TESCRA helps one of the worlds largest energy companies achieve real time integration with TIBCO and Services Oriented Architecture

Client is a group of organizations that trade crude oil, refined oil products, gas, power and freight globally.

Industry
Oil and Gas

Geographies
North America, Europe, Asia

Solution Summary

• Architecture for achieving Real-time integration
• Standards and Definitions upon which all further development of the Core Integration Framework will be based.
• Functional Specification for the transformation of Transaction Data within the core integration framework
• Functional and Technical Specifications for key elements of the Supporting Framework.

• Well-articulated architectural principles, guidelines, standards and best practices.
• Extensible, Scalable architecture helping the client avoid high costs and achieve development and integration in phased manner.
• Cost savings from not having to reconcile inconsistent data between applications

The Challenge

With over a thousand systems and applications running the core business operations and processes, the cost of maintenance and changes to the systems were astronomical. The intention was to create a real-time integration framework to unify the business processes and become a globally integrated organization.

The budgets were limited and therefore a complete and immediate implementation of the full framework is not feasible or pragmatic.

The overall project must deliver the core integration components providing extensible and scalable capability for all planned and future application integrations. Standards, data models and best practices had to be defined so that discipline can be introduced quickly and legacy systems can be retrofitted into the architecture when appropriate.

The Solution

The IT architecture was consolidated into a single Global Technical Architecture (GTA) definition. A Strategic Application Target was created as the framework for future application development.

A Services Oriented Architecture was developed to integrate the various trading applications using IBM WebSphere application server (J2EE), Oracle database and TIBCO suite of tools, applications and services.

Developed a transactional and operational data store and a master reference data store to be able to share common data across the applications. Underpinning this was a common data model with standards defining messaging and XML transactions.