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Frank Oliver Hoffmann

Christoph Hofmann

Ankur Bhatt

Juergen Frank

Christoph Liebig

Steven T Winkler

Daniel Ritter

Till Westmann

Gunther Rothermel

Joerg Ackermann

Christian Illenberger

Christian Becker

The present disclosure involves systems and methods for providing end-to-end tamper protection in a cloud integration environment. One example method includes receiving, at a receiver in a cloud-based integration scenario, a B2B communication from a sender including data associated with a business transaction, the received communication in a target format. The cloud-based integration system transforms the original communication in a source format into the target format of the receiver. A digitally-signed sender fingerprint of critical fields extracted from the set of data associated with the at least one business transaction in the source format of the original B2B communication are received and verified as signed by the sender. A receiver fingerprint in the target format is generated using the critical fields from the received communication based on a pre-defined algorithm. The sender fingerprint and the generated receiver fingerprint are compared to determine if they are identical.

End-to-end tamper protection in presence of cloud integration

A computer program product tangibly embodied in a computer readable storage device includes a business network meta model comprising entity objects configured to generate interactive representations of a business network, including at least a business application representation and an information technology representation.

Business network meta model

A computer-implemented method includes displaying virtualization level options for a business network to a user, the virtualization level options including at least: a first virtualization level option that includes externalizing interaction logic in the business network, a second virtualization level option that includes virtualizing content in the business network, and a third virtualization level option that includes virtualizing components in the business network. The method includes receiving a selection by the user of at least one of the virtualization level options. The method includes initiating a virtualization process in the business network according to the selected virtualization level option.

Integration middleware virtualization

Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products implementing a messaging protocol. The messaging protocol may be a messaging protocol for transporting a message across a messaging landscape in a collaborative network. Techniques include sending a message that is defined to include a structured message header with information related to at least one component from a set of components defined by a protocol, including protocol version information in a message such that a component of a messaging landscape can interpret the message based on the version information, defining a message as one of a class of messages, end-to-end acknowledgement for messages, and security for headers and payloads of messages.

Messaging protocol in enterprise applications

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Wiesloch, Germany

Frank Oliver Hoffmann