British American Tobacco Uses SOA For Supply Chain

Filed in archive Products on July 19, 2006

British American Tobacco (BAT) has selected XML web services security firm Vordel for a global supply chain solution, IDM reported.

Vordel announced yesterday that it had been chosen by British American Tobacco to protect and manage BAT's XML technology across its network of data centres. The deal will enable BAT to remotely manage its SOA deployment on a global level. The tobacco giant's products and operations span 180 markets across the world.

Vordel says that following a thorough review of offerings in the marketplace, it was selected as the optimum solution capable of meeting BAT's requirements to protect its enterprise SOA infrastructure. Key decision factors for selecting Vordel included the firm's demonstrable acceleration of XML security primitives, the product's scalability and easy to use centralized policy management control.

Gavin Targonski, Technical Architect for Application Technology Strategy at BAT commented, "With Vordel, BAT has been able to deploy a global SOA security infrastructure that aligns with both our business and technology strategies. The solution is standards based and fully conformant to company best practice for SOA security operations".