Celent believes that the most common objections to insurance innovation often center on regulatory and technical barriers. Comments such as Our lawyers will never let us do that, and Our systems cant handle the new technology needed, are cited as reasons that innovations cannot succeed. The MetLife Wall addressed both of these issues through early involvement from representatives of both the legal and IT areas. Compliance specialists were on the project team from its beginning to address specific issues, such as HIPPA privacy requirements and the visibility of critical information such as Social Security numbers. The leader of the enterprise infrastructure and architecture area pushed his team to remain solution-focused, and to find a way through recurring challenges instead of simply adhering to typical processes. For example, instead of waiting until coding was complete, a test environment was created in parallel with development. Also, because the database used by the application is optimized for small implementations of local storage, the team had to establish the new server environment using a new, unfamiliar configuration.