Standard Life of the U.K. is a 176-year-old company that is vaulting itself into the 21st century by creating an advanced e-business infrastructure that will provide significant benefits to its customers, resellers (Independent Financial Advisers-IFAs), and itself. This began several years ago, when Standard Life decided to enhance its existing infrastructure and systems to enable new sets of applications (of which many are e-business applications) and provide lower costs (which could then be passed on to the IFAs and customers). Standard Life then spent almost two years researching the optimal architecture and supplier for this infrastructure. The key decision was to design a hub-and-spoke, standards-based (XML and Java) approach, which would be built on IBM MQSeries, WebSphere, and VisualAge for Java.
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