Delta Lloyd switches to SOA.Delta Lloyd Germany, part of the international Aviva Group, has announced it is using Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ) system, to manage its move to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) environment. Perforce is an important part of the Delta Lloyd "Replacement Host" project, the goal of which is to completely switch its existing mainframe applications to SOA. This 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 transition to SOA and to make its applications available online at all times, the company needed to redevelop its mainframe-based COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. applications using J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. and C++ on Linux. www.perforce.com. |
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