The document discusses Oracle Fusion Middleware and its use at Irish Life Investment Managers (ILIM). It describes ILIM's drivers for adopting a service-oriented architecture including operational excellence, integration needs, and shared services. It outlines ILIM's use of Oracle Fusion Middleware to create a shared enterprise service bus infrastructure across divisions to enable integration and shared services. Specific divisional use cases integrating applications and providing shared services are also summarized.

1. Oracle Fusion Middleware
In Irish Life Investment Managers
Arnaud BENJACAR
Integration Architect, ILIM
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2. Agenda
• About ILIM
• Drivers for SOA
• Oracle Fusion Middleware
• Enterprise Service Bus & Benefits
• Shared Enterprise Service Bus Infrastructure
• Divisional Use Cases
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3. 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
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4. Drivers
Operational Service Excellence
• Process mapping, Execution, Measurement & Improvement
• Shorter lead times for process and software changes
• Service based internal focus
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
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5. Oracle Fusion Middleware
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6. 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 production
1 division in POC
1 division investigating
Hub to be hosted by SOA centre
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7. Enterprise Service Bus
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8. Enterprise Service Bus
Service
Service
Service Service
Service Service
Enterprise Service Bus
Service Service
Service Service Service
Service
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9. Typical Usage
ESB as an integration platform
Where 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 provider
Where a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been adopted,
services may be shared and used across the whole organization and
consumed by multiple systems.
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10. Benefits
• 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
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11. Shared Bus Infrastructure
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12. Shared Bus Infrastructure
ILIM CB RETAIL/BANK?
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
• 2007 – ILIM SOA Strategy
• 2009 - Shared Bus Infrastructure Available
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13. Shared Bus Infrastructure
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14. Shared Bus Infrastructure
• 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
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15. Divisional Use Cases
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16. Irish Life Investment Managers
INTEGRATION PLATFORM
&
SHARED SERVICE PROVIDER
• Front Office to Back Office integration
• Bespoke client applications
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
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17. Charles River
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18. Assist
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19. Corporate Business
INTEGRATION PLATFORM
• Claims Management to multiple LOB systems and
Payment Processing system
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
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20. CBIT – ClaimVantage
Cmds
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Doc
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21. 2009 Oracle Fusion Middleware Architects of the Year
David JONES Arnaud BENJACAR Gerard HANIFAN
Head Architect Integration Architect UI & 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.
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22. Thank You!
&
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