london underground. lu, soa and oba marc holmes architect developer and platform evangelism...
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Underground Statistics13 lines, over 408km of track, 275 Stations, 16,000 staff, 971 Million passenger Journeys a year, recently completed record numbers of journeys in one day of 4 million.
London Underground IM Solutions DevelopmentProduce, Maintain and Support Software for Operational Railway. 60+ applications in production.Covering areas like; Crew Management, Real-Time Train Movements, Engineering Planning, Contract and Asset Management.
Portfolio StructureAEP (Assets/Engineering/PPP Contracts)MI (Management Information)Call Centers & SchedulingRTI (Real Time Information) Portfolio
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Enterprise FrameworkArchitectural building blocks to application development
Lifecycle ToolsVS Team Suite, Expression Blend, IBM Rational Suite
SOALarge Investment in ServicesMessaging (Middleware)
SharePoint 2003 Portal - HeartBeat PublisherMultiple apps, Single point of entry, familiar interfaceEach app unique, minimal Interaction between appsLarge maintenance costs
Summary
Great SOA ImplementationRapid Application Development
Appropriate TechnologiesWPF – Geographic Data VisualisationExcel – Data InteractionMOSS – KPI and Dashboarding
Case study:http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000000061