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	Traditional insurance companies facing increasing threats from new providers.
	Software companies converting themselves into business service providers.
	Popularity of Component-Based Development, to support Mass Customization..

insurance business process

[source: OMG 1997]

insurance system architecture

insurance systems architecture

[source OMG 1997]

sources and links

vendors

consortia

industry pundits

IBM Insurance Application Architecture

Microsoft Biztalk includes some insurance models, including iLingo

Andersen Consulting - Eagle - generic patterns on their website, industry-specific models exist somewhere, but I haven't tracked them down

MTW: Making Technology Work

Sherwood - Amarta - described in book by Jackson & Twaddle

OMG Insurance Working Party - some preliminary work - apparently nothing since summer 1997

OAG - not much on insurance yet

Managing Change

Meta Group

Michael Jackson & Graham Twaddle

Business Process Implementation: Building Workflow Systems

Addison-Wesley 1997

Describes a method for designing workflow.

The examples and architecture are taken from the insurance industry. Twaddle is (or was) the technical director of Sherwood, which specializes in computer systems for the insurance industry.

Michael Jackson is a well-known writer on software requirements and design methods.

Solid but uninspired. Useful reference.

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