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Progress Software announced that the Farmers Alliance Mutual
Insurance Company (FAMI) will deploy the Progress Sonic Enterprise Service Bus
(ESB) in order to streamline its enterprise information technology (IT)
infrastructure and integrate several discrete applications, which are dispersed
across various platforms. FAMI is undergoing a multi-year cost optimization
project within their IT environment and regards the Sonic ESB as an integral
part of their ability to reduce costs.
Currently FAMI’s core applications - such as billing, policy administration and
claims management systems - run on a variety of platforms in a decentralized
environment. Using the Sonic ESB, FAMI will integrate dozens of discrete
internal and external business applications under a single, loosely-coupled
architecture, which is expected to lead to reduced customer costs, improved
time-to-market for new products and services, and enhanced customer service.
Prior to the deployment of the Sonic ESB, it would take several months for a
new insurance offering to be integrated within the FAMI system. However, using
the Sonic ESB, FAMI expects to reduce turnaround time by more than 50 percent,
while improving time-to-market by as much as three months for a typical integration
project.
For example, FAMI is using the Sonic MQ and ESB products to expose AcroSoft
document storage and retrieval services. The Sonic ESB product allows FAMI to
transform messages to and from its canonical data model, which will ease integration
by minimizing the configuration effort required within numerous disparate
systems. The ESB allows the company to abstract the complexities particularly
involved with storing documents and setting up folder structures by using ESB
itineraries to orchestrate the process. FAMI also leverages a number of base
and custom ESB service types in this effort, including XML transformation, Web
service invocation, and content-based routing.
The Sonic ESB will enable FAMI to connect with third party information
providers. Historically, such a complex effort would take four to six months to
accomplish. Cost savings resulting from these efficiencies will greatly benefit
FAMI policyholders through enhanced insurance products and improvement in
FAMI’s ability to respond to market conditions.
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