Born into the chaos of a large implementation effort, Israel-based Opal Future Technologies took the reins of eight struggling pension funds -- each with its own unique IT platform -- and threaded them together into one.
Born into the chaos of a large implementation effort, Israel-based Opal Future Technologies took the reins of eight struggling pension funds -- each with its own unique IT platform -- and threaded them together into one.
New Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Software Helps
Opal Future Technologies Integrate Proprietary Technology Into WebSphere Portal
How one company used cross-platform .NET to solve its
.NET/Java EE interoperability challenges 
Like others before it, Opal Future Technology considered a rewrite of its .NET applications when the IT infrastructure provider was charged by the Israeli government to consolidate eight government pension funds into a single unified system. In this case, however, Opal ultimately decided to use integration software from IBM and Mainsoft to consolidate a $20-billion pension fund serving 3 million participants. 
The happy user is Opal Financial Group, a pension fund and institutional fund manager. It uses IBM WebSphere Portal software on System Z or System P running AIX to support .NET-developed applications. The economics enticement is the ability to support wide diversity for development (and to use all the developer skills available), while consolidating and unifying on the operations side — which usually means 70 percent or more of the IT budget. 
Mainsoft's solution saved time for Opal Future Technologies, a Herzelia, Israel-based IT company that provides support for the pension fund company. Opal used Mainsoft's solution to largely avoid rewriting code developed on the .NET platform for the implementation. 
