Case Study: Skandia achieves reduced risk, improved agility and lower costs with Akana

Skandia - Customer Case Study

Skandia Nordic, a long‑standing Swedish insurance and banking firm, had integrated numerous legacy systems with Microsoft BizTalk as part of an SOA strategy, but rapid growth in services exposed gaps in visibility, lifecycle control and security. Manual governance, checklists and a homegrown repository could not scale, so the company sought an automated end‑to‑end SOA governance solution to manage services, SLAs and operational risk.

Skandia selected SOA Software’s Policy Manager and Service Manager, using BizTalk and IIS agents to enforce policies, centralize authorization and provide real‑time monitoring. The deployment delivered automated governance, 24/7 operational visibility and seamless security management, reduced the governance team to three (a 91% headcount reduction), enabled problem detection before customers were affected, improved SLA control and realized estimated annual benefits exceeding $2 million through lower costs, reduced downtime and greater agility.

Skandia

Robert Ekblom

CTO