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Webify this week plans to roll out insurance industry-specific application components and a platform for managing service-oriented business applications.
Webify Fabric 4.0's components give insurance companies a set of prebuilt, service-oriented applications they can deploy separately or use as components of multipart, composite applications that Gartner calls service-oriented business applications (SOBA). Webify Fabric helps users assemble, deliver and manage SOBAs.
Experts say Webify, Seec Systems and Tenfold are a new breed of application providers delivering components instead of monolithic applications.
"Ten years ago these guys would be enterprise application vendors," says Ron Schmelzer, an analyst with ZapThink. "Now they are service-oriented, composite-application vendors. It is noteworthy. It shows where the industry is headed."
Schmelzer says other vendors, including Oracle and SAP, are breaking their application logic into components instead of assembling them into one massive application.
"The days of coming up with new applications and selling multimillion-dollar enterprise applications in monolithic blocks - I think those days are over," Schmelzer says.
So does Webify. The company is focusing its development efforts on creating application components tailored to specific industries. Insurance is the first target industry in what will be a model of pairing Webify Fabric to assemble and manage application components with a set of starter applications.
One insurance application in Webify Fabric 4.0 is the New Business module, which supports risk assessment, underwriting, quote processing and integration with policy-management systems. The Policy Lifecycle module supports rules-driven processing; the Claims Lifecycle module provides claims support, fraud protection and routing; and the Agency and Partner Services module supports integration of services with independent agents and other insurance firms. The modules include prebuilt transformation engines to convert data formats from back-end systems to XML formats.
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