Investment firm Delta Lloyd Germany, part of
theAviva Group, is using the Perforce
Fast Software Configuration Management (SCM) system to manage its
move to aservice oriented architecture(SOA)
environment.
Perforce is an application development platform that reduces
development time and helps manage software lifecycles. Perforce was
chosen for its functionality, scalability, and integration with
third party technologies.
Perforce is part of the Delta Lloyd "Replacement Host" project,
which aims to switch the firm's existing mainframe applications to
SOA.
The IT project is driven by the company's progression from a
provider of insurance products into a financial services provider,
and by the need to support users outside the company's main
offices.
Delta Lloyd needed to implement more flexible IT systems based
on
SOA, which decouples systems and applications and makes them
available via the web.
To move to SOA and to make its applications available online at
all times, the company needed to redevelop its mainframe-based
COBOL applications using J2EE and C++ on Linux.