4. Transaction Document Processing
LANSA Composer's transport, transformation and process orchestration features provide an infinitely flexible and adaptable framework that can be used to solve almost any type of business process integration challenge.
Many typical business process integration requirements follow a similar and familiar pattern. This pattern is characterized by:
- Exchanging transaction documents such as EDI, XML or CSV with trading partners
- Mapping transaction information between the transaction document and an application database
- Executing application-specific functionality to process the transactions
- Exchanging transaction acknowledgements with the originating trading partner
Because this pattern is so typical, LANSA Composer provides a ready-made framework that you can readily adapt and extend to encompass the exchanges and document types that are specific to your organization. As a part of this framework solution, LANSA Composer provides a transaction document registration database and the LANSA Composer Document Manager that can be used to monitor and manage your inbound and outbound document flows.
To better understand the place of the transaction document processing framework and features in LANSA Composer, you might think of it this way:
- LANSA Composer's transport, transformation and process orchestration tools can be used to solve virtually any type of business process integration problem.
- LANSA Composer's transaction document processing frameworks provide ready-made and adaptable solutions, using those tools, for the most common business process integration scenario.
- Using the LANSA Composer toolset, you can adapt the supplied framework to meet your exact circumstances and requirements.
Because EDI is a particularly specialized discipline, the transaction document processing framework and the LANSA Composer Document Manager contain specific features applicable to EDI document exchange. If you do not exchange EDI documents, you can simply disregard those parts of the provided solution.
Refer to the following for more information: