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Shared Platform (SOA) Design, Prototyping and Adoption Services
ValueMomentum assists Client with architecture consulting, prototyping for adoption of a platform aimed at being the foundation for a multi-year transformational initiative
Industry
Insurance
Client
Leading Mid-western Regional Life Insurer
Needs addressed
Rationalize & Standardize Siloed systems
Our Client aimed to move to a service-oriented architecture that emphasized modularization, flexibility, reusability, automation and platform independence, amongst other goals.
- Their current IT infrastructure was inflexible, exponentially expensive to maintain and enhance upon, and had suffered from inadequate investments for over a decade.
- In order to align the IT infrastructure with the new business goals of achieving Customer-centricity, our Client sought to transform the IT infrastructure in a “Greenfield” approach.
Technology Solution Delivered
Application Maintenance & Transformation
- ValueMomentum studied the Client's detailed business process and functional requirements documents across product lines, proposed key technology components and their business benefits to assist them in finalizing their conceptual architecture.
- The target environment involved moving to a J2EE, DB2 environment with frameworks such as Business Rules engine (from ILOG), WSAD development environment and RUP methodology.
- ValueMomentum also demonstrated viability of this “platform” by developing a proof-of-concept on a select product application, which was presented to executive leadership.
- Future roadmap involves incorporating additional frameworks such as Business Process Management Engines, EAI frameworks and enterprise common object models. Tools such as legacy code extraction and analysis and screen scraping are also being evaluated to aid in the initiatives
Execution model
At site, T&M
Technologies used
J2EE, DB2, BRE (from ILOG), WSAD, RUP methodology;
Benefits delivered
- The Client has completed laying the foundation for the SOA Shared Platform and has initiated several development initiatives as part of a multi-year program using this foundation
- Reduced development costs, enhanced agility and significant ability to deliver “market-leading” services to partners and customers have proven the value of the SOA Shared Platform.
