SOA Roadmap Gives Benefits Company Clear Picture of Its Service-Oriented Project

Business and Technology Need The Unum Group is an employee benefits company, headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that offers group disability, life, and long term care insurance, and voluntary benefits programs for business customers of all sizes. Unum offers more than 2,000 products and programs supported by more than 60 systems inherited from earlier mergers or acquisitions. Unum found it difficult to appeal to small businesses because too many Unum products and services were isolated within various vertical groups of the company. To solve this problem, Unum launched an initiative to link all of its products and services, using an enterprisewide Service Oriented Architecture... [read full story]