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This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a comprehensive service-oriented architecture (SOA) offering that is designed to extend the IBM Business Process Management platform to deliver flexible composite business applications. In this book, we provide the complete overview of the chemical and petroleum industry and solutions provided through C&P IIF that can help overcome the business challenges through value identification. This is the first of two books and covers the business and functional architecture of the chemical and petroleum industry. In particular, this book provides a market segmentation of the petroleum industry and how IBM C&P IIF can lead to better productivity and profitability. This book is for an audience that include chemical and petroleum industry professionals, business and functional architects who are looking for ways of improving efficiencies and operating margins. The second book deals with information technology and system architecture, installation guide, step-by-step scenarios that describes how to model, assemble, deploy, and manage a composite business application. This book is for an audience that include solutions and technical architects, IT service providers who seek faster and quality implementations, maintenance, and upgrades of enterprise solutions.

This IBM Redbook introduces the reader to the world of EDI. In addition to general terms about EDI, it also introduces a number of products in this area. WebSphere Data Interchange is discussed as the translation engine to map EDI documents to and from documents in other formats. This redbook also introduces two communication products that use Internet technologies: iSoft's P2PAgent and Trading Partner Interchange. In addition to product introductions, the redbook describes several implementation scenarios in a multi-partner and multi-product environment. Besides a network where trading partners only use iSoft's P2PAgent, we also look at a setup where trading partners use a combination of the two products. For each communication product, we investigate several integration options with internal applications and other middleware. We discuss the integration options with the translation product WebSphere Data Interchange and with the process integration product WebSphere BI Interchange Server. The integration technique can be file-based or messaging-based. Finally, we take a look at options to combine the flexibility of the Internet with the reliability of value-added networks. When Internet connectivity is temporarily not available, a trading partner has the ability to use Expedite to dial into IBM's network and send or receive EDI documents. By exploiting the recycle mechanics in iSoft's P2PAgent, we can implement a solution that provides a highly available connection between trading partners. For more up-to-da

The world of e-commerce is changing rapidly. Some ten years ago, e-commerce was mostly defined as participating in an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) initiative. Today, e-commerce means much more than just EDI: it means supporting interactive Web sites; it means enabling the communications with multiple exchanges; it means using XML and the Internet to conduct interactive business-to-customer and business-to-business communications. This IBM Redbook explores some of the possibilities using products from WebSphere Business Integration V4.1 and WebSphere Business Connect V1.1 product suites. For more up-to-date information about WebSphere B2B, please refer to the following books: B2B solutions using WebSphere Partner Gateway V6.0, http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247109.html?Open and Secure Production Deployment of WebSphere Business Integration Connect, http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246457.html?Open.