Business bus as implementation
Often referred also an effective implementation of such integration as a Business Coach . The term integration platform is used analogously . However, this is a conceptual extension of the term integration platform, which originally and mainly describes the required middleware products and their interaction.
Business bus as a collaboration protocol
The third meaning of Business Bus is that of a defined protocol for the implementation of EAI projects. Examples of this are ebXML (E-Business eXtensible Markup Language) of the UN working group UN / CEFACT and OASIS as well as the BizTalk protocol from Microsoft .
literature
- Susanne Leist , Robert Winter (Ed.): Retail banks in the information age . Springer , Berlin - Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-540427-76-7