Precision Integration for Legacy Applications in the Insurance Industry

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Precision Integration for Legacy Applications

in the Insurance Industry


The Problem

Legacy Applications

10’s of Millions Invested

New Media and Interfaces


Complex Applications


Typical Process


New Media


Host and Target

Legacy

LifeComm

Life70

Cyberlife

Life M

Vantage

Ingenium

Many, many more

New Media

AWD

Customer Service Accelerator

Insurance Policy Administration

SAP for Insurance


ACORD

ACORD (Association for Cooperative Operations

Research and Development) is a global, nonprofit

organization serving the insurance and related

industries.

ACORD facilitates the development of open

consensus data standards and standard forms,

and works with its members and partner

organizations to drive implementation of those

standards.


ACORD Object Model


ACORD Life & Annuity Standard

PDF – 4000 Pages

XSD – 22000 Lines


Transform


The Path

Legacy App


Integration Goals

No Changes

Legacy Applications

Security, Audit, Logging

Standards, Standards, Standards

ACORD

HTTP, SOAP

Web Services

Security

Scalability, Reliability & Performance

Easy to implement, fast to deploy


Traditional Approach

Scales Poorly

Breaks Easily

Poor Performing


HostBridge Approach

Web Services directly out of the host

Scalability, reliability of the host

Millions of transactions a day

Audit, logging, security unchanged

Very high performance

Fine grained orchestration via JavaScript

Easy to learn, standard language, reusable code

Rapid installation, development, testing, deployment

XML as a native data type, great for building ACORD

Table driven bidirectional transformations

Easily maintained


Standards, Standards, Standards

TCP/IP, HTTP, XML (ACORD), JavaScript,

JSON, ATOM, SOAP, WS-I

Eclipse Development Environment

HostBridge plug-in

JavaScript IDE

Transaction Explorer

Develop, Test, Deploy


Integration Architecture


Next Steps

Full Live Demonstration(s)

[email protected]

Pilot Application Workshop (PAW)

Installed on your system

HostBridge Engineer on-site 3-5 days

Web Services developed, tested & deployed

Knowledge Transfer

In-depth Technical Discussions

Active for 30+ days


Our Customers Prove It

My team has been raving about your responsiveness and commitment. In an age when business boils

down to a quick buck and integrity lasts till the next sale, you are head and shoulders above the rest.

CTO, State Department of Transportation

Using HostBridge JavaScript, we developed 40 Web services in 35 man days integrating our CICS

lease management application with our Siebel CRM – and that was just our first implementation.

Manufacturer, Finance Division

Our Web services orchestrate up to 120 CICS screens – HostBridge receives the request, completes

the transactions, packages the results, and returns ACORD XML to the requester. 97% of the time the

service runs in less than a second; median response time is .27 seconds. That’s amazingly fast.

AVP IT, Insurance Company

HostBridge allowed us to rethink our integration more as part of an SOA. The services addressed our

immediate tactical need, but because they’re reusable, they will also let us deliver access to remote

employees, agents, service reps, and customers. HostBridge can grow as our vision grows.

Insurance Provider

HostBridge reduced our contract administration process from one hour to 15 minutes, cut estimated

project development time by 50%, and saved us $500,000 versus outsourced development.

Health Cooperative


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Precision Integration for Legacy Applications in the Insurance Industry