Infosys Technologies has announced that it assisted British Energy Power & Energy Trading (BEPET) to adopt a Process Driven Architecture (PDA) [a more process centric view of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)] approach to increase efficiencies by aligning business processes with its IT infrastructure.

BEPET decided to align business processes with IT through SOA, to keep pace with the UK energy industry that has evolved significantly in recent years, making the market more complex and challenging. The business rationale was to consolidate existing IT assets and look at new areas of commodities, businesses and services. BEPET engaged Infosys to define an Enterprise Architecture framework that leveraged and put into practice the principles of SOA.

Jeremy Lock, manager, IT, BEPET, said, "We have been extremely impressed by the Infosys team’s innovative approach and expertise in defining a framework and methodology that will guide us towards this SOA-based business model. This will increase the flexibility and reliability of our IT infrastructure and enable us to manage our business growth effectively while continuing to deliver excellent customer service."