Insurance companyAtradiushas
implemented an emerging technology that automates monitoring of
software development.
The roll out of the application development software will
support the migration of key business processes to a service
oriented architecture (SOA).
"We could manage the performance of our software development
without this technology, but we believe that with permanent
automated analysis the efficiency gains are quite significant,"
said Atradius' director of IT services, Jürg Müller.
Atradius is using the application development software from Cast
to improve its development processes. This will enable a speedier
migration of its 25 most important business processes on to its IBM
Websphere SOA.
Because insurance policies are intangible products made possible
by business processes, SOA's potential to enable reuse of those
processes is a particular boon to insurers.
Müller said, "What we will see is quite a significant
improvement in sales because of the reusability of services for our
policy creation processes."
Atradius, which is a specialist credit insurer, plans to move
its most important business processes onto IBM Websphere over a
three-year period, starting with three processes this year.
The first to go live will be a core claims process due to be
transferred this summer.
The Cast application is being used by 25 IT managers in
Atradius' 300-strong IT department to analyse the performance of
its in-house software development.
Over time the application will be extended to about 80 users, as
performance management of the development function becomes more
automated.
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