Ab Initio Express>IT Architecture

To leverage the benefits of Express>IT, first let’s understand the architecture and the components of this product with the help of an example.

If a business wants to tap the reporting of all the employees in the organization having a salary greater than $100K p.a., the Ab Initio technical user needs to use the Ab Initio ACE component to set the framework where sources will be defined in the form of an Employee Payroll table, required datasets, reference tables, target table file and the relevant fields required. As a result of this, an ACE Template is set.

Subsequently, the business user can access these tables, fields, and elements through this ACE template using the Ab Initio BRE component. The business user can select additional desired fields he wants to use along with the business rule of salary > 100 K which gives the desired output.

Furthermore, the BRE puts the business user in the driver’s seat when it comes to verifying the business rules. The business users are not only able to put the rules directly into the system, they are also able to immediately see the results of applying those rules to the test data. If they don’t like what they see, they can instantly change the rules, saving an enormous amount of time.

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Unlock the Potential

Bitwise can analyze client needs and formulate a strategic plan that utilizes these advanced features within Ab Initio to achieve increased flexibility and drive a better level of service to customers. Some of these special features and documented benefits include:

• Metaprogramming
  • Create dynamic transformations and Data Manipulation Languages (DMLs)
  • Fields were populated runtime, saving coding efforts
• BRE (Business Rules Engine)
  • BRE is used to understand, cleanse, validate and map data coming from different sources
  • Provide more flexibility and enhanced testing and simulation capability, which helps for qualifying the data
• ACE (Ab Initio Configuration Environment)
  • ACE is used to increase automation and avoid redundancy
  • Through ACE, business analysts can write and edit a set of rules to validate and manipulate data passed to the application, increasing efficiency
• ICFF (Indexed Compressed Flat File)
  • Create ICFF files for faster processing
  • ICFF files allow for huge volumes of data without taking up a lot of space in the main memory
• Web Services
  • Web Services can be implemented in a real-time manner to give instant alerts to the customers

Increased Return on Investment

Our utilization of these special advanced features within Ab Initio has resulted in documented increases in ROIs from several large clients. These increases allowed the clients to realize specific, related business benefits, including:

• Shorter duration of total batch, resulting in less people to support leading to significant cost savings for client
• Increased alignment to meet strategy for business capabilities
• Enabled cost-effective scalability
• Optimized processing and development efficiency

Key Benefits

Developers

• Ease of code maintenance
• Reduction in total run-time of applications
• Realized effort savings of 27% (man-hours on 350 graphs down from 4400 to 3200)

Business Analysts

• Enhanced business rule transparency and auditing
• Easily implement the Business Rules through the advanced features like ACE/BRE without the intervention of the developers

 You can download the detailed PDF version of this use case here.

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1. Establish end-to-end data lineage across Data Warehouse components to ensure accurate Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
2. Build accurate reporting for regulatory compliance, supporting Risk Management efforts
3. Optimize the maintenance cost and bring in operational effectiveness

The Bitwise Approach

This service prevents scheduled effort overruns and improves the developers’ efficiency by utilizing automated code validation. It is recommended to be executed in a phased manner as structured below for best results (however, any phase can also be executed as an independent initiative):

1. Assessment
• Accurately defines work scope for making applications Enterprise Meta Environment (EME) compliant
• Lowered space utilization and maintenance cost
• Zero manual efforts

2. Building Compliance
• Automated testing process
• Build a knowledge repository that will record solutions for all the issues encountered
• Automated validation of changes generates a detailed report on the applied fix

3. Validation
• Automated validation process ensures that all the EME errors are addressed, and that the solutions implemented to resolve EME errors have in no way impacted existing function of the application
• Elaborate test record to support faster turnaround for approvals
• Reduced engagement of Client-side SME/stakeholders

4. Safeguarding Compliance
• EME-compliant application template that speeds up the development of a new application, and reduces manual effort by creating a graph with EME-compliant parameter set
• Best practices/standardization, ensures EME compliance of applications developed in future

Key Benefits

Based on past successes, Bitwise has found that using this automated Validation Function results in an up-to-30% effort savings per application and optimum engagement of client Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).

 You can download the detailed PDF version of this use case here.

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