The Client
A multi-billion dollar Fortune 100 insurance company that provides services in all fifty states and has numerous overseas locations. With a focus on individual life insurance, investments, retirement products, and related services, they increasingly rely on web-based systems for agent and client access services.
The Engagement
Encode was asked to analyze ways in which to optimize performance and minimize the expense of integrating the client's existing custom framework with WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal.
Critical Services Delivered
Encode researched and recommended data caching alternatives. Encode determined that in this case, the best architecture solution was to utilize the client's existing command framework for data caching with elements drawn from IBM WebSphere, such as EJB Dynamic Objects.
- Analyze Infrastructure
- Research on Data-Caching
- Performance and Tuning
- "Best Practices" Mentoring
Technology Used
Software used on this project included IBM Portal Toolkit, which "provides the capabilities to customize, create, test, debug, and deploy individual portlets and Web content..."
IBM WebSphere Application Server and Portal Server are to be used as the project continues.
Project
Business to Business (B2B) Portal
Service
Analyze existing infrastructure and optimize major components while integrating it with IBM WebSphere. Mentor client development team on J2EE infrastructure and WebSphere application architecture "Best Practices".
Software
IBM Portal Toolkit
IBM WebSphere
Application Server
IBM Portal Server
Challenges
Customer had invested heavily in an existing, well-developed, custom command framework and wanted to integrate it with many of the features of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal.
