The SOA Platform Under the Stream™ Solution
The StoneRiver Insurance Integration Platform (IIP) is the backbone of the new Stream all-lines insurance administration solution set. It’s an advanced Java-based, service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform with an embedded enterprise service bus, business process management (BPM) engine, and rules engine. Composed of a carefully crafted set of open source and commercial components combined with proprietary software, the IIP is a unified, comprehensive platform for insurance. There is an end-to-end set of cohesive frameworks to create a fully SOA-driven application with five core frameworks:
• User interface
• Composite services
• Business services
• Event / BPM / Rules
• Business intelligence
The IIP also includes an integrated configuration editor / implementation workbench.
Analyst Feedback on the IIP
“Our research continues to prove that a responsive and dynamic business model requires an SOA-driven technology platform. This platform is essential to support the integration of all applications, business services, tools, and data stores. This approach will enable speed to market, agility and flexibility for the business,” says Deb Smallwood, Founder of SMA Strategy Meets Action. “StoneRiver’s Stream solutions are built on a modern technology platform, which is one of the first true SOA platforms available in the insurance marketplace.”
Driving Integration, Composite Applications, and Business Process Automation
IIP provides three key feature sets:
| • | Integration tools and services with transformation and connection capabilities, security for exposed services, and more |
| • | Composite application framework, including a rich composite services framework that composes functional services for the user interface, a Flex-based user interface framework pre-built to work with the composite services framework, and services for user interaction that authenticate and authorize |
| • | Business process automation and complex event processing, including event-driven business intelligence framework, the ability to associate rules to events and invoke any number of BPM flows, and much more. |
Leaner, Faster, Smarter
StoneRiver needed a practical platform that could integrate markedly different systems into a comprehensive suite with a single user interface and a common set of shared services. Accomplishing this required all the capabilities listed above. Key benefits of IIP include:
| • | Speed from easier integration and greater reuse and flexibility inherent in the SOA-enabled insurance administration platform |
| • | Cost-effectiveness and high performance from leveraging existing back-end systems |
| • | Flexibility from customizable business process capabilities with graphical BPM flow design |
| • | Easier, more cost-effective administration implementations with a fully integrated configuration editor targeted to business analysts |
