In iWay 7, the iWay Integration Suite delivers a unified toolset that ensures rapid access to timely, accurate data across all systems, processes and stakeholders.

Designed to satisfy enterprise-scale, as well as project-oriented and departmental-level integration requirements, the iWay Integration Suite delivers comprehensive integration capabilities that allow organizations to:

• Guarantee message delivery across all systems.
• Unify diverse and disparate environments with over 300 pre-packaged integration components that provides direct, native access to any information, in virtually any source.
• Accelerate time to market for critical enterprise IT and business projects, such as mobile applications, big data analytics, and real-time supply chains.
• Optimize business processes and real-time decision making by leveraging existing application and infrastructure investments to support operational and analytical needs.

The following iWay components are included with the iWay Integration Suite:

• iWay Service Manager
• iWay Integration Tools
• iWay Software Development Kit
• iWay DataMigrator
• iWay Adapters (Data Connectors)
  • Application Adapters
  • e-Business Adapters
  • Protocol Adapters
  • Legacy Adapters
  • Technology Adapters
  • Log Event Adapters

A unique and powerful enterprise service bus (ESB) enables the creation, composition, and management of services, whether invoked as web services or through other interfaces. In simple terms, an ESB is a software protocol that delivers messages from one system to another, for example, email (SMTP), queues such as MQ and MSMQ, relational databases, and FTP sources.

iWay provides a native ESB if required. It also provides event-driven integration and B2B interaction management and, unlike other ESBs, interoperates with other ESBs and proprietary technologies as well as industry standards.

The iWay Integration Suite lays the foundation for real-time integration, and web-oriented or event-driven architectures. It delivers rapid throughput and latency, making it a prime component of high-performance networks and business processing solutions. The iWay Integration Suite:

• Optimizes skilled and expensive IT resources by reducing IT complexity and simplifying service design, deployment, and maintenance.
• Drastically reduces integration total cost of ownership (TCO) by eliminating most custom integration code.
• Provides complete support for service-enabling disparate enterprise technologies.
• Does not require proprietary technology. It runs on top of popular messaging systems, a variety of JMS implementations, and dozens of other common protocols, and can be deployed to a standalone Java Virtual Machine, open-source J2EE application servers, or any commercial J2EE application server. It also supports security, architecture, and B2B standards including AS1, AS2, AS3, SOAP, and REST (REpresentational State Transfer).
• Decentralizes development while centralizing administration with a unique combination of distributed run-time environments, easy-to-use graphical tools, and broad-reaching monitoring and policy management.
• Provides real-time activity monitoring, to identify and correct bottlenecks or inefficiencies and remediate process and data exceptions.
• Integrates with the iWay Data Quality Suite and Master Data Suite to enhance the completeness, accuracy, and consistency of information.
• Automates and accelerates deployment through tools, a console, or a script. Users can build applications, then deploy them to a test and production environment, or to multiple servers. iWay Integration Applications and the iWay Software Development Kit (SDK) enable rapid deployment across multiple environments in a managed and controlled manner, while fitting into existing enterprise infrastructures.
• Facilitates real-time data replication by copying source tables to target tables, even when the database types vary, or by performing complex actions such as manipulating data as it is transferred between tables, or cleansing and transforming data as it is moved between databases.
• Supports Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), allowing users to track iWay activity within a managed network using any popular third-party SNMP tool.
• Facilitates big data management by enabling high-volume, high-performance document storage through MapReduce-style parallel processing capabilities, as well as integration with the Hadoop Distributed File System.
• Enables rapid, effective management of trading partner and related activities through a comprehensive infrastructure that dramatically improves the way partner transactions, as well as those performed over external exchanges, are planned, executed, and tracked.

Direct access to any data, in any source, allows organizations to address the individual information needs of all users and systems. iWay accelerates deployment and reduces risk for all types of data integration projects, including enterprise information management, data migration, web services, on-premise or cloud-based implementations, and co-existing or federated integration platform as a service (iPaaS) environments. The iWay Integration Suite provides:

• End-to-end integration of the widest variety of sources, including big data, structured and unstructured information, cloud-based sources, social networks, and machine-generated data.
• Fast, flexible extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) process creation, as well as message-based integration involving heterogeneous data structures across disparate platforms.
• Real-time data warehousing with event listening capabilities across all applications, databases, cloud, and legacy systems. Each event can trigger a variety of business processes while feeding the data warehouse in real time.
• Simplified development through a change data capture system completely integrated with ETL.
• Bi-directional data movement, where data can be fed to or extracted from a data warehouse.
• Messaging, replication, event-based integration, managed file transfer, and non-intrusive log-scraping technology to avoid impact on source systems.
• Advanced transformation and data dictionary capabilities.
• Integration with data quality services to cleanse data before it is fed into the warehouse.
• Master data management, inside and outside the warehouse.
• An advanced message-based SOA architecture for seamless integration with business processes.