Published on 05-Mar-2012
"In spite of the fact that we had an existing Oracle upper level architecture, the IBM team showed us the strong value proposition of the IBM WebSphere solution." - Project lead, Oracle SOA team, prepaid mobile phone service provider
Customer:
Mobile phone service provider
Industry:
Telecommunications
Deployment country:
United States
Solution:
Service Oriented Architecture
Overview
This company is a large, no-contract, prepaid mobile phone service provider in the United States. A rapidly growing communications enterprise, it has a customer base of more than 19 million subscribers.
Business need:
To avoid fines and minimize liability, the company needed to satisfy an urgent mandate to comply with Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards.
Solution:
The company augmented its existing investment in IBM WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50 software with additional WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50 devices.
Benefits:
The solution delivered rapid time to value for achieving PCI compliance and helped bolster edge security for the company’s SOA and security architecture.
Case Study
This company is a large, no-contract, prepaid mobile phone service provider in the United States. A rapidly growing communications enterprise, it has a customer base of more than 19 million subscribers.
Challenge
Like most organizations that accept payment card transactions, this company needed to ensure that all applications used to store, process or transmit cardholder data comply with a broad set of security requirements. The company needed a solution to satisfy an urgent Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance mandate. Noncompliance would potentially subject the company to surcharges, fines and increased liability in the event of a security breach.
Solution
After IBM provided a two-day on-site demonstration, the company augmented its existing investment in IBM WebSphere® technology with additional WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50 devices. In spite of the fact that the company had a service-oriented architecture (SOA) based on Oracle software, the Oracle SOA project lead decided that the IBM solution offered the quickest route to PCI compliance.
The WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50 software will help bolster edge security for the company’s SOA and security architecture and will also help the company comply with PCI mandates. Further, the WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50 application optimization provides a simple way to accomplish load balancing in the company’s network topology.
The company plans to migrate components of its existing architecture from its Oracle enterprise service bus (ESB) software to the WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50 platform. The company is also making application changes to position the WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50 technology as the core of its infrastructure.
Benefits
• Delivers rapid time to value for achieving PCI compliance
• Bolsters edge security for the SOA and security architecture
• Improves load balancing within the network topology
For more information
To learn more about IBM WebSphere software, contact your IBM sales representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit:
ibm.com/integration
Products and services used
IBM products and services that were used in this case study.
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