Joe McKendrick, ebizQ's SOA in Action Blogger, is a nationally published author and consultant
with deep knowledge and insights regarding trends and developments in
the technology industry. He is a contributing editor to a number of
national and international publications and Websites including
Database Trends & Applications, ZDNet, and Webservices.Org. He also
serves as analyst for Evans Data Corp., and is lead analyst for Evans'
Web services and enterprise development management issues surveys.
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« Bombardier: Talk Business, Not 'SOA' | Main | Why Point-to-Point Integration Costs More than SOA » April 24, 2007Even if Your Systems Hit the Big 4-0, are They Still Ready for SOA? Talk about integration challenges. I recently spoke with a number of insurance companies about their SOA strategies for aging policy administration systems for a new report in Insurance Networking News. In some cases, company policy administration systems were still running on mainframes that were almost four decades old. "I suspect that, like The Hartford, there are many companies that have aging, legacy platforms," said Rich Maynard, property and casualty chief architect for The Hartford Financial Group. This says a lot for the staying power of mainframes, which continue to this day as the workhorses behind 80 percent of the world's data. And, in the case of The Hartford, its commercial lines system is chocked full of logic and applications that gives the carrier a leg up on its competition to this day. The company will modernize some mainframe-based policy administration systems that are now decades old, while replacing others. In some cases, the commercial lines systems provide competitive advantage, while the consumer systems are more of a commodity application that will be replaced. Posted by joemckendrick in SOA | Digg This | Add to del.icio.us Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry:
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