22 WebSphere Business Integrator Server Foundation V5.1 Handbook
3.1 Scenario 1: Service composition
An insurance company has a significant legacy estate comprising stovepipe
applications, each of which supports a different insurance product. This IT
environment presents a number of issues.
Highly skilled staff is required
Company staff uses separate applications to work with each product and
requires training in each of them. Some of the applications have highly
specialized interfaces which require experienced staff to be allocated solely to
their support.
The company wishes to begin to consolidate these into a single application
offering a simple user interface. This will free up the experienced staff for
business development.
Product development ...