Systems/Enterprise:
PRIMA ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF SOFTWARE FOUNDATION FOR SOAs
Prima Solutions announced the forthcoming availability of Prima Platform 4.0,
the latest release of the company's software foundation which simplifies and
accelerates the development of service-oriented insurance applications.
Version 4.0 reinforces the key features required to implement a Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) in an insurance organization available in version
3.1 and delivers an extended set of functionalities improving its
effectiveness and usability. Prima Platform delivers insurance organizations
with the sole standards-based software foundation 100 percent dedicated to the
Insurance industry ensuring a rapid and secure implementation of SOA
principles.
"Insurance organizations worldwide are quickly maturing in their understanding
of the benefits of SOA to secure core business efficiency improvements and
facilitate gradual legacy systems transformations. They therefore value the
proposition of a powerful and proven software enablement foundation, 100
percent dedicated to insurance, to support the development of their new
service-oriented process-enabled business applications," said Xavier Boileau,
executive vice president of product strategy at Prima Solutions. "Prima
Platform has been designed from day one to serve that purpose. It remains to
date the sole standards-based software foundation solely dedicated to the
rapid and secure enablement of the SOA vision in the Insurance industry."
"To design Prima Platform 4.0 we have relied on extensive feed-backs received
from customers and prospects," added Fadel Hachem, executive vice president of
product delivery at Prima Solutions. "We have therefore ensured that this new
version includes improved key SOA-enablement features delivered in earlier
versions as well as a host of new capabilities increasing Prima Platform's
effectiveness and usability in the delivery of the service-oriented insurance
applications required by insurance organizations."
Prima Platform 4.0 delivers in a single coherent software foundation the key
features required to implement service-oriented insurance applications:
real-time systems integration; unified insurance semantic model; unified
services repository; business services orchestration; process management; and
portal infrastructure, and introduces an extended business studio, a unified
services management framework, support for JSR 168, enhanced complex business
process management capabilities, a real-time process simulator enabling
developers to instantly validate process definitions as well as improved
developer's productivity.
Prima Platform 4.0 includes seven integrated modules:
- Prima IBCS, Prima Solutions reference insurance model, delivers the
conceptual and implementation views of core insurance processes, services and
data objects. Prima IBCS covers the core life, pensions and non-life processes
of new business, underwriting, policy administration and claims.
- Prima Platform Repository provides the key features required to manage and
maintain the vast number of assets (business services, business processes and
rules) implied by a cross-enterprise SOA implementation.
- Prima Platform Execution Engines enables four key technical capabilities
required for the delivery of service-oriented insurance applications:
- Real-time systems integration to leverage core transactions and data
located in existing systems
- Services orchestration to easily assemble business services and manage
services granularity issues
- Rules-based process automation to orchestrate insurance processes requiring
the interaction of several audiences
- Portal framework to support the deployment of roles-based insurance
applications
- Prima Platform Business Studio provides a unified environment for the
management of insurance business data (product or organization) relevant to
the definition of business processes and end-user applications.
- Prima Platform Development Studio enabling the configuration of all Prima
Platform engines leveraging Prima IBCS, Prima Solutions reference insurance
model.
- Prima Platform Business Monitoring enabling business analysts and
management to follow key business metrics in real-time.
- Prima Platform Technical Monitoring providing systems administration staff
with relevant data and management tools with respect to the performance of
Prima Platform.
Prima Platform 4.0 is a J2EE 1.3 application running on IBM Websphere 5.1, BEA
Weblogic Platform 8.0, JBoss 3.2.3 on Windows 2000, Linux, AIX, Solaris and
zOS leveraging IBM DB2 UDB V8 and Oracle 9i.
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