Service Data Objects

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Service Data Objects
Insurance Industry Architecture Presentation

• Business Objects With Smarts For The Insurance
  Industry

Brandon Werner
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Service Oriented Architecture
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Benefits To Offering Insurance Solutions As A
Service

• Agency Management Software (AMS)
• Custom Build Agent Websites and Workflows
• Mobile Devices Internet Appliances
• Third Party Insurance Websites (eSurance)
• Competitive Rating Websites
• Point Of Sale Partners
• General Agents
• Third Party Payment Systems

• New Application Mash-Ups For Partners
• Strategically Differentiated Services
• Agent Reporting
• Bulk Data Importing Exporting From Partners

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• Offering Insurance Solutions As A Service

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• Best Approach Partner Service Mash-Ups

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• Service Mash-Ups

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Three Primary Barriers To Implementing Services
in a Domain Architecture

• Business Logic Is In UI or Code
• Business Objects Arent Real Business Objects
  Pattern
• Transfer Objects Pattern Maintain State and Have
  Structure

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• Service Mash-Ups

Get Claims Information For Policy

• Do we use BPM?
• Do we use process modeling and workflows?
• Do we orchestrate our existing domain objects?

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• Offering Software As A Service (SAS) Through The
  Typical Orchestration Pattern (TIBCO/IBM)

Quote Webservice
(its a hack)
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• Partner Service Mash-Ups With Typical
  Orchestration Pattern

Complexity Increases Substantially
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We dont want to develop software this way
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Serivitize Our Existing Business Objects
Make Real Business Objects?
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• Objects are loosely coupled
• Objects data can be discovered at runtime
  through query
• Objects contracts are data based, no types or
  tightly binding interfaces
• Object is protected from contract and interface
  changes in system
• Objects can be placed anywhere - maximum reuse
• Object can modify its types and data structure
  during runtime
• Object has no restriction on the data it can
  share
• Object is decoupled from the format and source
  the data came from
• Object automatically can roll back to the
  previous data state or act on changes

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What is this box?
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Database
Webservice(XML)
Other Object
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The power of dynamic data objects
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What is this box?
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Service Data Objects

• Developed by IBM, BEA and others
• You use it every day in Eclipse and RSA. Part of
  the EMF.
• Has DMS for XML, Databases, CSV and many others
• Has Built In Change Control
• Has Dynamic Structure That Can Expand And
  Subtract At Runtime
• Separated From The Data Its Loaded From
• Queried Through X-Path and other tools
• Serializable
• Can Be Transformed In To Anything

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SDO Framework For The Insurance Industry