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Main Features

API Management

The API-Management of E2E BRIDGE  7 comes with Scheer PAS API Management. API Management offers a maximum of control regarding administration and optimization of your APIs. You can setup different permission levels for usage and administration of APIs, services and clients, and control the publishing of contracts in real-time in a flexible way. Access to the interfaces is possible either via (immutable) contracts or via use of public APIs.

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The API Management solution

of E2E BRIDGE 7

has three components which can be deployed on different host to get maximum performance and stability:

BRIDGE GATEWAY
  • The Gateway Server
enforce
  • enforces all the policies at runtime. It is powered by Eclipse Vert.x to get maximum performance with low resource consumption.
BRIDGE GATEWAY
  • The Gateway Manager can manage one or more BRIDGE
GATEWAYS
  • gateways.
BRIDGE
  • The Auth Server does authentication of service consumers and service developers.
BRIDGE GATEWAY

API Management  is based on apiman and Keycloak.

For more information, refer to the

BRIDGE GATEWAY

APIMGMNT documentation.

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Process

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Mining

The E2E Process Dashboards have been completely redesigned. The new Scheer E2E PASProcess Analytics Mining allows for intuitive and easy creation of new analyses and comes with significant performance improvements.

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Scheer E2E

Process

Analytics

Mining comes with a personalized dashboard view. Manage all your analyses on one page!

  • You can create templates for analyses you need frequently, and these templates can be shared among users.
  • Choose between a variety of diagram types: tachometer, pie chart, line chart, area chart, area spline chart, column chart, bar chart, spline chart, radar chart.

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Create your diagrams to your needs.

  • You can customize the look of your charts by changing the colors, sorting the displayed data and defining if data labels should be displayed.
  • Define a secondary axis to your chart to compare two key performance indicators.
  • Filter your process data by complex filters that can be combined (and/or). It is even allowed to apply a filter multiple times to the same key performance indicator to compare data of e.g. different time ranges.

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Analyze process variants and their frequency with the Process Explorer to get a deeper insight to your business processes and find potential for optimization.

  • The Process Explorer visualizes the most visited paths and processing times.
  • You can apply complex filters to select the considered process instances.
  • Export the process instance data to Excel, CSV, ODS or HTML.

For more information, please refer to to the official Process Analytics Mining documentation (German only).

New Adapters

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The feature includes pre-built service templates including a user interface for configuration of transport channels and communication partners.

OData Support

The E2E BRIDGE now supports OData for querying and updating databases using REST. The protocol allows Web clients to get, publish and edit database resources using simple HTTP messages. Using OData, you can easily integrate with SAP NetWeaver Gateway, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Sharepoint and more.

For more information on the OData Adapter, please refer to OData Adapter and Importing OData.

Continuous Delivery with the

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BRIDGE

  • Based on a straightforward and repeatable process, the continuous delivery approach helps with building, testing and releasing software faster. You can automate your build, deploy, and testing processes using an automation tool together with the E2E BRIDGE command line tools.
    For more information, please refer to Continuous Delivery with the E2E BridgeBRIDGE.
  • For automation purposes, all Bridge functions can be accessed via a REST interface.
    For more information, please refer to E2E Bridge BRIDGE API.
  • The E2E BRIDGE Command Line Interface has been reworked and now offers many new features. You now can access most of the actions of the E2E BRIDGE API via the CLI.
    • viewing and setting the service preferences and the service settings of xUML, Node.js and Java services
    • advanced handling of xUML services (list services, view status, view/change service documentation, list/cancel running sessions, download repository)
    • resource handling (list, upload, delete)
    • listing global variables
    Refer to GitHub for more information.

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Windows Server 2016 now is supported officially as a system to run the E2E BRIDGE on.

New BRIDGE Design

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We have redesigned the user interface of the
E2E
BRIDGE to give you a smoother user experience.

Improved Search in Log Files

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We have refurbished the Logging tab in the user interface of the
E2E
BRIDGE. You now can use regular expression to search the logs and even search throughout all existing logfiles of the service.

For more information, please refer to Logging of xUML Services.

Configurable Service Port Numbers

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Front-end service port numbers now are configurable on the
E2E
BRIDGE.

Technical Changes

We updated some underlying software to newer versions:

  • Node.js updated to version 8 (Carbon)
  • JRE Java updated to version 8u15311
  • proxy updated to Apache httpd version 2.4
  • TLS 1.3 supported

New Features for Modelers

Lots of new features, improvements and bug fixes for E2E BUILDER, E2E ANALYZER and E2E BRIDGE help developers to create better services:

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