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Last live post from Impact. Now listening to Manoj Saxena, Vice President, Industry SOA and Brett MacIntyre, Vice President, Composite Business Services. At Impact IBM announced a number of business services being released. The idea is to create pre-built parts to use in consulting engagements. This is an asset based engagement to lower the risk of service based projects. The services IBM has announced are:

These pre-built solutions are available as part of consulting engagements. These are higher level services that are meant to be SOA accelerators. These are high level business level services. Instead of applications, they are pre-built business services.

This is the relationship of how the services - the IP - runs in the Service Fabric.

There are a lot of questions as to how customers consume these services - are they software? Do customers get the license? Actually, these services are being sold as services - that means they account as service dollars - not software dollars. Customers also have the option to choose a maintenance agreement that will allow them to get the license to change the code. The underlying platform, Fabric, is based on IBM's acquisition of Webify.

Average cost of these pre-build business services will be between $400k - $1 million. There are currently 4 services available:Banking Payments, Telecom Operations, Insurance P&C, and Healthcare Payer. The 4 new ones IBM has announced are Automotive Quote and Home Quote for the Insurance industry and Hi Beam -Member Essentials and Enrollment To File Benefits for the Healthcare –Payer & Provider industry.

This session was full and elicited many questions. While the session is going to be held over, I've got to sign off now and run to the airport. Hope you enjoyed being brought into this conference.

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