IBM SG24-7645-00 manual Solution Description and Assumptions, Application Server Specialist

7645ProjPlan.fm Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am

transaction processing capabilities have to be at their best at all times. The DBA shall perform the following activities:

￿Trouble shoot database creation

￿Database installation if other than DB2

￿Database optimization

￿Facilitate Database level integrations with enterprise systems

Application Server Specialist

Depending on choice of application server, WebSphere or WebLogic, part time involvement of application server specialist or administrator may be required. This becomes more important if the implementation is complex with many integrations and in a clustered environment.

Integration Specialist

This is an optional group of people and the size and skill of the integration team may vary from customer to customer. Some special systems such as SAP, Oracle and other niche products may require technical experts. Depending on the project the main task will be to facilitate integration with external systems and ensure bidirectional movement of data

The above list of various roles is not a permanent fixture for each project. There can be more roles that are required and more than one person in a role. As mentioned before each project is different and it is hard to generalize, however, we have tried to cover most scenarios that we have encountered in our implementation experiences.

3.2 Solution Description and Assumptions

This section will talk about a high level solution architecture and the standard assumptions that are taken while project planning.

The following figure represents the Maximo Asset Management Essentials solution architecture.

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