Interoperability questions

Interoperability questions

The following questions related to the ability to interoperate the solution within the vertical industries that the product set supports and other vendors in these sectors. Interoperability also works within the technology stack that the solution runs on and needs to co-exist with other technologies and vendor solution platforms.

Industry interoperability

1. What industry taxonomies relevant to Unilever data object types do you support;

2. What OLAP, MOLAP, HOLAP standards do you support

3. What data warehouse, data mart ontology’s do you major within the use of data sources and storage. Examples: Corporate Information factory (Dimensional data mart) (CIF), Data Bus and Star structures

4. What data interchange standards do you support relating to Business Intelligence, DRM and DW best practices. Examples: XBRL (Extensible Business reporting Language); RDF ( Resource Description Framework), OWL (Web Ontology Language), SPARQL (Query Language for RDF)

5. What ETL functions do you have contained within your solution, product set to enable data upload or replication exchange

6. What specific industry standards boards relevant for Unilever do your company participate, drive and what future does this involve towards future technology product development for interoperability. Examples, Open source forms, Open Standards forums; domestic and distribution

7. What configuration and version audit processes and solutions do you support within your solution, product set

8. What virtual data management and federated data coordination functionality do you support for federated data query and/or data source extraction

Technology interoperability

1. What standards of presentation level does the solution set support to enable personalisation and aggregation or sharing of functionality with other technologies. Examples: JSR 168 (Java Spec Request) for interoperability of portlets across different platforms, XML (Data), XSLT (Structure), CSS (Design), JAVAScript / ECMA (Behaviour), AJAX.

2. What data / content schema formats do you support to enable open interoperability of data exchanges. Examples: W3C's XML Schema (XML, XSL, XSD), ebXML Collaboration Protocol Profile (CPP) references schema for instance data being used in a service or collaboration of services, Complex schemas - OASIS, BODs

3. What specific web service standards do you support for interoperability. Examples: WS*I - WS-I Simple SOAP Binding Profile, WSDL (W3C) used to express related schema fragments constrain XML instance data being passed in and out of services, W3C's XML Schema, Microsoft .NET Web service CLS framework IL ; XML schema notations

4. What specific API adapters do you have and support to expose your product for service oriented interoperability at the data , functional logic and/or business process/workflow level?

5. What Policy level management for configuration of enabling web services or data exchange to work for interoperability and data migration. Examples: WS Policy; Registry formats , examples: ISO/IEC 11179 Part 3 (ISO standard for metadata registries), OASIS ebXML Registry-Repository Technical Specifications, OASIS UDDI Technical Specification, UDDI version 2 (supports external UDDI) UDDI v3

6. What connectivity protocols do you support. Examples: HTTP/S, HTML, JavaScript, .NET, JDBC, MQ, FTP

7. What specific versions of Business process schema notations do you support: Examples, BPEL 1.1, BPEL 2.0, ARIS Translation

8. What are the major deploy platforms your solution , product set core native implementations run on. Example: J2EE Framework, .NET Framework, LAMP

9. What components of your solution , product set are open source

10. What components of your solution , product set are configured and available to be bought and used as Software as a service (SaaS)

11. What security standards for interoperability do you support. Examples: Federated ID using Liberty / SAML 1.1, WS-Fed, ID-IFF.; Support external access directories e.g. RAD NS and LDAP; Netlogin (Activity Directory and LDAP; X.509 Digital certificates and OCES Certificates, Act 404

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