NRW

The Bottom Line

"The main goal of our department is to align methods and tools in software engineering in such a way as to get the maximum benefit of tools in terms of time-to-market. With the ArcStyler, we are happy to have found a tool that offers such benefits for a num ber of reasons. These comprise the flexibility, the architectural approach and the comprehensive code generation features."

Wolfgang Fleischer, project manager and IT architect at the RZF.

Customer

RZF Rechenzentrum der Finanzverwaltungen des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (Central IT Services Division RZF of the Financial Administration of the German state of North Rhine Westphalia)

Industry

Government

Application

Comprehensive IT management and support of all training and education facilities of the Financial Administration in the state of North Rhine Westphalia

Software

ArcStyler, Rational Rose, JBuilder, Oracle, Borland Application Server

Business benefits

Short time-to-market of new application, easy integration of legacy systems to protect previous investments, automated MDA-enabling of existing systems (harvesting), implementation of Internet-centric component-based technologies, implementation and propagation of future-safe, completely model-driven cross-organizational architectural style

Project

The Central IT Services Division RZF, one of the major IT organizations of the German federal governments, is a modern IT services body responsible for the IT support of more than 34,000 users in the Financial Administration of the German state of North Rhine Westphalia. The RZF believes that Model Driven Architecture as standardized by the OMG has the potential to dramatically reduce the time-to-market of new applications and can resolve the EAI problem at the root. RZF chose ArcStyler because this development platform enables the implementation of highly complex applications in EJB/J2EE environments.

The objective of the RZF project is the comprehensive IT management and support of all training and education facilities of the Financial Administration in the state of North Rhine Westphalia. The first RZF projects are scheduled for release in fall 2002.