PostOffice - Documentation

The pictures below tell the story of a new kind of Data On-Ramp for businesses providing the capability for Instant-ON connectivity . Repeated in a version using fewer details under the Menu listing for Overview , these provide an introduction to quickly constructed, secure connections for sharing data using an open and extensible architecture.

Overview - Instant ON-Ramp for B2B Data Interfaces

Construct new interfaces connecting systems at different companies or systems within a single company. "Instant On-Ramp" data exchange is possible after simple interactions with a WebService that manages source data and subscriptions to the data. PostOffice manages routing of data and protocols for data connections and security. Simple data events at the source trigger data flow between "Publishers" and "Subscribers".


overview

Create New Topic for Publishing Data

Define a new publisher who is creating data and then publishing it on a specific Topic. These definitions cover all activities make data available in a virtual PostOffice (PO).


define a topic in order to publish on the topic

Subscribe to a Topic for Receiving Data

Add a new Subscriber to an existing Topic. So that any "data-has-been-created" events on that topic will result in the data's distribution to the new subscriber


subscribe to a topic

Run Data Interfaces

See key in lower right side for details on this drawing.


publish and subscribe workflow