Edge-to-Enterprise Real-Time SOA

Curt Schacker

Chief Commercial Officer, RTI

What is an Edge-to-Enterprise Real-Time SOA?

• Communications infrastructure that supports both…– Service Oriented Architecture Principles

• Well-established in Enterprise Computing• Standardized Service Contracts, Loose Coupling, Abstraction, Reusability,

Discoverability, …

– Real-Time Principles• Well-established in Embedded Computing• Deterministic response times, low latency and jitter, extreme reliability,

…

• Solution to a quickly evolving business challenge– Integration of two very different classes of systems

• Enterprise IT Systems• Physical “Operational” Systems

Enterprise Systems Run Businesses

Enterprise IT Systems

Operational Systems

Operational Systems Generate Revenues

IT-OT: An Evolutionary Context

Convergence:Technology Uniformity

• Linux Operating System• Oracle Data Base• Intel Processors• TCP/IP

Integration:Meaningful Connectivity

• Exchanging data in real-time• Automating Control• Sharing Services• Achieving Business Gains

Alignment:Holistic Governance

• Uniform Management• Policy Enforcement• Streamline Operations

Three Key Questions About Integrating Enterprise and Operational Systems

1. Why is it important?

2. What makes it hard?

3. How do we go about it?

Motivation for IT-OT Integration

Source: Kristian Steenstrup, Gartner

Real-Time Business

• Management level– Accelerate decision making

and planning– Exploit market opportunities

faster– Identify competitive threats

sooner– Cope with market shifts more

quickly– Transform stagnating

businesses

• Operational level– Speed up data capture– Reduce inventories– Minimize business risks– Lower operational costs– Accelerate speed to market– Foster productivity– Better meet customer needs

Source: Oxford Economics. Real-Time Business - Playing to win in the new global marketplace

“Processes that allow companies to conduct a range of business activities instantaneously”

Oxford Economics Survey

• Survey of 525 execs in four industries, 13 countries– 30 % have already started

implementing, 65% plan to over the next 5 years

• Primary Strategic Goals– Increase market share– Build service/quality

advantages– Expand addressable market

• Operational Goals– Improvements in:

• Customer experience• Production processes• Supply chain management

• Substantial results by early adopters– Revenue gains of 21%– Cost reduction of 19%– Expecting future revenue

gains of 28%Source: Oxford Economics. Real-Time Business - Playing to win in the new global marketplace

Business Goals

• Real-time situational awareness across the enterprise

• Real-time analytics: Predictive maintenance, energy costs, operating efficiency, resource allocation

• Asset management: where are they, how are they being used

• Continuous security assessment and threat response

Example Use Cases

• Sparse, Dynamic Interest from Large Data Set

• Mixed Communication Patterns

• System of Systems Interoperability

Sparse, Dynamic Interest from Large Data Set

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Live Instance DataSet

Mixed Communication PatternsHi Speed Data

SourceFull Resolution Data Analysis

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Low Fidelity Trend IT Analysis

System of Systems Interoperability

Multiple Operational Deployments Business AnalyticsIT Infrastructure

IT ESB / Messaging

Integration Bus capable of supporting all messaging and data patterns

Connector

JMS Client

Web Client

Web ClientWeb

ClientWeb Client

Web Server

OT DataBus

Pub / Sub

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Integration / Interoperability Bus

Connector

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What Makes IT-OT Integration Hard?

Barriers to Adopting Real-Time Operations

Source: Oxford Economics. Real-Time Business - Playing to win in the new global marketplace

IT and OT:Similar but with Important Differences

Source: Gartner

Scale Turns up the Heat

• More things producing and consuming data

• Greater volume of data• System of systems

integration

System

System of systems

Existing infrastructure is breaking under the load

Machine Machine

App

App 3rd Party

App

‘SOAP’

CLOUD

Enterprise

Cloud• Security Services• Asset Services

Real-Time

Near Real-Time

• Heterogeneous• Device to device• SCADA• Multiple Protocols

Today: Batch/DB AnalyticsFuture: real-time analytics

Historian; store-and-forward

Alarms recognized here

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How Do We Get There?Top Down or Bottom Up?

Extreme Performance and Scalability

RTI Bridges the IT-OT Gap

Integration PowerRich Messaging

Connext

Operational Technology (OT)(Devices & Software)

Information Technology (IT)(Business Applications)

RTI Connext Family

Connext Integrator • Integrates OT systems, bridges to IT• Real-time SOA platform

Connext Messaging• App-to-app messaging within a system• Ultra high performance & scalability

Connext Micro • Low memory footprint for small devices• Certifiable to stringent safety standards

Connext DDS • Leading implementation of DDS standard• Foundation of Connext product line

Connext Integrator

Operational Systems Information Technology (IT)

Connext Micro

Connext DDS

Connext Messaging

Connext Foundation: the RTI DataBus™

• Data centric– Structured, accessible data– Like a database for moving

data• Independent modules

– Supports SOA• Plug and play flexibility

– Like a hardware bus• Peer-to-peer performance

– Like streaming protocols• Standards-based

interoperability– Like TCP/IP

Data-Centric Messaging Bus

Scalable, high performance, reliable infrastructure

RTI Connext™: A Next Generation Infrastructure

RTI DataBus™

ConnextMicro

Pub/Sub API

Small Device Apps

ConnextDDS

Pub/Sub API

DDS Apps

ConnextMessaging

Messaging API

General-Purpose Real-Time Apps

ConnextIntegrator

Adapters

Discrete OT & IT Apps/Systems

Administration

Monitoring

Logging

Recording

Replay

Federation

Transformation

PersistenceVisualization

Common Tools and Infrastructure Services

Siemens Wind Power: Limited by Its Infrastructure

• World’s #1 wind turbine manufacturer

• Challenges:– Scale to larger power plants

– Performance increase in sampling rates

– Functional expansion from monitoring to control

• Existing infrastructure was not able to meet these objectives

Siemens Wind Power: Business Goals Achieved

• Active, autonomous monitoring and control of wind farm

– Predictive and preventive maintenance – prevent failures before the occur

– Smart diagnostics – improve availability and efficiency

– Production planning – precise management of power delivery

– Superior grid control – continuous performance tuning of turbines

RTI Connext melds distributed performance with IT business intelligence

U.S. Military Asset Tracking System

Mission:• Track positions of

friendly and hostile forces on the battlefield

• Design goal: 100K tracked updates/sec

Legacy Capability:• 500K lines of code• 8 yrs to develop• 21 servers• Achieved: 20K tracked

updates/sec, reliability and uptime challenges

Poor Performance, Low Reliability, Hard to Maintain

Breakthrough Scalability & Cost Reduction

“This would not have been

possible with any other known technology.”

—Network Ops Center Technical Lead

Next-Gen Capability:• 50K lines of code—

order of magnitude less• 1 yr to develop—8x less• 1 laptop—20x less• Achieved: 250K+

tracked updates/sec, no single point of failure

Takeaways• IT/OT Integration a Real Business Imperative

– Nearly universal mind share in business world– Global and cross-industry– Real, measurable business gains available

• Large Perceived Barriers to Adoption– Technical solutions– Coherent strategies

• Scale exacerbates the problem– Existing infrastructure failing to scale

• RTI’s Connext uniquely addresses this convergence– Edge-to-enterprise real-time SOA

• Performance, scalability, reliability of Operational Systems• Integration and rich communications of Enterprise Systems

RTI Company Snapshot

• World leader in fast, scalable communications software for real-time operational systems

• Strong leadership in Aerospace and Defense; broadening adoption in Industrial Control, Automotive, Healthcare and more

• Over 350,000 deployed licenses in over 500 unique projects

• Privately held

• Based in Silicon Valley

• Worldwide offices

Learn More

http://www.rti.com/mk/bridging-data-gap.html

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