If you are a smaller organization wishing to deploy all EAI components on a single physical server to minimize cost, the following figure illustrates a simpleWindchill ESI deployment that you can use as an example.

In this sample scenario,Windchill PDMLink product designers are co-located with manufacturing users. The Windchill ESI-EAI software components are consolidated on a single physical server. If required, the Windchill and TIBCO servers can also be combined onto one physical server. This scenario illustrates the following best practices to help maximize performance:

In this scenario,Windchill PDMLink and Windchill ESI users and administrators work on a common LAN with direct access to the back-end systems. External users ofWindchill ESI and Windchill ESI systems enter the enterprise through a web server in a secure demilitarized zone (DMZ).