Customer Spotlight

British American Tobacco (BAT) is the world's second largest tobacco group doing business in more than 180 markets with annual revenues over 16 billion dollars. BAT embarked on its SOA roadmap convinced that it could be the catalyst to move BAT's IT away from siloed implementations to an agile, supply-and-demand organization.

Such a transformation would be a tough challenge. For one thing, BAT had more than 1,000 IBM Lotus Domino applications, and many of its developers were more versed in Domino than Web services, .Net, or J2EE.

Business Driver

Continue building applications that automatically take advantage of their RDBMS and Application server changes phased in over 2 years.
Move from Domino to J2EE with minimal resource loss and retraining
Enable BAT to see immediate value and move to SOA over time

Skyway Platform Business Benefits

Platform Independent Delivery: no change to business solutions as infrastructure changes
Model Driven Design: for rapid solution delivery by developers with limited or no Java background
Pragmatic SOA: immediate value and implicit SOA without previous technical knowledge