Messaging System of Enterprises: Complex Network of Data Transfer
Messaging architecture to depict hierarchy and pathway of message/Data transfer in organizations for consistency
The messaging architecture or messaging network of any organization help to set standards for message/Data transfer within company network or outside by sending precise, secure messages between computer systems. Enterprise Messaging Systems (EMS)helps to keep customers well aware of proceedings, keeps teams more productive through faster collaborations and makes business flourishing, ever-growing and trustworthy. Messaging System of Enterprises: Complex Network of Data Transfer allows software applications and systems to communicate messages semantically throughout enterprise.
Messaging system
Messaging system is responsible for transferring data within applications, increasing the ease of focus on data without pulling down the action by intricacies of data transfer and sharing processes.
Messaging decouples the applications from data transferring so that applications can focus only on data and related logic while messaging systems handles the transfer of data.
The messaging system is independent of operating system and programming languages.
Types of messages
The data messages may be of any kind related to any business or personal, whether text data or imagery. Messages for communication even may be
- Verbal (Verbal Face to face, Verbal with distance)
- Non- Verbal
- Written
- Visual
There may be following types of messages depending on style:
- email : (formal/semiformal message sent through office desktop, laptop, mobile
- Short Message Service (SMS) : short and instant messages
- Enhanced Message Service (EMS) : Long and extended messages
- Multimedia Message Service (MMS) : messages with recording, audio visuals, imagery
- Instant Messaging (IM)- For example, WhatsApp chats, conferences, news alerts : response -request messaging for instant responses in real time
- Paging (Earlier forms of messaging) : instant message provided some time to respond not so real time
- HDML Notifications : Handheld Device Markup Language notifications are short messages intended for handheld devices as computers and smartphones.
- Triggers: Messages in response to trigger action generally by a customer visiting a websites or action on websites
- Templates : Previously configured text message in response to a message or send new message.
- Polls : To create message to vote, to check the result so that it is easy to make a decision
- In App Messages : Messages that pop up when user is in your app. These messages will ask user to rate the app, to allow push notification or opt in or subscribe.
- Autoresponders : Scripts automating the email replies is triggered when one user sends email to another.
- RCS : Rich Communication Service new protocol as replacement to SMS and MMS for Android users available for WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram instant messaging platforms.
Messages can be of three types depending on content types: Nominal, Expressive or Predicative.
Nominal message as expressed by words or signals itself are as Genotype, Blood Type, where nominals may be the subject of content and it can be guessed through the object of the message.
Expressive message in which the emotions may speak about the content.
Predicative messages are ones in which the content may contain linking verb and details about the subject from nominal message.
Instant messaging
Instant messaging is real time text messaging between two persons involved in single conversation. Applications connects two users directly and establish a connection for synchronous communication. WhatsApp, Google Talk, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, Skype are all examples of Instant messaging.
Instant Message within workplace environment
Instant messaging at workplace have lots of advantages as:
- It establishes a group communication,
- Break barriers between colleagues to brainstorm and come to common decision.
- It increases work efficiency and creates better connected staff.
- It also helps to reduce cost over other means of communications,
- brings transparency and all staff on same page for seamless working.
Message Queues (MQ)
In computer science message queues are software engineering components for inter process or inter thread communication. Message queue are passing of control to next component. Messages are stored in queue till they are processed and deleted. Message queue are asynchronous service to service communication used in server less and microservices architecture. Advantages of message queues are that they decouple processing heavy loads , Buffer batch processing and smoothen the spikes in workloads.
The system has different designated message queues:
- Workstation message queues
- User profile message queues
- Job message queues
- System Operator message queues
- History log message queues
Message Queues temporarily stores messages and act as endpoint to connect other software components to send and receive messages. Apache Kafka is an open source stream processing program developed by LinkedIn but now under Apache Foundation.
It is similar to Message Queuing in it can help to create Realtime streaming data pipelines and applications to store, process and publish data. It also provides message broker functionality similar to message queue to publish and subscribe to named data streams.
Kafka may be used for traditional messaging though this is not true to use MQ in Kafka specific scenarios. ActiveMQ. RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Spark and Akka are alternatives to Kafka.
