The POV is more than just an exercise in what can be done using the Oracle information and application integration products. There was a specific technical reason behind each product choice. The Oracle products used were chosen because they provide the following technological benefits:
Incremental migration of transaction processing off the legacy system — We are moving one transaction processing stream from the mainframe, that is adding a new member maintenance. The Oracle BPEL Designer and JDeveloper is used to model and design the new member maintenance process.
A major re-engineering effort with minimal effort — The batch system is being replaced with new Oracle technology, but we are not incurring the risk and cost associated with rewriting the core business logic. The Oracle SOA Adapters will allow us to leverage mainframe applications and data.
Complete new process and way of processing — Instead of running sequential batch jobs on the mainframe, the new process is...