To stay ahead of the competition, RouteOne develops a strong service-oriented architecture using IBM WebSphere software

To stay ahead of the competition, RouteOne develops a strong service-oriented architecture using IBM WebSphere software.

Published on: 29 Nov 2006

“Using the WebSphere solution, we are able to respond quickly to meet evolving customer require­ments, putting us a step ahead of the competition.” - T.N. Subramaniam, Chief Architect &Director of Technology, RouteOne

Customer: RouteOne, LLC
Deployment Country: United States
Industry: Automotive, Banking
Solution: Enabling Business Flexibility, Openness, Service Oriented Architecture, Small & Medium Business, Transforming IT

Overview - IBM SOA Solutions in Automotive and Banking Industries

RouteOne offers a revolutionary real-time, Web-based system that enables automobile dealers to manage the credit application process from multiple financial sources. The RouteOne system integrates with numerous participating financing companies, and it aggregates all financing sources into a single point for auto dealers.

Business need: RouteOne was looking to upgrade its application platform to an open-standards based architecture so that it could support more users and integrate with diverse partners. In addition, the company wanted to differentiate its system within the automotive marketplace by implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and leveraging Web services to build a more flexible system that could respond quickly to users’ changing needs.

Solution: RouteOne built a robust SOA for its credit application management system using IBM WebSphere® and IBM DataPower® software.

Benefits: • Provides a robust SOA infrastructure to deliver an open, integrated, Web-acces­sible solution for customers • Enables RouteOne to reuse services, build business rules and adopt best prac­tices to bring services to market more quickly than the competition • Offers flexibility to meet evolving customer requirements and support more users • Able to scale to a very large number of concurrent users

Case Study - IBM SOA Solutions in Automotive and Banking Industries

Overview

RouteOne
Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA
www.routeone.com

Industries

• Automotive
• Banking

Products

• IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, Version 5.1
• IBM WebSphere MQ, Version 5.3

Quote

“Using the WebSphere solution, we are able to respond quickly to meet evolving customer requirements, putting us a step ahead of the competition.”

—T.N. Subramaniam, Chief Architect & Director of Technology, RouteOne

Background - IBM SOA Solutions in Automotive and Banking Industries

RouteOne offers a revolutionary real-time, Web-based system that enables automobile dealers to manage the credit application process from multiple financial sources. The RouteOne system integrates with numerous participating financing companies, and it aggregates all financing sources into a single point for auto dealers.

Challenge - IBM SOA Solutions in Automotive and Banking Industries

With the vision of becoming the credit application management system of choice for auto dealers, RouteOne was looking to upgrade its application platform to an open-standards based architecture so that it could support more users and integrate with diverse partners. In addition, the company wanted to differentiate its system within the automotive marketplace by implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and leveraging Web services to build a more flexible system that could respond quickly to users’ changing needs.

Solution - IBM SOA Solutions in Automotive and Banking Industries

RouteOne built a robust SOA for its credit application management system using IBM WebSphere® and IBM DataPower® software. The company deployed IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, Version 5.1 software as the primary application platform for the environment. The WebSphere Application Server software offers Web application services, performs capacity management and supports server clustering. IBM WebSphere MQ, Version 5.3 software supports all data transfer and guarantees receipt of business partner transac­tions, mostly between the dealers and financing companies. The IBM DataPower software acts as the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and provides the ESB function­alities of transformation, routing and security.

Benefits - IBM SOA Solutions in Automotive and Banking Industries

• Provides a robust SOA infrastructure to deliver an open, integrated, Web-accessible solution for customers

• Enables RouteOne to reuse services, build business rules and adopt best practices to bring services to market more quickly than the competition
• Offers flexibility to meet evolving customer requirements and support more users
• Able to scale to a very large number of concurrent users

Products and Services Used - IBM SOA Solutions in Automotive and Banking Industries

IBM products and services that were used in this case study.

- Software: WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
- Services: GBS SOA Implementation Services, IBM Integrated Technology Services

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