UK OUG - Oracle Fusion Middleware in Irish Life Invesment Managers

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1 UK Oracle User Group – March 2010

Oracle Fusion MiddlewareIn Irish Life Investment Managers

Arnaud BENJACARIntegration Architect, ILIM

Agenda

• About ILIM

• Drivers for SOA

• Oracle Fusion Middleware

• Enterprise Service Bus & Benefits

• Shared Enterprise Service Bus Infrastructure

• Divisional Use Cases

About ILIM

• ILIM is part of the IL&P Group

• Offer full range of investment products to Irish clients with Funds Under Management in excess of €28bn

• Strong focus on Operational Excellence & Product Innovation in a constantly changing environment

Operational Service Excellence

• Process mapping, Execution, Measurement & Improvement

• Shorter lead times for process and software changes

• Service based internal focus

Drivers

Integration

• More buy decisions over build requires integration

• Increased demand for B2B integration from Pension Consultants, other business units in the IL&P group and Third Party Administrators

Shared Services

• Leverage existing assets from each division

• SOA Competency Center

Oracle Fusion Middleware

Use Cases

• Business Process Management- End to End Workflow pattern / long lived- Team collaboration pattern / daily cycle• Oracle Service Bus For Hosting Shared Services- Home grown application- BPM• Oracle Service Bus For system Integration- Packaged applications- External parties

• Shared ESB Infrastructure across the group- High Availability, Load Balancing, Clustering - Hub and spoke topology

2 divisions already into production1 division in POC1 division investigatingHub to be hosted by SOA centre

Enterprise Service Bus

Service

Service Service

Service

ServiceService

Typical Usage

ESB as an integration platformWhere an organisation uses multiple packaged or custom-built applications as well as external systems, there is always a requirement for integrating those together.

ESB as a shared service providerWhere a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been adopted, services may be shared and used across the whole organization and consumed by multiple systems.

• Hides complexity from consumer through proxying

• Provides bridging to legacy applications

• Connects application and services across various platforms and protocols

• Out of the box service monitoring and reporting

• Configuration based

Benefits

Shared Bus Infrastructure

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

ILIM CB RETAIL/BANK?

• 2007 – ILIM SOA Strategy

• 2009 - Shared Bus Infrastructure Available

• Infrastructure support through GIT

• Consultancy through SOA Centre

• Documentation provided

– Principle, Policies & Guidelines (PP&G)

– Standard & Code Of Practice

– Proxy Design Guidelines

– Target Architecture

– Release Kit

– Release Kit Implementation Document

Divisional Use Cases

Irish Life Investment Managers

• Front Office to Back Office integration

• Bespoke client applications

INTEGRATION PLATFORM&

SHARED SERVICE PROVIDER

BENEFITS

• Endpoints easily exposed as services on the bus• Supports good architecture design/implementation around use of integration pattern• Range of protocol transformations e.g. JMS, MQ, FTP/SFTP, SOAP/XML over HTTP/S• Central enforcement of service policies e.g. security

Charles River

Assist

Corporate Business

• Claims Management to multiple LOB systems and Payment Processing system

INTEGRATION PLATFORM

BENEFITS

• Industry standard mechanisms to interface and route information between systems• Messaging & failure management are easier implemented as part of development• Initial projects are illustrating 10% saving in cost of integration, 42% in cost of integration testing and three fold reduction in testing issues found

CBIT – ClaimVantage

2009 Oracle Fusion Middleware Architects of the Year

David JONESHead Architect

Arnaud BENJACARIntegration Architect

Gerard HANIFANUI & Security Architect

Irish Life Investment Managers (ILIM) needed flexibility. That’s why ILIM’s architecture team—David Jones, Gerry Hanifan, and Arnaud Benjacar, Oracle Magazine’s Oracle Fusion Middleware Architects of the Year—has invested heavily in Oracle Fusion Middleware and SOA.

ILIM provides personal financial services in the Irish market. Building on top of its successful Oracle WebLogic Server implementation, ILIM has used Oracle Fusion Middleware to create a shared enterprise service bus infrastructure with a set of common services and integration elements.

“We wanted an architecture that was loosely coupled, would allow us the flexibility to change, and didn’t require special technology skills to manage,” says Jones, head architect, ILIM. “That’s why we selected a one-stop solution from Oracle.”

Security and deployment flexibility are also important to ILIM’s architecture team. “Oracle Fusion Middleware allows you to choose the right security treatment for the range of transport protocols used when integrating with different types of client software,” says Hanifan, UI and security architect, ILIM.

Thank You!

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