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The world of enterprise infrastructure software is undergoing dramatic change. Driven by the need to improve efficiencies and optimize their businesses, companies that operate large, physical systems (sometimes called operational systems) at the operational edge are actively working to merge those systems with their IT business applications. Because enterprise and operational systems are designed around very different architectures, integrating these worlds into a coherent system-of-systems is a sobering technical challenge. For example, a typical industrial automation system might generate 10's of millions of discrete data points; how does the operational infrastructure move a dynamically changing subset of interest to the IT system's enterprise service bus without overwhelming the ESB and associated system resources?
To meet the challenge, RTI has introduced RTI Connext, a next-generation software infrastructure that fully supports the business objective of integrating IT and OT (operational technology) systems. Based on the RTI DataBus™ which has been designed into hundreds of high-performance, distributed systems, RTI Connext combines the performance, scalability, and reliability needed by operational systems with the integration and flexible messaging capabilities of IT systems. Connext is the first edge-to-enterprise real-time SOA platform.
2. 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
5. IT-OT: An Evolutionary Context
Convergence: Integration: Alignment:
Technology Uniformity Meaningful Connectivity Holistic Governance
• Linux Operating System • Exchanging data in real-time • Uniform Management
• Oracle Data Base • Automating Control • Policy Enforcement
• Intel Processors • Sharing Services • Streamline Operations
• TCP/IP • Achieving Business Gains
6. 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?
7. Summarizing the Benefits of
Motivation for IT-OT Integration
IT/OT Integration
Costs Risks Speed Strategic
Advantage
Lower project costs Improved cyber Faster project Enhanced business
security implementation model
Reduced costs of Downtime Coherent standards Enhanced
software avoidance through simplify design and information for
procurement integrated upgrade build better decisions
testing
Reduced software Integrated technical Unified project New products and
licensing costs support teams with right services
skills
Reduce software Failure due to OT Integrated life cycle
support costs Software Mis- management
Management
Source: Kristian Steenstrup, Gartner
8. Real-Time Business
“Processes that allow companies to conduct a range of business
activities instantaneously”
• Management level • Operational level
– Accelerate decision making – Speed up data capture
and planning – Reduce inventories
– Exploit market opportunities – Minimize business risks
faster – Lower operational costs
– Identify competitive threats – Accelerate speed to market
sooner
– Foster productivity
– Cope with market shifts more
quickly – Better meet customer needs
– Transform stagnating
businesses
Source: Oxford Economics. Real-Time Business -
Playing to win in the new global marketplace
9. Oxford Economics Survey
• Survey of 525 execs in • Operational Goals
four industries, 13 – Improvements in:
countries • Customer experience
– 30 % have already started • Production processes
implementing, 65% plan to • Supply chain management
over the next 5 years
• Substantial results by
• Primary Strategic Goals early adopters
– Increase market share – Revenue gains of 21%
– Build service/quality – Cost reduction of 19%
advantages – Expecting future revenue
– Expand addressable gains of 28%
market
Source: Oxford Economics. Real-Time Business -
Playing to win in the new global marketplace
10. 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
11. Example Use Cases
• Sparse, Dynamic Interest from Large Data Set
• Mixed Communication Patterns
• System of Systems Interoperability
12. Sparse, Dynamic Interest from Large Data Set
Sensors, Assets, Live Instance
Sources DataSet
S1
S2
S3
S4
S5
S6
S7
S8
S9
Sn
100’s, 1,000’s
1,000,000’s
13. Mixed Communication Patterns
Hi Speed Data Full Resolution Data Analysis
Source
Pub Sub Sub Sub
Sn S9 S8 S7 S6 S5 S4 S3 S2 S1
IT/OT
Bridge
Server
Response
Response
Response
Request
Request
Request
S4 Sn S9
JMS Web AMQP
Client Client Client
Low Fidelity Trend IT Analysis
14. System of Systems Interoperability
Business Analytics
Multiple Operational Deployments IT Infrastructure
Pub / Pub / Pub / / Pub / Pub /
Pub Web Web
Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub
Sub Server Web
Web
Client
Web
Client
Client
Client
Pub / Pub / Pub // Pub / Pub /
Pub JMS
Sub Sub Sub Sub Sub
Sub Client
Connector Connector
Connector Connector
Integration Bus capable of supporting all
messaging and data patterns
15. 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
16. IT and OT Are Similar But Have
Important Differences OT:
IT and
Similar but with Important Differences
IT OT
Purpose • Managing Information, • Managing Assets, Controlling
Automate Business Processes Technology Processes
Architecture • Transactional or Batch, • Event-Driven, Real-Time,
RDBMS or Text Embedded Software,
Rule Engines
Interfaces • Web Browser, Terminal and • Sensors, Coded Displays
Keyboard
Ownership • CIO and Computer Grads, • Engineers, Technicians
Finance, Procurement and LOB Managers
Connectivity • Corporate Network, IP-Based • Control Networks
(Increasingly IP-Based
and Wireless)
Examples • ERP, SCM, CRM • SCADA, PLCs, Modeling,
E-mail, EAM, Billing Control Systems
Source: Gartner
17. Scale Turns up the Heat
• More things producing
and consuming data
• Greater volume of data
• System of systems
integration
System of
systems
System
Existing infrastructure is breaking under the load
18. How Do We Get There?
Top Down or Bottom Up?
Cloud CLOUD
• Security Services
• Asset Services
App
‘SOAP’ 3rd Party
Enterprise
Single data bus
App Historian; store-and-
forward
Today: Batch/DB
Alarms recognized App
Near Real-Time here
Analytics
Future: real-time
analytics
• Heterogeneous
• Device to device
Real-Time Machine Machine • SCADA
• Multiple Protocols
19. RTI Bridges the IT-OT Gap
Operational Technology (OT) Information Technology (IT)
(Devices & Software) (Business Applications)
Extreme Performance Integration Power
and Scalability Rich Messaging
Connext
20. RTI Connext Family
Connext Integrator
Operational Systems Information Technology (IT)
Connext Connext Connext
Micro DDS Messaging
Connext Integrator Connext Micro
• Integrates OT systems, bridges to IT • Low memory footprint for small devices
• Real-time SOA platform • Certifiable to stringent safety standards
Connext Messaging Connext DDS
• App-to-app messaging within a system • Leading implementation of DDS standard
• Ultra high performance & scalability • Foundation of Connext product line
21. 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
Data-Centric Messaging Bus • Peer-to-peer performance
– Like streaming protocols
• Standards-based
interoperability
– Like TCP/IP
Scalable, high performance, reliable infrastructure
22. RTI Connext™: A Next Generation Infrastructure
Discrete OT & IT
Small Device General-Purpose Apps/Systems
DDS Apps
Apps Real-Time Apps
Pub/Sub API Pub/Sub API Messaging API Adapters
Connext Connext Connext Connext
Micro DDS Messaging Integrator
RTI DataBus™
Administration Recording Federation
Monitoring Replay Transformation
Logging Visualization Persistence
Common Tools and Infrastructure Services
23. 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
24. 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
25. U.S. Military Asset Tracking System
Mission: Legacy Capability:
• Track positions of • 500K lines of code
friendly and hostile • 8 yrs to develop
forces on the battlefield • 21 servers
• Design goal: 100K • Achieved: 20K tracked
tracked updates/sec updates/sec, reliability
and uptime challenges
Poor Performance, Low Reliability, Hard to Maintain
26. Breakthrough Scalability & Cost Reduction
Next-Gen Capability:
“This would not • 50K lines of code—
order of magnitude less
have been
• 1 yr to develop—8x less
possible with any • 1 laptop—20x less
other known • Achieved: 250K+
technology.” tracked updates/sec, no
single point of failure
—Network Ops Center
Technical Lead
27. 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
28. 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