PeopleTools Integration & Service Oriented Architecture

Leading companies are looking for ways to gain operational efficiencies and business agility through adaptable, re-usable business processes. These processes span the organization and involve many users using multiple systems deployed on various technologies. Solving integration with a proprietary point-to-point solution won't cut it. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the blueprint that describes how your applications can interact and work together in a standards-based way.

PeopleSoft delivers Integration Broker (IB) as the open, standards based technology used to integrate with PeopleSoft Applications. Integration Broker is a proven integration platform that delivers high performance standards-based integration. It is designed to manage interaction between PeopleSoft applications and other PeopleSoft, legacy, packaged, and SOA enabled applications

• Standards Web Services—Powerful toolkit with an array of supported technology such as files, soap over http, Restful services, email, and PeopleSoft applications. If you want your own, you can build it yourself with the Adapter SDK
• Technology Adapters and Adapter Toolkit—Powerful toolkit with an array of supported technology such as files, web, email, and legacy PeopleSoft applications. If you want your own, you can build it yourself with the Adapter SDK
• Superior Connectivity—Reduced cost and complexity with open standard support
• Enterprise Ready—Enterprise class performance and scalability and administrative tools