| Project summary | Implemented SOA technologies, patters and practices to improve ability to mesh legacy systems together to provide unified, real-time access to all of their information. Established roadmap for future SOA initiatives |
| Customer | Leading insurance provider |
| Project geography | USA |
| Project objective | Business objectives:- Respond to the growing cost pressures on the insurance market, but also adapt to the fundamental shift in the nature of the insurance business
- Improve ability to develop and package services that are tailored to customers’ individual insurance requirements, a major departure from their traditional standardized offerings
- Address the growing problem of system complexity in order to gain the flexibility and efficiency needed to compete in a changing market
- Reduce time and cost of developing the new consumer services that were becoming increasingly important
Technical objectives: - Enable more flexibility in integration of existing legacy applications share information
- Finding a flexible way to mesh legacy systems together to provide unified, real-time access to all of their information
- Replace the rigid point-to-point integration that had served the purpose with a more flexible SOA framework
- Simplify the integration between various technology platforms (Windows, Java, iSeries)
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| Project highlights | - Deployed SOA based on IBM WebSphere technologies
- Identified near-term initiatives and strategic steps to realize value from SOA investments
- Established a roadmap of projects to realize additional value from its investments in SOA
- Developed a governance structure for managing its SOA architecture
- Created a Center of Excellence structure that fosters new ideas and accelerates adoption of SOA
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| Project description | Project was implemented with IBM WebSphere technologies:- IBM WebSphere Message Broker
- IBM WebSphere Process Server
- IBM WebSphere Application Server
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