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Metastorm Integration Manager

Comprehensive System-Based Integration and Business Process Management
How does IT become more responsive to the business, pursue its strategic technology direction such as modernization and SOA, while containing costs? Metastorm Integration Manager (MIM) gives you the ability to optimize and extend IT resources and meet your seemingly conflicting objectives. Through MIM organizations can rapidly and cost effectively integrate, share data and manage system-centric processes across a broad array of modern and more obscure legacy and mainframe applications, databases, and file systems. MIM uniquely allows you to effectively bridge batch and real-time processing, handle the large transaction volumes of the most demanding organizations, operate in a highly distributed environment, and closely interact with Metastorm’s complementary BPA, EA, and human focused BPM capabilities.

Key Capabilities

Comprehensive System Integration & Processing

Manage File Transfer & Data Integration

Real-Time Integration

Event-Based Processing

Transaction Visibility & Audit Trail

Controlled Exception Management

Enterprise Topology View & Access Control

Tight Integration with Human BPM, BPA, & EA

The Right Architecture

Benefit: Achieve advanced system integration and system-based process management from one cost effective technology solution.

Historically system integration and process implementation has been difficult, costly, and has required multiple technologies. MIM provides a single platform for batch and real-time system-based integration, processes and management. MIM delivers this across a broad range of technologies and computing environments, from the most modern to most legacy oriented.

Benefit: Optimize and extend the life of existing solutions while allowing greater agility of your data.

Address batch-oriented data movement and integration needs through a secure, automated, high-speed file transfer and integration platform. Provide your organization robust enterprise management, control, integration exiting, auditability, and rich exception handling for batch-oriented data movement and integration.

Benefit: Achieve real-time data and system interaction without unwanted costs.

To keep up with the rapid pace of today’s business, you desire real-time integration into a growing number of systems and applications. MIM makes delivering a high performance, real-time integration backbone across a heterogeneous environment easy. For the more challenging legacy and mainframe environments (such as iSeries, zSeries and CICS), MIM provides the tools to quickly service-enable these systems and make them critical real-time participants

Benefit: Improved responsiveness leads to greater insight, decisions, and higher customer service levels.

By turning the act of file changes and data movement into business “events”, MIM provides comprehensive and high-performance process-oriented solutions for better managing collaboration across real-time and batch integration scenarios, as well as diverse systems from Windows to various UNIX/Linux variants, to iSeries and zSeries platforms.

Benefit: Comply with regulatory requirements and required SLAs. Resolve problems quickly through access to immediate information.

Two of the biggest challenges IT faces are monitoring process performance and quickly diagnosing and recovering from a failure somewhere in their diverse environment. MIM comprehensively collects and reports on business performance data in real time. A graphical web-based interface provides immediate access to a detailed audit trail.

Benefit: Automatically manage exceptions while improving response times, thereby reducing costs and improving customer satisfaction.

Even the best planned technical environments experience hiccups. System errors and downtime can create major headaches, not to mention large business risks and costs. MIM takes exception management to a new level by allowing you to easily define how exceptions should be handled and then allowing MIM to automatically manage and recover from them. You are involved only when necessary.

Benefit: Obtain lower management, training, and outage times. Achieve greater levels of security and compliance.

Because technology has become so mission critical to business, it is common for organizations to desire 1000's of points of integration. MIM's point-and-click operations view allows comprehensive management of 2-1000's of "integration nodes" across Windows®, UNIX, and Linux environments. Advanced, granular access control empowers personnel to conduct self-service management and recovery based on their specific IT authorities and responsibilities.

Benefit: Transform integrated system transactions into a highly collaborative, cohesive and strategic asset of the organization.

Integration of MIM into Metastorm's other BPA, EA and human oriented BPM capabilities allows organizations to tie system based integration and processes into the broader context of the business strategy, enterprise architecture and related execution initiatives.

Benefit: MIM's strong architecture provides a solution that you can count on - comprehensive, modern, fast, reliable and secure.

MIM is designed to meet the most demanding of performance, scalability, reliability and security standards. Auto restart and automatic exception management provide additional levels of reliability and performance missing in other solutions. MIM's ability to run in a very broad range of environments (Windows, UNIX/Linux , iSeries and zSeries platforms) and its SOA and web services orientation provides a broad solution that will help you more rapidly modernize and conform to broader IT trends.

Metastorm delivers more than just software. Through years of experience across over 1,000 of clients, Metastorm has developed a rich set of “accelerators” which allow you to get the most from your investment and achieve rapid time to value.

Metastorm Process Pods®

Time to value is a key requirement of today's process improvement efforts. To achieve this, such efforts require rapid implementation and immediate, measurable impact.

To help customers accelerate their process improvement initiatives and reap the rewards as rapidly as possible, Metastorm has created the Metastorm Process Pod® program. Metastorm Process Pods are designed to provide a rich set of solution frameworks that serve as 'implementation accelerators' for Metastorm BPM®, Metastorm Integration Manager, and Metastorm ProVision® process improvement initiatives. Learn More.

Function/Feature	Metastorm Integration Manager	Other Software
Process Design to Execution and Auditing – WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) interface between design rules, runtime execution, and process auditing.
Centralized Management of Remote Services – Regardless of host locations, manage your system services through an event-based infrastructure that complements existing management facilities.
Batch Interaction Support All-In-One – Support data integration regardless of data volumes between files, databases, messages while maintaining and enhancing existing systems.
Real-time Interaction Support All-In-One – Process high-volume transactions through integrated process management coordination, unlocking applications as flexible business services.
"Service Enable" Your Most Challenging Systems and Applications – Quickly integrate and enable even the most challenging Mainframe and legacy systems such as CICS.
High Performance Process Engine – Millions of transactions daily are just the start for many organizations. Modern architectures require the right balance between simplicity and sophistication.
Strong Governance and Compliance Support – Control who can see and manage what processes, exceptions, configurations, and management through simple point-and-click interface.
Support for Multiple Computing Environments and Languages – The future of many organizations remains an embracing of diverse system and language interfaces to meet business demands. Catering to diversity atop a ubiquitous architecture makes the difference.
Automated Exception Management – Because of the volume of system interactions, distributed exceptions require automated exception responses or intelligent route handling to targeted resources in the organization.
BPM, BPA, and EA Integration – System processes operating in a vacuum leave untapped opportunities for data and process collaboration amongst a larger constituency base. Only holistic BPM, BPA, and EA through Metastorm fully realize the value in system transactions.
Proven Security – Automated transaction security requires the best in industry standards together with the flexibility of your unique standards and environment.
Intelligently leverage standards – Standards like Web Services, FTP, and XML ensure your organization remains at par with the industry. The architecture that drives these standards makes the different in business agility and control.

Customer	Description	Customer	Description
	Streamlined data processing, ensured secure data delivery, increased development speed, consolidated applications, and acheived PCI compliance. Read More.		Used managed file transfer and a service-oriented architecture approach to streamline processes, respond to customer needs faster and transfer data securely. Read More.
	Used MIM to decrease data transfer time from 20 minutes to milliseconds and improve order fulfillment from 97% to 99.9% worldwide. Read More.		Created an SOA environment that ties together legacy mainframe applications and new .NET applications for multi-channel process execution. Extended the value and capabilities of its heterogeneous legacy environment in support of current business initiatives.Read More.
	Standardized on MIM for Managed File Transfer between head-office applications, distribution centers, and credit card providers. Provides real-time process orchestration and management of ERP application integration processes.		MIM provides SOA infrastructure for managed data transfer and system integration process coordination of business critical global medical device management and monitoring.
	Delivers process centric SOA platform for the real-time processing of time critical financial transactions. Integrates transactions coming from numerous trading partners with diverse back-end accounting systems and reporting systems. Was able to dramatically reduce the complexity of managing diverse systems and processes and now has full visibility and auditability.		MIM provides critical managed file transfer and data integration platform to integrate sales transactions, planning systems, pricing systems and price updates to stores and warehouse management systems.
	MIM manages the exchange of inventory and financial data between Headquarters, Regional Distribution Centers and Stores.		MIM provides the Integration of critical MBPM driven business processes for recruitment and screening of agents with backend HR and intelligence systems based on numerous legacy and mainframe transaction systems.
	MIM enables legacy CICS system modernization of IRS Tax Form 1120 (Corporate Tax Returns) and other high profile data.		MIM supports management and data integration of claims related processes. With MIM BCBS SC now has visibility into business critical processes, service level agreements and has seen a dramatic reduction in penalties due to service performance deficiencies.