Transconnect

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Transconnect is a universal integration server ( Enterprise Service Bus ) for the integration of software systems in a scalable architecture. This product from SQL Projekt AG is a classic Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) product, which can also be used for business-to-business communication. It also offers tools for setting up business activity monitoring .

Transconnect's development tools and management console are based on Eclipse technology. The central point of an integration are the integration workflows. The various actions are configured and the data flow defined using a BPMN 2.0- compliant display. Data transformations can change the structure and content of the data.

As is usual with EAI architectures, the main benefit of the system is the reduction in the number of interfaces and thus the improvement in maintainability.

Transconnect is used across industries, e. B. in the following sectors:

  • production
  • Healthcare
  • Public service
  • Insurance industry (as BiPRO server)
  • Energy industry

technology

Transconnect works based on messages and is an ESB with a generic approach. Instead of specific adapters for specific systems and functions, there are adapters that can be used in general. The specific system and function are only specified when the processing processes are configured.

The range of functions of Transconnect can be expanded in many places with your own Java classes. Your own time-controlled tasks, mapping functions, adapter plugins and complete adapters can be implemented.

Transconnect uses XML as the internal data format . The data can be transformed with XSLT  (version 1 and 2) and STX . Validations are carried out with XSD . The size of the XML documents is only limited by the storage space available in the internal database.

Versions

  • 1998 - TransConnect 1.3.0
  • 2001 - TransConnect 1.3.1
  • 2003 - TransConnect 1.3.2
  • 2004 - TransConnect 1.3.3
  • 2005 - TransConnect 1.3.4
  • 2006 - TransConnect 1.3.5
  • 2012 - TransConnect 2.1.0
  • 2013 - TransConnect 2.2.1
  • 2014 - TransConnect 2.2.2 (New: technical monitoring with dashboards, diagrams, limit value monitoring and notification)
  • 2015 - TransConnect 2.2.3 (new: mapping of project structures for administration, versioning of the server configuration including history, rollback and version comparison, user profiles to control access rights at object level, Java 7)
  • 2016 - TransConnect 2.3.0 (New: graphic BPMN editor for creating processing processes, graphic monitoring of message processing, Java 8, support of XSLT 2.0, support of MacOS as a platform for administration GUI)
  • 2017 - TransConnect 2.3.1 (New: Business Activity Monitoring including Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools )
  • 2018 - TransConnect 2.3.2 (New: SNMP adapter for reading information from technical devices, OFTP 2.0 adapter for bidirectional exchange of files as recommended by the VDA)
  • 2020 - TransConnect 2.3.3 (new: file adapter: support of SMB V1 and V2, web service adapter: new connection type with TGIC token authentication, HTTP input adapter: new connection types: JSON and XML, automatic detection of dependencies between transformations)

architecture

TransConnect was originally in C developed. After an upgrade to C ++ , the software was completely redeveloped in Java and can now run on Linux and Windows . It uses numerous XML technologies for data storage, transformations, validation and processing.

In addition to the versioned configuration, a persistence database also saves the application data until it has been successfully processed. This prevents data loss and double processing.

The distribution of data is based on the definition of routes, which can also be dependent on the content of the data (content-based routing). As of version 2.3.0, a process can be created for each route with a graphical editor, with which the processing of the application data is determined.

adapter

Adapters are the link between the transconnect server and the software systems to be integrated. The following adapters are included as standard:

There is also an adapter package for:

Own adapters can be developed or integrated using an adapter framework supplied free of charge. Examples are adapters to the following systems:

Alternatives

Web links

literature

  • Recommendation of Transconnect as an "industry bus" for the health system: The future of health care in rural areas: an overview of the Upper Lusatia region
  • Classification of Transconnect within Enterprise Information Systems, Conference Proceedings
  • Diploma thesis "Examination of the functionalities of the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) for the description of complex message transformations presented using the example of TransConnect"
  • Diploma thesis "Conception and prototypical development of a system-wide monitoring tool for process-oriented control, analysis and processing of data exchange tasks within the framework of the processes for the liberalization of the energy market at ENSO AG"
  • Expose of a diploma thesis on enterprise application integration in hospital information systems

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dipl.-Inf. Böhm: Use of WSBPEL 2.0 to describe complex message transformations, shown using the example of TransConnect. In: HTW Dresden - database regular table. Dresden University of Technology and Economics, accessed on December 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Dresden University of Technology and Economics (FH) Department of Computer Science / Mathematics. Thesis. in the business informatics course - AZSLIDE.COM. Accessed December 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Communicate better with TransConnect®. In: Apparet It's corporate website. Accessed December 21, 2017 (German).
  4. ↑ a b c SCHWINDT CAD / CAM-Technologie GmbH: TransConnect®: Business Integration Platform. Retrieved December 21, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Business partner - GEPADO Software GmbH . In: GEPADO Software GmbH . ( gepado.de [accessed December 23, 2017]).
  6. ^ Andre Ellguth: Transconnect® communication server for data exchange in hospitals. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 22, 2017 ; accessed on December 21, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www-old.ibh.de
  7. ↑ SAKD - Software Directory Application TransConnect - Business Integration Platform. Retrieved December 21, 2017 .
  8. ↑ SQL Projekt AG | BiPRO - Industry Institute for Process Optimization. Retrieved January 4, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b EXCELLENT: TransConnect®-BiPRO-Server . ( openpr.de [accessed on December 21, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Dähne, Clemens .: IT solutions in the energy industry: today and tomorrow . 1st edition. VWEW Energie-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, OCLC 57219767 .
  11. ↑ SAP integration | TRANSCONNECT®. Accessed December 21, 2017 (German).
  12. ↑ TRANSCONNECT® - Use in healthcare | TRANSCONNECT®. Accessed December 21, 2017 (German).
  13. ↑ Michael Reiher: The future of health care in rural areas: an overview of the Oberlausitz region . LIT Verlag Münster, 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11498-3 ( google.de [accessed December 21, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Joaquim Filipe, José Cordeiro: Enterprise Information Systems: 11th International Conference, ICEIS 2009, Milan, Italy, May 6-10, 2009, Proceedings . Springer Science & Business Media, 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-01347-8 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2017]).
  15. ↑ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DRESDEN FACULTY OF IT. Institute for System Architecture Chair of Computer Networks DIPLOMA THESIS - PDF. Retrieved December 21, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Expose of a diploma thesis on enterprise application integration in hospital information systems - PDF. Retrieved December 21, 2017 .