In a commercial end user environment, object technology has been applied to many important applications that produce commercial benefits. Its examples include the world's largest Fidelity investment company, which makes its own fund management workstation a support multi-source information in approximately five years ago (this for the fund management business is Off is important.
The lower constructs they choose are an implementation of a CORBA standard object request agency. By using CBRBA, Fidelity Investment Companies can customize the collection and analyze the environment according to the needs of the demand for separate fund managers. Some readers in this article may have invested a price securities supported by CORBA support. Large Banking agencies Wells Fargo also uses object technology in the application to form a competitive advantage. Its examples have, five months, the financial treatment system for development, stereotypes, and configurations are implemented based on object technology and CORBA. In such systems, they integrate the framework component environment for running the IBM operating system to support the online transaction terminal.
In another application of Wells Fargo, they integrate different kinds of systems to support system management across large companies. System management is one of the challenging and necessary applications established by the client server, because the operation and management of information technology is no longer concentrated, but there is still a need to cross multiple autonomous departments and users. The desktop is collaborative. Wells Fargo uses the advantages of object technology to achieve such distributed system management capabilities, and greatly reduce their own costs, reducing the response capability of system support challenges.
Another vivid example of the object technology is achieved by a large insurance company. USAA has a car insurance claim system, customer service agent can use it through a telephone receiving a report of the claim. In addition to automotive insurance, USAA has a large number of related product lines (including life insurance and lending capabilities). By using objects to integrate your own information technology together, USAA can provide customer service agents with information on all product lines of USAA. If a customer reports a car damage claim, the car has been assessing and needs to be replaced, and the customer service agent can handle the insurance claim and provide a new car loan for the transportation of the vehicle. In addition, customer service agents also have information about the customer, such as age, child, can provide more insurance coverage when this insurance claim phone is available. With these enhanced capabilities (essentially restructuring your own customer service process), USAA can get 30% of income growth on existing customers, and this is only available to customers who call USAA for car claims. Additional services are obtained.
In the public sector, object technology has also been widely applied and has a significant advantage. Several examples are implemented by Data Interchange and Synergistic Collateral Usage Study and DISCUS projects. This project and its academic courses are described in the Book of Essential Corba [Mowbray 1995]. The front academic course is to discuss the use of object techniques to repeat the energy of design information. Once you have established and use IDL to specify the software interface, let the contractor (Contractors) and commercial vendors support interoperability interfaces are relatively cheap. This ability is defined before the Internet Revolution. When it becomes suitable for integrated Internet capabilities, they can integrate new methods to view data through the Internet browser. The existing traditional integration that then implemented can be used to view data extraction information on the Internet browser.
Another case study of authors implemented a group of information access services, which recorded in the book of Inside Corba [Mowbray 1997c]. In this application, a fact is studied, that is, the government has implemented multiple capabilities, and end users require these systems to interact and support extension access to information resources. In order to solve the problem of user needs, the author guides us to study existing systems, focus on software interfaces supported by various technical support. By studying the details of the traditional system interface, you can explain the new object-oriented design, which uses a general way to capture existing features across the traditional system. By providing the IDL specification to provide new interface design, other contractors can use it to assist in achieving prototypes and promoting this specification through government standardization processes. Within two years, the concept of interoperability evolves into a software that contains formal testing, determines the consistency between multiple implementations of the specification. Many companies have a chance to understand this result. Since information technology in large enterprises is evolving from desktop and department-level information systems into interoperability, the enterprise architectural layers in most organizations can use distributed object technology (which provides interoperability in ordinary ways) ) Use a general way.
In summary, commercial organizations have achieved many advantages from object technology, and these advantages are directly related to their common competitive advantage. The author's experience in research and development shows that the designed reuse is the most important concept for achieving such results. After the appropriate software interface specification, software developers are relatively easy to learn from the practice and easily implement specifications. Developers should be more difficult to integrate systems without such guidance. In other words, the link to thoroughly transform a new customized interoperability is significantly more difficult than how to interactively operate the developer system, and only need to implement the execution of the capacity. In the process of research and development, the author finds this benefit even in the case of the smallest system (only two or three subsystems only); with the integrated subsystem rises to seven or ten or more, it Advantages also increase.
The system's interoperability can be achieved through object technology, and these advantages have been recognized by systems in the commercial system and public sector.
