In today's era of digital information intelligence, artificial intelligence technology has gradually penetrated into the production process and practice of enterprises. The application of artificial intelligence has become a new weapon for the digital transformation of modern enterprises. HUAWEI CLOUD's ROMA Connect, an enterprise-level fusion integration service EiPaaS platform, has also entered artificial intelligence technology since this year, launching next-generation applications and intelligent data integration services for several major enterprise integration scenarios.
Application of AI in the field of integration
Since OpenAI released the first version of the ChatGPT AI chatbot at the end of 2022, generative AI has caused a new wave in the field of artificial intelligence. Generative AI is integrated with various software systems, and automatically generates relevant text, pictures, and audio and video according to demand input, reducing costs and improving the efficiency of the company's operational processes and the work efficiency of practitioners. In the field of enterprise integration EiPaaS, some leading vendors are also applying AI to various integration scenarios. For example, Microsoft's Azure cloud uses Power Platform Copilot to describe the automatic generation process through natural language. Copilot configures and builds the process step by step through man-machine dialogue in a way similar to ChatGPT. IBM's App Connect uses AI algorithms to achieve automatic mapping and data conversion between data, and automatically realizes the intelligent construction of data synchronization from source to destination. Among the 17 companies in the 2022 Gartner EiPaaS Magic Quadrant, 11 have deployed AI intelligent integration services, including Huawei's ROMA Connect. Huawei is the first Asian company to enter the Gartner EiPaaS Magic Quadrant for two consecutive years.
HUAWEI CLOUD ROMA Connect is a new generation of enterprise-level integration-as-a-service platform. It integrates common integration scenarios for enterprise digital transformation, including application and service integration, data integration, message event integration, and IOT device integration. ROMA Connect self-developed intelligent integration engine, through machine learning and AI algorithms, we can achieve integration automation, simplification, and intelligence to a certain extent. Overall improve the user experience, accuracy and development efficiency of integrated development.
Intelligent business flow generation
ROMA Connect intelligent service flow generation is an AI capability launched in July this year. Understand the integrated business requirements input by users through NLP (Natural Language Processing) machine learning, match the triggers, connectors and data processors supported by the system, and generate composite applications. Users can further configure and modify the generated application, and finally build and deploy it online.
ROMA Connect users can use the following steps to experience the capabilities of intelligent traffic generation:
1. The entrance of intelligent business flow generation starts from "ROMA Snap" on the home page. Click “ROMA Snap” and a dialog box will pop up.
2. The user describes the composite application he wants to create from the input box, or selects the language description template below the input box.
3. Users can also click the underline, and then replace other triggers, data processors, and connectors.
4. Finally, the user clicks "Enter" to generate a combined application. Then click "Apply Results", the composite application will continue editing on the canvas and deploy the build.
The next version of intelligent business flow generation will enhance the mode of human-computer interaction dialogue. Dialogue prompts for unconfigured nodes in the composite application, or recommends the next connector that can be integrated. In the end, we made it possible for AI to understand the common integrated business language and generate combined applications that meet business needs.
Smart Data Mapping
In addition to intelligent service flow generation, the next-generation ROMA Connect intelligent integration platform will also provide intelligent data mapping capabilities. In a heterogeneous database, the mapping between fields between different tables is used for data migration. Through AI's Name Entity Recognition (named entity recognition) and Similarity Detection (similarity recognition) related algorithms, identify and find out the mapping relationship between fields in different tables. The table fields are automatically mapped.
ROMA Connect intelligent integration engine
The intelligent integration capability of ROMA Connect requires the support of a powerful AI intelligent integration engine. The intelligent integration engine is Huawei's self-developed AI engine, which is scalable and self-learning. Scalability means that the engine can support more capabilities in the future in a plug-in manner, such as intelligent data mapping and intelligent metadata discovery. These plug-in capabilities are loaded in the Online Process component in the figure below and will not affect the overall architecture. Self-learning means that the engine will collect user feedback and use it to retrain the AI model after desensitization. This retraining occurs in the Offline Process component in the figure below. The model is trained through Scheduling Fine-Tune Training. After the verification is successful, it is submitted to the Online Process component for online use.
ROMA Connect is derived from Huawei's more than 10 years of digital transformation practice, creating a new generation of intelligent low-code EiPaaS integration service platform, serving integration developers with the ultimate user experience, and becoming a new weapon for enterprise digital transformation.