Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming a significant design paradigm for more and more businesses including the insurance industry.

SOA promises, among other things, greater responsiveness, flexibility and cost reduction. Nonetheless, for most insurance companies — small or large — the implementation of SOA will be both a technical and conceptual shift in paradigm and thus a challenge.

TIA’s focus is to ensure that the full benefits of SOA are available to our customers. This is achieved by building a layer of services on top of the existing TIA business logic. By exposing TIA standard services and providing auto-generation capabilities for the customer-specific services in this layer we achieve the valued combination of a standard solution which can easily be customized.

The main impact for business users is that using key SOA principles can quickly and easily integrate TIA with other applications and provide support for the processes that evolve with the business.