SOA: The Finish Line

Challenge

To support its growing business and better react to customer needs, The Finish Line (TFL) needed a more flexible infrastructure to replace a combination of third-party point-of-sale and back-office systems used to manage its inventory. The driving requirements were to make the ordering process seamless for the customer and to provide near-real-time updates to inventory so that accurate order fulfillment decisions could be made.

Solution

Perficient created a messaging infrastructure that allows TFL's third-party systems to integrate with pre-existing back office systems through standard methods such as SOAP over HTTP as well as via MQ. The third-party POS system was enhanced to support SOAP messaging.

Features WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere MQ provided high-performance, scalable infrastructure solution that can serve as a basis for future integrations for the enterprise The Finish Line now has a messaging infrastructure to use as the backbone of an ESB	Benefits Solution can be used as a building block to pursuing a full SOA Previously disparate systems now communicate seamlessly