Fiorano ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)

The Fiorano ESB® is a web-services capable middleware infrastructure platform that supports intelligently-directed communication and mediated relationships between loosely coupled ( SOA ) and decoupled ( EDA ) business components. Unlike other platforms, Fiorano ESB supports both SOA and EDA over a single technology base, with a single repository, business component model, design, development and deployment tools, together with common tools for security and administration.

Fiorano ESB supports multiple communication protocols, including SOAP/HTTP and JMS (Java Message Service), together with tools that work in concert with the ESB infrastructure to enable messages to be reliably transferred between distributed business component instances without the need for any middleware-level programming. This allows non-technical business analysts to compose, deploy and monitor business component applications without the need for programmer intervention. In addition, Fiorano ESB provides failover (at both server and business-component levels), load-balancing, security, monitoring and other management services using the JMX standard. Fiorano ESB allows business components to be added, moved, deleted or swapped out from any application without disrupting other participating business components (senders/receivers of information).

Fiorano ESB Enterprise Service Bus
Enabling standards-based integration

Fiorano ESB can be used not only for application integration (which it supports with a rich set of available application adapters, together with tools for document tracking, adapter development, transformation and content-based routing) but also for the development of general purpose distributed applications connecting independently designed business components created by independent teams of developers.

Fiorano ESB - Business benefits

The advantages of Fiorano ESB over existing, proprietary integration solutions include:

Extended and Standards-based Connectivity: The Fiorano ESB incorporates a standards-based JMS-compliant messaging backbone, letting systems within and across the entire value chain easily exchange information via asynchronous or synchronous messaging.

Flexible and Service-based Application Composition: Based on SOA, the Fiorano ESB application model allows complex distributed systems, including integration solutions spanning multiple applications, systems, and firewalls, to be composed from pre-built, pre-tested services. This provides easy extensibility.

Reduced TCO via enhanced reuse of legacy applications: The SOA approach to application composition directly promotes reuse, easing maintenance and further reducing system TCO.

Reduced time-to-market and Increased Productivity: The Fiorano ESB provides these benefits through the reuse of components and services, and the ease of application composition offered by an SOA, standards-based communication, transformation, and connectivity.

Fiorano ESB - Technical benefits

The Fiorano ESB provides significant added value in comparison to existing integration solutions. Some of the core characteristics of Fiorano ESB include:

Robustness, Scalability and Performance: The Fiorano ESB allows centralized control with fully distributed, parallel flows of data between participating Enterprise Services, with no single point of failure in the distributed infrastructure. Less scalable integration solutions support one or more centralized brokers, which tend to become data bottlenecks.

Data Routing Mechanisms: Participating services in a business process within the Fiorano ESB framework can communicate using several different methods for data routing, including traditional JMS routes, content based routing and external routing.

Compute-intensive Services: The Fiorano ESB allows compute-intensive services such as data transformation logic, to be executed at the end-points of the network, allowing processing to be distributed for better scalability and performance.

By leveraging the emerging standards for communication, transformation, connectivity and security, Fiorano ESB delivers a powerful, affordable, standards-based backbone throughout the enterprise and partner organizations. This approach of integration allows the in-house development teams to build new applications that are already integration-enabled and can easily be incorporated into the ESB as required, associated benefits being savings on expensive skills, decreased time to market, and enhanced reusability of existing software assets.

Learn more:

 Fiorano ESB: Technical Features and Benefits

 Fiorano ESB Development and Architectural Advantages

  Streamline your Integration Strategy with Fiorano ESB 

 Business Component Architecture: Unifying SOA and EDA