Enterprise Services Architecture for Financial Services
Taking SOA to the next level
(Sprache: Englisch)
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become an important topic for financial services organizations, offering new levels of flexibility, adaptability and cost savings.
This book cuts through the confusion by clearly describing SAP s approach to SOA the...
This book cuts through the confusion by clearly describing SAP s approach to SOA the...
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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become an important topic for financial services organizations, offering new levels of flexibility, adaptability and cost savings.
This book cuts through the confusion by clearly describing SAP s approach to SOA the enterprise services architecture (ESA), shared with leading banks and insurance companies. By illustrating the principles and vision behind ESA, this invaluable guide shows you exactly how it can benefit your financial services firm. In a concise and easy-to-read format, the authors introduce you to ESA and explain exactly how it works. In addition, you ll get a detailed description of the key steps that financial services institutions need to take in order to successfully deploy ESA.
This book is written primarily for CIOs, CTOs, IT managers, and consultants.
Highlights include:
- SOA and the benefits of the enterprise services architecture approach
- Characteristics of ESA: Architectural concepts, deployment and model-driven design
- Designing an application landscape: Business-driven design approach, types of services, architectural plan
- SAP s approach to ESA: Layering, service design, process platform, clusters
- Standards-based business applications: Semantic, technical, and portability standards
- Transition to ESA: Critical success factors
- ESA Checklist: Steps to successfully deploy ESA
This book cuts through the confusion by clearly describing SAP s approach to SOA the enterprise services architecture (ESA), shared with leading banks and insurance companies. By illustrating the principles and vision behind ESA, this invaluable guide shows you exactly how it can benefit your financial services firm. In a concise and easy-to-read format, the authors introduce you to ESA and explain exactly how it works. In addition, you ll get a detailed description of the key steps that financial services institutions need to take in order to successfully deploy ESA.
This book is written primarily for CIOs, CTOs, IT managers, and consultants.
Highlights include:
- SOA and the benefits of the enterprise services architecture approach
- Characteristics of ESA: Architectural concepts, deployment and model-driven design
- Designing an application landscape: Business-driven design approach, types of services, architectural plan
- SAP s approach to ESA: Layering, service design, process platform, clusters
- Standards-based business applications: Semantic, technical, and portability standards
- Transition to ESA: Critical success factors
- ESA Checklist: Steps to successfully deploy ESA
Klappentext zu „Enterprise Services Architecture for Financial Services “
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become an important topic for financial services organizations, offering new levels of flexibility, adaptability and cost savings.This book cuts through the confusion by clearly describing SAP's approach to SOA-the enterprise services architecture (ESA), shared with leading banks and insurance companies. By illustrating the principles and vision behind ESA, this invaluable guide shows you exactly how it can benefit your financial services firm. In a concise and easy-to-read format, the authors introduce you to ESA and explain exactly how it works. In addition, you'll get a detailed description of the key steps that financial services institutions need to take in order to successfully deploy ESA.
This book is written primarily for CIOs, CTOs, IT managers, and consultants.
Highlights include:
SOA and the benefits of the enterprise services architecture approach
Characteristics of ESA: Architectural concepts, deployment and model-driven design
Designing an application landscape: Business-driven design approach, types of services, architectural plan
SAP's approach to ESA: Layering, service design, process platform, clusters
Standards-based business applications: Semantic, technical, and portability standards
Transition to ESA: Critical success factors
ESA Checklist: Steps to successfully deploy ESA
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Enterprise Services Architecture for Financial Services “
- Foreword1. Global Warming: Stormy Weather Lies Ahead for the Financial Services Industry ... 11
1.1 Things Fall Apart, and Yet the Center Holds ... 12
1.2 IT as Problem and Solution ... 13
1.3 Enter the Service ... 14
1.4 Giving Technology the Business ... 14
2. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: A Ping-Pong Game between IT and Business ... 17
2.1 Reliability ... 17
2.2 Business Practices ... 19
2.3 Growth ... 21
2.4 Can SOA Make It Happen? ... 23
3. SOA: Hope, Hype, or Cold Coffee? 25
3.1 Getting Back to Basics ... 28
3.2 So, Is SOA the Answer to the Eternal Quest for Flexibility? ... 30
4. ESA Overview: Putting SOA to Work in the Enterprise ... 31
4.1 Transforming SOA into ESA ... 33
4.2 Putting Theory into Practice ... 35
4.3 The Changing Role of IT ... 39
5. Digging Deeper into Enterprise Services Architecture ... 41
5.1 The Enterprise Service as a Contract ... 42
5.2 Defining the Right Semantics ... 44
5.3 Little Drops of Water, Little Grains of Sand ... 45
5.4 Model-Driven Architecture ... 46
5.5 Communication Paradigms ... 53
5.6 Service Providers and Consumers ... 54
5.7 Service Implementation ... 56
5.8 Deployment ... 58
6. Designing an Application Landscape with Enterprise Services Architecture ... 59
6.1 A Top-Down Approach That Means (and Starts with) Business ... 59
6.2 Business-Driven Solution Design ... 60
6.3 A Step-by-Step Approach to Designing Enterprise Services ... 65
6.4 Systems of Related Enterprise Services ... 72
6.5 Enterprise Services in the Context of IT Landscapes ... 76
7. Turning ESA into Reality: SAP's Solution Approach ... 83
7.1 Transforming an Existing Software Application ... 83
7.2 Layering ... 84
7.3 Service Design ... 85
7.4 Service Implementation ... 86
7.5 Process Platform ... 86
7.6 Core Functionality for Financial Services Companies ... 88
7.7 Business-Oriented Clustering of Enterprise Services ... 88
7.8 Clusters in the Real World ... 89
7.9 Technical
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Perspective ... 91
7.10 Summing Up the Benefits of the Process Platform ... 91
7.11 ESA Ecosystem ... 92
8. ESA: A Framework to Build, Develop, and Run Standards-Based Business Applications ... 93
8.1 Categories of Standards ... 95
8.2 Standards in Enterprise Services Architecture ... 98
9. Making the Move: How to Handle the Transition to ESA ... 103
9.1 Success Factor No. 1: Decide Where You're Going and Why You're Going There ... 103
9.2 Success Factor No. 2: Do Not Try the 'Great Leap Forward' Approach ... 105
9.3 Success Factor No. 3: Elevate the Status of Your IT Architecture ... 106
9.4 Success Factor No. 4: Change the Way You Manage Your Business Landscape Lifecycle ... 108
9.5 Success Factor No. 5: Don't Neglect Integration Architecture ... 109
9.6 Success Factor No. 6: Know Where You're Going, When You Get There, and How to Measure Whether the Trip Did You Any Good ... 110
10. ESA Checklist: The Steps to be Taken ... 113
10.1 Phase 1: Prepare ... 114
10.2 Phase 2: Plan ... 114
10.3 Phase 3: Execution ... 115
10.4 Phase 4: Organize ... 117
10.5 Breaking the Silo Stranglehold ... 118
- Glossary ... 119
- Index ... 123
7.10 Summing Up the Benefits of the Process Platform ... 91
7.11 ESA Ecosystem ... 92
8. ESA: A Framework to Build, Develop, and Run Standards-Based Business Applications ... 93
8.1 Categories of Standards ... 95
8.2 Standards in Enterprise Services Architecture ... 98
9. Making the Move: How to Handle the Transition to ESA ... 103
9.1 Success Factor No. 1: Decide Where You're Going and Why You're Going There ... 103
9.2 Success Factor No. 2: Do Not Try the 'Great Leap Forward' Approach ... 105
9.3 Success Factor No. 3: Elevate the Status of Your IT Architecture ... 106
9.4 Success Factor No. 4: Change the Way You Manage Your Business Landscape Lifecycle ... 108
9.5 Success Factor No. 5: Don't Neglect Integration Architecture ... 109
9.6 Success Factor No. 6: Know Where You're Going, When You Get There, and How to Measure Whether the Trip Did You Any Good ... 110
10. ESA Checklist: The Steps to be Taken ... 113
10.1 Phase 1: Prepare ... 114
10.2 Phase 2: Plan ... 114
10.3 Phase 3: Execution ... 115
10.4 Phase 4: Organize ... 117
10.5 Breaking the Silo Stranglehold ... 118
- Glossary ... 119
- Index ... 123
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Autoren-Porträt von Bruno Bonati, Joachim Regutzki, Martin Schroter
Bruno Bonati worked for Credit Suisse from 1986 to 2004. Since 1996, he was responsible for IT and Operations as a member of the Executive Board. Under his leadership, Credit Suisse became a pioneer in the banking industry because of its service-oriented architecture (SOA). Bruno Bonati's primary focus has been on responding to strategic and management questions via SOA solutions. Since 2005, he has worked as an independent strategic IT consultant for larger institutions-predominantly banks-and SAP.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Bruno Bonati , Joachim Regutzki , Martin Schroter
- 2006, 127 Seiten, Maße: 17 x 24,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Rheinwerk Verlag
- ISBN-10: 1592290957
- ISBN-13: 9781592290956
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Enterprise Services Architecture for Financial Services “
(...) As financial services companies face shifts in customer behavior, consolidation and increasing regulatory requirements, the book outlines a road map to better cope with these pressures and help simplify technology adoption. Written for C-level technology executives at banks and insurance companies, the book provides a vision and approach for tomorrow's solution landscape for financial services organizations. Complete with industry insight on internal and external market challenges from banking and insurance executives and leading industry analysts, the book offers practical examples of how to utilize SOA standards to help the business.(...) This book is a resource to help banking and insurance executives understand and leverage SOA and enterprise services at the technology and business levels.SAP AG(NYSE: SAP), 10.05.2006
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