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CORBA in Action Borland Customer Success with CORBA

CORBA in Action Borland Customer Success with CORBA. CORBA in Telecommunications. Proven Reliable Stable Scalable Ideal for mission-critical, highly distributed systems. CORBA is about Customers. AsiaInfo. Founded in 1993

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CORBA in Action Borland Customer Success with CORBA

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  1. CORBA in ActionBorland Customer Success with CORBA

  2. CORBA in Telecommunications • Proven • Reliable • Stable • Scalable Ideal for mission-critical, highly distributed systems

  3. CORBA is about Customers

  4. AsiaInfo • Founded in 1993 • Designed and built China’s Internet backbone networks for China’s major telecommunications providers • Provides infrastructure solutions, software products and services for businesses (B2B)

  5. Telecom in China • Nearly 60 million Internet users • Over 200 million mobile phone users • Over 200 million traditional fixed-line phone users

  6. AsiaInfo – Business Challenges • Increased competition • Fast-growing customer base • Evolving telecommunications technology • Broadband, VPN, IP networks…

  7. AsiaInfo – Meeting Customer Needs • Developed AsiaInfo Online Billing System (AIOBS) • Customer management and billing functions • Built on Borland Enterprise Server, VisiBroker Edition

  8. AsiaInfo – CORBA Advantages • ‘Unlimited’ scalability • Integrated business modules via IDL • Real-time transactions • Load balancing • Fail over and fault tolerance

  9. AsiaInfo – Results “AIOBS has raised the management capabilities and competitive edge of carriers to a new level and made our clients more confident to face the rapidly growing communications industry.” • Support for 10 million-plus users (30 million in most recent benchmark tests)

  10. CORBA in Financial Services • Proven • Reliable • Stable • Scalable Ideal for mission-critical, highlydistributed systems

  11. London Bridge • Founded in 1987 • Global supplier of business software solutions • Vectus – business process management solution built on CORBA (Borland Enterprise Server, VisiBroker Edition) • “Very reliable and gives us the ability to scale systems to an impressive size”

  12. CRM Project at More Th>n • More Th>n, direct-to-consumer arm of Royal & SunAlliance • Requirements: • Single view of customers • Decision support • Process automation

  13. More Th>n – Challenges • Geographically disparate organization • Numerous legacy systems • Different platforms in use • Multi-channel delivery

  14. More Th>n – Solution • Vectus, running on CORBA (Borland Enterprise Server, VisiBroker Edition) • Resilient, flexible, and scalable • Multi-channel, 5 millions transactions/day

  15. More Th>n – Results “As far as the customer is concerned, a company is one entity… Superior customer service is the result of getting all your interactions right the first time.” • Faster and better customer service • Flexibility to change with business processes

  16. CORBA in Action in a Mixed IT Environment

  17. Today’s Dominant Technologies

  18. .NET J2EE CORBA The ‘Mixed’ IT Environment LAYER PRESENTATION BUSINESS LOGIC DATA TECHNOLOGY • CORBA in the data layer • Resource intensive, complex, higher maintenance • but… Better performance (code is closer to the platform) • J2EE in the business logic layer • Resource intensive, complex, higher maintenance • but… Portability and scalability across multiple platforms • .NET in the presentation layer • No security, no persistence, slower performance • but… Rich front-end and easy development environment

  19. IDC on .NET “There is no argument that Microsoft owns the desktop and that .NET is rapidly becoming the technology of choice for the front-end or presentation layer.” – IDC, June 2003

  20. IDC on J2EE/CORBA “The reasons are obvious: scalability, security and transaction performance are key… and J2EE and CORBA servers deliver these features reliably.” – IDC, June 2003

  21. Borland Solutions • Borland Enterprise Server • AppServer Edition, Team Edition (J2EE) • VisiBroker Edition (CORBA) • VisiNotify, VisiTransact, VisiSecure • Web Edition (JSP/Servlet) • Borland Janeva – NEW • Interoperability between .NET applications and J2EE/CORBA back-end infrastructure

  22. Thank You

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