BEA Systems Inc., recently acquired by Oracle Corp., announced that Procter & Gamble had implemented a service-oriented architecture (SOA) running on BEA technologies.
At the front end is a new on-line workspace, designed to act as a portal to the company’s information and knowledge. Initially rolled out to some 2000 P&G users, the workspace is intended at term (2010) to provide decision-support information to more than 30000 users.
At the back end, BEA AquaLogic systems provide the foundation for P&G’s new service-oriented architecture: data sourcing and serving, integration and messaging, and a security layer to protect confidential and sensitive information.
Our vision is a fundamental transformation of the way we operate: using innovative technologies to help us work smarter, faster and more efficiently. BEA is an important contributor to that vision.
Filippo Passerini, CIO and Global Services Officer, Procter & Gamble.
Computerweekly reports that Procter & Gamble expect the new BEA platform to enable them to significantly leverage existing IT application investment through increased code re-use.
The BEA SOA platform allows P&G to integrate existing business applications, from SAP to custom-built tools in J2E and .net. Applications and code modules are catalogued and then made available as services through the portal to enable re-use by other parts of the business.
Terry McFadden, P&G’s associate director for enterprise architecture, said in the initial rollout to the 2000 pilot users, the company had achieved up to 25% re-use of internally developed code. P&G expects at term to be able to re-use up to half of its internally developed application code as it rolls out SOA across its business.
We have a myriad of businesses and business units in the organisation, but many require the same information and by implementing an SOA it means we can develop functionality with re-use in mind to cut application development costs.
Terry McFadden, Associate Director for Enterprise Architecture, Procter & Gamble.
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