For executives within the Insurance industry that need greater business agility than their current IT systems can provide, FSL offers a compelling alternative. Applications delivered with FSL solutions put the power to manage the business back where it belongs - in the hands of the business people.

The capability to offer innovative services are driving insurance providers to seek newer strategies and methods to deploy business tactics including new distribution systems, to apply emerging technologies, and a re-structure and re-engineer traditional business processes.

With predominant portions of the IT professionals working for the maintenance of existing systems, the capacity to respond to new application requirements quickly for products critical to the line of business is always going to be challenged.

Technologies relevant to these include J2EE Application Server platforms, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), the gamut of XML based technologies, and a productivity layer like declarative business logic technologies that attack the business logic - policy and procedure - requirements within this context.

The FSL solution enables you to deliver the business logic for your enterprise scale, application server based systems using a declarative approach. With FSL, your IT department can change the way a claim's cost is computed as quickly as they can add a database index. Or change the approval process for over-limit transactions just as easily as adding a database table. And know that with each change, the business logic is automatically re-optimized and re-sequenced to ensure correct execution across every business transaction, regardless of source.

The FSL solution complements your strategic investments in application server technology by deploying the functionality, defined by declarative business logic, as Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) that can be naturally integrated into your architectural framework. The declarative business logic can be extended using conventional techniques such as Java event handlers, inheritance and delegation.