Project Phases

When you integrate a cloud application for the first time, you will naturally try to understand the sequence of steps to succeed in creation of an APS application that will integrate your cloud application with the platform. Here, you will find the process with recommended common steps outlined for the beginners. Later in your practice, you will probably use a bit different sequence as well as miss some of the depicted steps.

Integration Workflow

Generally, an integration process consists of the learning, design, development, and testing (with debugging) phases each split into several steps as presented in the following diagram.

Role based Activity

The following table contains the integration activity and involvement of staff into this process.

ACTIVITY	Outcome	Will Product Manager	Roger Solution Architect	Kevin Integration Developer
Learn: Operations Support System	- Knowledge and skills in managing fundamental service and business components of the platform - Deployed and provisioned APS demo application	Yes	Yes	Yes
Learn: Business Support System	- Knowledge and skills in creating basic platform products for sale - Product based on an APS demo application and configured for sale	Yes	Depends on resource model	Depends on resource model
Learn: Prerequisites	- Knowledge and skills in development, deployment, and testing of an APS integration package - Completed APS demo projects	Yes	Yes	Yes
Design: Sales Model	Sales model for own application	Yes	Depends on sales model	Depends on sales model
Design: Offer Review (1st certification step)	Approved service assessment checklist	Yes	–	–
Design: Requirements for Solution Architect	Design requirements for a solution architect (Roger)	Yes	–	–
Design: APS Resource Model	APS resource model for the application	Yes	–	–
Design: Scenarios Design (Under Development)	User scenarios and wireframes	–	Yes	–
Design: Information Architecture	Documents in the form of tables: - UI contents - APS types - required relations, properties, structures, and operations	–	Yes	–
Design: Wireframes	Graphical layout of screens and pop-up windows	–	Yes	–
Design: Design Review (2nd certification step)	Approved documents: - Resource model - User Scenarios - Wireframes	Yes	Yes	–
Design: Requirements for Integration Developer	Requirements for the developer (Kevin): - Integration points - User scenarios - Information architecture - Wireframes	–	Yes	–
Develop: Meta Definition	- Meta description of integration components - List of backend executables	–	–	Yes
Develop: Provisioning Logic	- APS types - PHP scripts	–	–	Yes
Develop: Presentation Logic	HTML, JavaScript, and JSON files implementing application UI	–	–	Yes
Test: Testing and Debugging	Prototype of the integration package	–	–	Yes
Test: Implementation Review (3rd certification step)	Approved package prototype and the following documents: - Service Provider Deployment Guide - Subscriber Guide - QA Test Sheets	Yes	Yes	Yes
Test: Technical Review (4th certification step)	Certified package uploaded to the APS catalog	Yes	Yes	Yes

The outlined process includes four certification overview steps that ISV needs if they are going to make the application package publicly available through the APS catalog. Otherwise, they can plan similar internal reviews using the recommended certification documents linked from the above table.

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