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SOA Consortium and CIO
Magazine Announce
Winners of SOA Case
Study Competition
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Congratulations
Overall Winner: Synovus Financial
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"I would like to congratulate Synovus Financial and all of the vertical industry winners on their fantastic achievements with Service Oriented Architecture. The SOA Consortium has a vision of SOA as a business strategy that provides real ROI, and our winners have certainly provided real-world proof across many industries. The winners of this contest have made the case that SOA delivers value. Hopefully other organizations will be inspired by our winners' success to look at how SOA can deliver that value to their own organizations."
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- Richard Mark Soley,
Executive Director, SOA Consortium |
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The
SOA Consortium™ and
CIO magazine are proud
to announce the winners
of the Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) Case
Study Competition. The
overall winner is Synovus Financial, with
special recognition
going to organizations
in the Insurance,
Transportation,
Government, Technology
and Healthcare
Industries. All of the
winners have
successfully delivered
business or mission
value using an SOA
approach.
The
goal of the SOA Case
Study Competition was to
highlight business
success stories and
lessons learned to
provide proof points and
insights for other
organizations
considering or pursuing
SOA adoption. To qualify
for the contest, the SOA
project must have been
completed with
demonstrated business
results.
Overall
Winner:
Synovus
Financial
Financial services
company Synovus provides
commercial and retail
banking, as well as
investment services, to
35 banks throughout the
southeast U.S. Synovus
partnered with two other
organizations to deliver
a new Secure Value
Payment (SVP) Program
using SOA techniques.
Cross-industry
collaboration and early
cooperation between
business and IT led to a
million-dollar cost
savings to bring the
project in on budget.
The program has been
successfully rolled out
to 37 financial
institutions with more
on the way.
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"The SOA case study submissions displayed an impressive range of real business value. It was gratifying to see the ways in which SOA is evolving, and I look forward to additional impressive results in the future."
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- Abbie
Lundberg,
Editor in Chief, CIO magazine
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In
addition to recognizing
the overall winner,
special recognition was
given to the following:
Special
Recognition in
Insurance:
Penn
National Insurance
Penn National
Insurance is a regional
property and casualty
insurance carrier. Penn
National responded to
increased competition
and dissatisfied
independent insurance
agents by implementing
predictive analytics to
enhance pricing
precision, and by
replacing existing
systems to streamline
processing. Within two
months of rollout to
independent agents in
Maryland, the company
saw a 65% increase in
new business quotes from
those agents.
Special
Recognition in
Transportation:
Con-way,
Inc - SOA and EDA
Evolution
Con-way is a
$4.7 billion freight
transportation and
logistics services
company headquartered in
San Mateo, Calif.
Con-way wanted to
transform their business
applications, moving
from rigid and siloed
legacy systems to a
highly flexible and
agile event-driven
Service-Oriented
architecture. Some
business benefits of
their new SOA-based
systems include the
ability to deliver
projects to the business
3-4 times faster than
with the previous
system, greatly reduced
time at border crossings
for their fleet,
automation of processes
has saved 500 man-hours
daily, while Sales and
Finance personnel now
have real-time decision
support.
Special
Recognition in
Government:
US
Department of Defense,
AT&L
The US
Department of Defense (DoD)
Acquisition, Technology,
and Logistics (AT&L)
organization has
responsibility for
management and oversight
of Major Defense
Acquisition Programs (MDAPs).
AT&L needed to
achieve timely access to
accurate, authoritative,
and reliable information
supporting acquisition
oversight,
accountability, and
decision making
throughout DoD. They
especially needed to
eliminate poor
information visibility,
and manual report
creation. The SOA
infrastructure and
related governance
processes enabled
authoritative,
information-supporting,
acquisition decision
making on $103B in total
program value.
Special Recognition in
Technology:
SunGard
Financial Systems
SunGard
Financial Systems
delivers software and
processing solutions to
the Financial Services
industry. The goal with
SunGard's SOA project
(called Common Services
Architecture or CSA) was
to expose components and
business process logic
and make it easier to
consume them. CSA allows
SunGard business
segments to catalog
their software assets,
produce reusable
components and consume
them in composite
solutions. CSA
establishes standards
and fosters reuse
through the sharing of
design principles across
products, and sharing of
utilities and business
services. They have
achieved a higher volume
of solutions delivered,
greater efficiencies of
delivering solutions and
compatibility to
integrate with their
customers' SOA
environment, resulting
in higher business
satisfaction.
Special
Recognition in
Healthcare:
Canada
Health Infoway
The Canada
Health Infoway's (Infoway)
mandate was to develop
an architecture to
support an Interoperable
Electronic Health Record
(iEHR). This record is
designed to facilitate
the sharing of data
across the continuum of
care, across health care
delivery organizations
and across geographies.
The architecture was
developed with a few key
principles in mind from
agility to support the
evolving nature of
healthcare delivery, to
hard financial benefits.
The architecture has
been adopted by all of
the jurisdictions in
Canada. An independent
study of the
cost/benefits of the
HIAL and iEHR was done
for Infoway by Booz
Allen Hamilton. They
estimated total cost of
IT enabling the
healthcare system to be
$9.9B. The annual
benefits (savings or
cost avoidance in
healthcare services) are
estimated at $6.1B and
to be $82.4B over 20
years.
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