Presentation given at the Microsoft UK Architect Council Meeting at Bletchley Park Presented by John Whiteway, Dave Robertson

1. GEL - Beyond The Core ( Turing Dreams into Reality ) By: D Robertson J W Whiteway Of: AstraZeneca PLC At : Bletchley Park On: June 9 th 2009 For: 45 minutes

2. Fundamentally: GEL is a large Content Management based system, current primary client application is a VB stack – GEL Explorer 5.x Multiple forces have triggered the creation of GEL Explorer 6.0 5.x – monolithic VB application 6.0 – set of WCF services, one WinForm client is GEL Explorer 6.0 – FUNDAMENTAL change in architecture - .net, the opportunities seem endless… - services - GEL “core”, use as required - can we create a pattern for future AZ applications and systems ?

4. Scope: Diagram from http://cyrusxp.com/images/gph_Interoperability.png Security WCF Services GEL Core Binary Stack

6. Business Critical – G lobal E lectronic L ibrary ( GEL ) $$$ Author, Manage, Publish and Track Submissions. Nearly 10,000 users all Regulatory Documents with AstraZeneca THIS SYSTEM SPEEDS UP DRUG SUBMISSIONS 24 / 7 Global usage 2 million documents Enterprise Application 17 Business Areas 75 Sites 50 countries 11,000 submissions / year

8. Interop – GEL #1 – Landscape

9. GEL #2 – Tooling (current) C# DQL, XML, SQL, XPATH, HTML, HTTP, .DOC, .DOCX, SAX, DOM, XSLT, .PDF,

10. Interop – GEL #3 - WCF GEL Explorer Client WCF Services GEL Core GEL Repository Web Services Binary Stack Externalisation Stack Citrix Host Application Server Host Support Tool Client WCF Services GEL Core A.N.Other Client

11. Spot the Interop – GEL #4 Office eCTD .NET / JAVA SuppotTool FutureClient Terminal Server <> Application Server Across application stack

13. Architecture Extensions to Core – Open Forum Alter Boundaries What are some architecture possibilities to cater for scenarios of previous slide ?