English to Chinese Science Computers: Software

The end-user applications use an insurance industry XML schema developed by the nonprofit Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD) standards organization. The XML data is then transformed into the proprietary format required by each legacy back-end application. Basically, this ensures the loose coupling essential to an SOA. “If we acquire another company and we need to validate agents against their distributor support system, it’s simply a matter of creating an adapter from ACORD to the proprietary format required by that system. Everything on top speaks ACORD and doesn’t care what the implementation of the service is behind the scenes,” Gleason says.