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Nowadays, a company’s IT department is more interconnected and dependent across all of its divisions and functional groups. The base of this interdependency within global organizations is reliable and quick information flow across vast Enterprise Service Bus‘ (ESBs), which are operating underneath complex Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), and Complex Event Processing (CEP) deployments. Every managerial decision or corporate strategy affects these message networks, which increases the importance of having the latest data about these deployments and its customizations exponentially. This information is not only critical for your IT department during the implementation, but also serves as a basis for managerial decisions during day-to-day operations.  MakeDoc for webMethods is able to increase your IT departments productivity, decrease the time required for business requirement implementations, increase your system‘s uptime, and allow your IT department to provide accurate, technical level feedback on proposed decisions.  By using MakeDoc for webMethods as a complementary product to  enhance the responsiveness of your webMethods Integration Server packages, your company will experience: 1.) Faster fulfillment of market demands 2.) Bring you a step ahead of your competitors and in conclusion 3.) Lead to happier customers.  It’s not your SOA and CEP platform that cares about your customers..... IT’S YOU!  So use MakeDoc for webMethods to leverage webMethods Integration Server to a new level of efficiency.

• Documented Middleware: Continuous availability of up to date and consistent documentation for your middleware platform. Visibility into your actual deployments benefits solution architects, developers, support and operation, and management.  MakeDoc’s Microsoft Word output format allows for unlimited customization for presentations to emphasize critical points to a specific audience (clients, management, etc.).
• Business Requirements Transformation: On average, 30% of time for transforming a business requirement from its functional to technical specifications is saved.  You can choose the depth of documentation detail so analysts and integration architects are not burdened by too detailed and technical issues. Clear communication lines for your team will be established. End user testing and hand over procedures will be simplified.
• Operation & Release Management: Standard system operation and new deployments can be monitored and controlled more effectively. MakeDoc automatically generates snapshots of your test and production platform by running in batch mode. Different versions can be stored and compared using MakeDoc’s built in Repository Analyst. Deltas of platform versions are created and stored and should downtime occur, IT teams focus on highlighted items that changed immediately before the error occured, saving 90% of time to identify source and location of the problem.

Features

• Creates real-time visibility into your webMethods SOA/middleware deployment, projects, and legacy systems. MakeDoc’s output is a well-arranged, organized and uniform, printable document with searchable indices to save your time.
• Automatically generates comprehensive documentation into several output formats. HTML output format is hyperlinked, easy to use and you can see your documentation in any web browser. PDF prints your completed projects in an elegant format within minutes. The Microsoft Word format (*.docx) allows for unlimited customization in presentations.
• Written in Java and therefore portable among different operating systems.
• Able to run as a scheduled batch process -automatically generates middleware documentation: pulling from a centralized storage archive, at a set time frame, and sending the documentation to a specified folder.

Documented Software

• Generates the documentation of  webMethods Integration Server (IS) resources:
  • Document types provides support for all webMethods Integration Server field types, links to other Document types and supports Specifications too.
  • Integration Server Schema types including support for imported types from DTD/XSD.
  • Flow Service types including generated Flow sequences, documentation for Input/Output data and Mapping tables.
  • Java Service types includes full Source Code if available, with syntax highlighting.
  • Web Services provides documentation of Binding and Operations, full linking with Document types and Specifications, Namespaces and cross linking.
  • Triggers for JMS/Broker with support for conditions and routing rules.
  • Flat File Adapter and Flat File Dictionaries including unique overview tables.

MakeDoc for webMethods Provides 3 Main Services

• Project Documentation provides detailed and comprehensive information about an unlimited number of IS packages.
• Cross-Reference links the communication between destinations and packages. Cross-Reference by Destinations produces a list of packages communicating with selected destination. Supports JMS, Broker, Web Services, SOAP and FTP. Cross-Reference by Packages provides a list of all destinations referenced by selected package.
• Repository Analyst manages the repository of documentations generated and allows the tracking of changes and development progress among versions.