ecenter solutions has centralized much of the technical work required for Helvetia Patria to get its envisioned implementation up and running. Ecenter solutions brought developers from the different subsidiaries together for six to nine months so they could be trained to work on the new SOA platform. Not only did many of the developers come from different cultural backgrounds and speak different languages, but they also had different approaches to developing applications as well. Bringing them together helped the team make sure that all were speaking the same technical language — the language of SOA. After the developers returned to their home bases, they were in a better position to focus on the development needs of their particular businesses.