Local software company MIP is building service-orientated architecture (SOA) into its WarpSpeed Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment.
The company aims to speed up development, improve code consistency across its range of applications, and provide faster service delivery to customers across its range of healthcare, employee benefits and life assurance management systems.
According to MIP, WarpSpeed is based on Progress Software, which provides application infrastructure software for the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications, and it also supports SOA deployments.
Patrick O'Reilly, group Internet business manager at MIP, says: "Our software development teams are comfortable in the proven WarpSpeed environment after using it for the past few years, so we didn't want to change the interface they have become accustomed to."
O'Reilly adds: "Progress Software's SOA support has allowed us to bring SOA into the development environment through our familiar interface, without disrupting our developmental team, essentially giving the same functionality they are accustomed to and more, while delivering a raft of additional business benefits."
WarpSpeed's SOA foundation means developers, regardless of the solutions they programme, from healthcare to life assurance and employee benefits, can draw on functionality grouped around common business processes and presented as services.
SOA will benefit MIP's developers and deployment teams when they roll out updates or changes to the various applications.
"It helps us to ensure we roll out error-free code and ensures users consistently get the latest software," says O'Reilly. "That's a benefit from a software management perspective and it means we can quickly keep our customers up-to-date in industries currently characterised by change."
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