edge-to-enterprise real-time soa
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To view on-demand webinar:http://ecast.opensystemsmedia.com/317The world of enterprise infrastructure software is undergoing dramatic change. Driven by the need to improve efficiencies and optimize their businesses, companies that operate large, physical systems (sometimes called operational systems) at the operational edge are actively working to merge those systems with their IT business applications. Because enterprise and operational systems are designed around very different architectures, integrating these worlds into a coherent system-of-systems is a sobering technical challenge. For example, a typical industrial automation system might generate 10's of millions of discrete data points; how does the operational infrastructure move a dynamically changing subset of interest to the IT system's enterprise service bus without overwhelming the ESB and associated system resources?To meet the challenge, RTI has introduced RTI Connext, a next-generation software infrastructure that fully supports the business objective of integrating IT and OT (operational technology) systems. Based on the RTI DataBus™ which has been designed into hundreds of high-performance, distributed systems, RTI Connext combines the performance, scalability, and reliability needed by operational systems with the integration and flexible messaging capabilities of IT systems. Connext is the first edge-to-enterprise real-time SOA platform.TRANSCRIPT
Edge-to-Enterprise Real-Time SOA
Curt Schacker
Chief Commercial Officer, RTI
What is an Edge-to-Enterprise Real-Time SOA?
• Communications infrastructure that supports both…– Service Oriented Architecture Principles
• Well-established in Enterprise Computing• Standardized Service Contracts, Loose Coupling, Abstraction, Reusability,
Discoverability, …
– Real-Time Principles• Well-established in Embedded Computing• Deterministic response times, low latency and jitter, extreme reliability,
…
• Solution to a quickly evolving business challenge– Integration of two very different classes of systems
• Enterprise IT Systems• Physical “Operational” Systems
Enterprise Systems Run Businesses
Enterprise IT Systems
Operational Systems
Operational Systems Generate Revenues
IT-OT: An Evolutionary Context
Convergence:Technology Uniformity
• Linux Operating System• Oracle Data Base• Intel Processors• TCP/IP
Integration:Meaningful Connectivity
• Exchanging data in real-time• Automating Control• Sharing Services• Achieving Business Gains
Alignment:Holistic Governance
• Uniform Management• Policy Enforcement• Streamline Operations
Three Key Questions About Integrating Enterprise and Operational Systems
1. Why is it important?
2. What makes it hard?
3. How do we go about it?
Motivation for IT-OT Integration
Source: Kristian Steenstrup, Gartner
Real-Time Business
• Management level– Accelerate decision making
and planning– Exploit market opportunities
faster– Identify competitive threats
sooner– Cope with market shifts more
quickly– Transform stagnating
businesses
• Operational level– Speed up data capture– Reduce inventories– Minimize business risks– Lower operational costs– Accelerate speed to market– Foster productivity– Better meet customer needs
Source: Oxford Economics. Real-Time Business - Playing to win in the new global marketplace
“Processes that allow companies to conduct a range of business activities instantaneously”
Oxford Economics Survey
• Survey of 525 execs in four industries, 13 countries– 30 % have already started
implementing, 65% plan to over the next 5 years
• Primary Strategic Goals– Increase market share– Build service/quality
advantages– Expand addressable market
• Operational Goals– Improvements in:
• Customer experience• Production processes• Supply chain management
• Substantial results by early adopters– Revenue gains of 21%– Cost reduction of 19%– Expecting future revenue
gains of 28%Source: Oxford Economics. Real-Time Business - Playing to win in the new global marketplace
Business Goals
• Real-time situational awareness across the enterprise
• Real-time analytics: Predictive maintenance, energy costs, operating efficiency, resource allocation
• Asset management: where are they, how are they being used
• Continuous security assessment and threat response
Example Use Cases
• Sparse, Dynamic Interest from Large Data Set
• Mixed Communication Patterns
• System of Systems Interoperability
Sparse, Dynamic Interest from Large Data Set
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S2
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Sensors, Assets, Sources
100’s, 1,000’s 1,000,000’s
Live Instance DataSet
Mixed Communication PatternsHi Speed Data
SourceFull Resolution Data Analysis
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Pub Sub Sub Sub
OT DataBus
IT ESB / Messaging
IT/OT BridgeServer
JMS Client
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Resp
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Web Client
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AMQPClient
S9
Resp
onse
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Low Fidelity Trend IT Analysis
System of Systems Interoperability
Multiple Operational Deployments Business AnalyticsIT Infrastructure
IT ESB / Messaging
Integration Bus capable of supporting all messaging and data patterns
Connector
JMS Client
Web Client
Web ClientWeb
ClientWeb Client
Web Server
OT DataBus
Pub / Sub
Pub / Sub
Pub / Sub
Pub / Sub
Integration / Interoperability Bus
Connector
OT DataBus
Pub / Sub
Pub / Sub
Pub / Sub
Pub / Sub
Connector
OT DataBus
Pub / Sub
Pub / Sub
Pub / Sub
Pub / Sub
Connector
What Makes IT-OT Integration Hard?
Barriers to Adopting Real-Time Operations
Source: Oxford Economics. Real-Time Business - Playing to win in the new global marketplace
IT and OT:Similar but with Important Differences
Source: Gartner
Scale Turns up the Heat
• More things producing and consuming data
• Greater volume of data• System of systems
integration
System
System of systems
Existing infrastructure is breaking under the load
Machine Machine
App
App 3rd Party
App
‘SOAP’
CLOUD
Enterprise
Cloud• Security Services• Asset Services
Real-Time
Near Real-Time
• Heterogeneous• Device to device• SCADA• Multiple Protocols
Today: Batch/DB AnalyticsFuture: real-time analytics
Historian; store-and-forward
Alarms recognized here
Sing
le d
ata
bus
How Do We Get There?Top Down or Bottom Up?
Extreme Performance and Scalability
RTI Bridges the IT-OT Gap
Integration PowerRich Messaging
Connext
Operational Technology (OT)(Devices & Software)
Information Technology (IT)(Business Applications)
RTI Connext Family
Connext Integrator • Integrates OT systems, bridges to IT• Real-time SOA platform
Connext Messaging• App-to-app messaging within a system• Ultra high performance & scalability
Connext Micro • Low memory footprint for small devices• Certifiable to stringent safety standards
Connext DDS • Leading implementation of DDS standard• Foundation of Connext product line
Connext Integrator
Operational Systems Information Technology (IT)
Connext Micro
Connext DDS
Connext Messaging
Connext Foundation: the RTI DataBus™
• Data centric– Structured, accessible data– Like a database for moving
data• Independent modules
– Supports SOA• Plug and play flexibility
– Like a hardware bus• Peer-to-peer performance
– Like streaming protocols• Standards-based
interoperability– Like TCP/IP
Data-Centric Messaging Bus
Scalable, high performance, reliable infrastructure
RTI Connext™: A Next Generation Infrastructure
RTI DataBus™
ConnextMicro
Pub/Sub API
Small Device Apps
ConnextDDS
Pub/Sub API
DDS Apps
ConnextMessaging
Messaging API
General-Purpose Real-Time Apps
ConnextIntegrator
Adapters
Discrete OT & IT Apps/Systems
Administration
Monitoring
Logging
Recording
Replay
Federation
Transformation
PersistenceVisualization
Common Tools and Infrastructure Services
Siemens Wind Power: Limited by Its Infrastructure
• World’s #1 wind turbine manufacturer
• Challenges:– Scale to larger power plants
– Performance increase in sampling rates
– Functional expansion from monitoring to control
• Existing infrastructure was not able to meet these objectives
Siemens Wind Power: Business Goals Achieved
• Active, autonomous monitoring and control of wind farm
– Predictive and preventive maintenance – prevent failures before the occur
– Smart diagnostics – improve availability and efficiency
– Production planning – precise management of power delivery
– Superior grid control – continuous performance tuning of turbines
RTI Connext melds distributed performance with IT business intelligence
U.S. Military Asset Tracking System
Mission:• Track positions of
friendly and hostile forces on the battlefield
• Design goal: 100K tracked updates/sec
Legacy Capability:• 500K lines of code• 8 yrs to develop• 21 servers• Achieved: 20K tracked
updates/sec, reliability and uptime challenges
Poor Performance, Low Reliability, Hard to Maintain
Breakthrough Scalability & Cost Reduction
“This would not have been
possible with any other known technology.”
—Network Ops Center Technical Lead
Next-Gen Capability:• 50K lines of code—
order of magnitude less• 1 yr to develop—8x less• 1 laptop—20x less• Achieved: 250K+
tracked updates/sec, no single point of failure
Takeaways• IT/OT Integration a Real Business Imperative
– Nearly universal mind share in business world– Global and cross-industry– Real, measurable business gains available
• Large Perceived Barriers to Adoption– Technical solutions– Coherent strategies
• Scale exacerbates the problem– Existing infrastructure failing to scale
• RTI’s Connext uniquely addresses this convergence– Edge-to-enterprise real-time SOA
• Performance, scalability, reliability of Operational Systems• Integration and rich communications of Enterprise Systems
RTI Company Snapshot
• World leader in fast, scalable communications software for real-time operational systems
• Strong leadership in Aerospace and Defense; broadening adoption in Industrial Control, Automotive, Healthcare and more
• Over 350,000 deployed licenses in over 500 unique projects
• Privately held
• Based in Silicon Valley
• Worldwide offices
Learn More
http://www.rti.com/mk/bridging-data-gap.html
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