Reverside IBM Enterprise Modernisation Capability

Reverside IBM Enterprise

Modernisation Capability

• Established 2006; Head Office in South Africa

• High CSR Agenda - Black Economic Empowerment Level 1 contributor

• Over 120 consultants

• Over 300 person years of Global IT experience

• Delivery centres in India and South Africa

• 21 active customers spread over South Africa, Europe and USA

• Partner for IBM & Oracle

Reverside Brief Profile

April 2010 2Reverside Restricted

Reverside South Africa

Reverside Europe

Reverside India

Reverside IBM Advanced Business Partner

• Feb 2010 Reverside was upgraded to Advanced Business Partner Status

• Reverside IBM solution offerings– Rational

– WebSphere

– MQ, Message Broker

– Cognos

– Portal Solutions

April 2010 Reverside Restricted 3

Reverside IBM Certifications

Certificate* Number of People*

IBM Rational HATS – Sales 13

IBM Rational HATS – Technical 4

IBM WebSphere – Sales 2

IBM WebSphere – Technical 7

IBM Lotus – Sales 2

IBM Cognos 11


* As of Feb 2010

• HATS: Host Access Transformation Services

• Rules-based Host-to-Web transformation engine, that provides customised access to one or more host applications

• Dynamically creates new Web HTML interfaces

• Capability to quickly and easily generate a Web Service (SOA) from a host application

• HATS applications are packaged in standard J2EE formats

• HATS application is packaged as a J2EE Enterprise archive (.ear) file for deployment into IBM WebSphere Application Server

• HATS application is packaged as a Web archive (.war) file for deployment into IBM WebSphere Portal Server

Enterprise Modernisation - HATS


• Transforms one or more host applications and presents Web pages/services (SOA) to an end user, through an HATS Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) project

• HATS EJB project provides access to host interactions, which are encapsulated in Integration Objects

• The Integration Objects provide host data to a calling application, which can be another HATS application or a user-written Java program

• A HATS EJB project separates the collection of the host data from its presentation

HATS - Capability



HATS – Integration Typical Schematics


HATS – As-Is To-Be

• Preserves your investment by

• extending you existing application through the Web

• provide web services (SOA) with limited risk and expense

• providing quick return on your investment

• Transforms your legacy/heritage applications to HTML with no changes to source code

• Improve navigation and user experience of your application

• Reduces end user training costs

• Reduces costs associated with erroneous entries

HATS – Value Proposition

All these, without touching your stable, reliable, time tested application


Reverside Methodology

•Single sizable functionality/process

•1-2 weeks elapse time

•Feasibility showcase

•Onsite

Proof of concept

•POC success evaluation

•Project go/no go decision

•Onsite

Decide•Agree Scope

•Agree Plan

•Agree Bill of Material

•Agree Costs

•Onsite

Agree

•Expand Plan

•Design/Detailed Design

•Order H/W & S/W

•Code Build & Test

•Onsite + Offshore

Build•Train Users

•Create service desk

•Maintain and manage

•Onsite + Offshore

Maintain


Reverside IBM Customers


Business

• The company is a full service insurance business with different products and offerings in life, non-life insurance and London markets

• The application in scope manages and maintains both life and non-life insurance policies for High Net Worth individuals

Challenges

• The UK operations had built an independent web front end for claims processing and policy administration, accessing policy data sitting on applications running on AS400 back end

• Business was struggling to manage duplicate transactions, keep and maintain log files and collate transaction details

Our Solution

•Reverside delivered a solution whereby a XML message is received from the front end via MQ, utilizing business specific Java code & Host Publisher (HATS) Integration Objects to integrate the data received from AS400.

•A XML response is passed to the MQ channel for the front end

• The incoming and outgoing message is stored in a DB2 container

•A separate error and transaction logging system was developed to aid application support

Case Study – A large insurance company


This project has a high profile across the Group and it was imperative that it is delivered within agreed requirements. The feedback I have received demonstrates how you leveraged your collective talents and strong relationships to

deliver - working across time zones and countries to make it happen – COO UK

WE MAKE DREAMS HAPPEN!

contact details:

Rajib GuptaReverside EuropeBusiness & Technology Centre, Bessemer Drive, Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 2DX

: +44 (0)1438 791 008 / 08450 780 108

: +44 (0)7810 000 612

: [email protected]

: www.reverside.co.uk

rêver (french): {v} dream


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