Rail: Integrating MIMS to others systems such as CRM

[jbarrett]

Has anyone managed to, or have any examples of integrating MIMS into other corporate applications such as CRM systems for enquries regarding the asset base within the Rail industry. I am particularly looking at realtime integration at the Tuxedo level using mechanisms such as the API's.

 

[manniondp]

If MIMS is a laboritory management application, I have integerated this into into a Tuxedo environment.

I implemented a large custom message broker application at Yorkshore Water using Tuxedo as the messaging backbone. We sucessfully integrated a MIMS laboratory management package into this environment. Of the possible solutions I reviewed as the designer, we chose to use a TCP/IP sockets interface.

For Synchronous Communication In/Out:
For communication out of MIMS a custom Tuxedo Client program was written to act as a socket Server and the MIMS application commuicated sent messages to the the socket for communication to the Tuxedo environment. For communication into MIMS a custom Tuxedo Service was written to act as a socket client and MIMS acted as the Socket server.

For Asynchronous Communication In/Out:
A variation of the above theme was implemented using Tuxedo /Q.

Hope this is of some help, please get in touch if you require further info damien.mannion@dpmsoft.co.uk.
Damien

 

[sdoughty]

MIMS Connector should provide what you are looking for - it provides an API to a set of defined MIMS objects (eg Equipment, Work Orders etc), and also to the MSO programs where an object is not available. You will need to talk to Mincom.

I don't know anything about developing for Tuxedo, but if you can extend your CRM app in a development environment (eg VB or Java), then Connector goes through the MIMS application - ie the integration occurs at the user interface level.

Hope this helps...

Steve