Member Quotes

"Callataÿ & Wouters’ involvement with BIAN underlines our ongoing commitment to SOA. The shared knowledge of the BIAN community feeds into our mission to build future-proof solutions for the banking sector. Working as part of BIAN has inspired us to achieve new standards of excellence in our R&D approach which directly benefit the solutions we deliver to our banking customers."

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"Modern banking is all about service, and services today depend on highly flexible IT structures that are able to shift to meet industry needs as they occur. Achieving this would be exceedingly difficult and impractical without SOA, and BIAN is doing essential work in this area. Therefore, we made the decision to join BIAN."

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"Being an active member of the BIAN, Credit Suisse sees the creation of this association as significant milestone for not only ourselves, but for the industry as a whole. The association will create an open environment of members that begins with an idea and takes it all the way through to execution.”

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"Fernbach Software has fully supported BIAN since October 2008, and adheres to the need to accelerate the adoption of Service Orientated Architecture in the banking industry. Fernbach and BIAN seek to improve the fundamental basics of business applications and to encourage the restructuring of IT architectures to enhance interoperability between banks. The ability to reduce costs while mitigating risk and ensuring transparency is a key objective of FERNBACH SOFTWARE and BIAN."

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“We want BIAN to have success in the short-term. The principle of the community is based on the contribution of several members. Hence, we drive those topics actively that we are experts in. For a consulting company such as ifb group the opportunity to contribute to the synthesis of banks’ different approaches is very valuable and enables us to deliver what our customers need.”

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“As a service provider we are highly interested in the future solutions of our customers. We consider BIAN as the platform to place the current needs and problems of our customers and to experience from the BIAN members so that we can participate on the future design of the banking software.”

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“In large organizations, integration costs make or break the business case in building new applications. The cost level is determined by the degree of standardization of interfaces, from a technical and a definition point of view. While it is becoming more and more clear that SOA is the best technology for internal (today) and external (soon) interfaces, standards will have to be agreed upon at industry level. That is why BIAN, and the facilitation it provides for software vendors and banks is so important to us."

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“We believe that sharing the BIAN idea of standardized borders between the IT business domains of a bank will help our customers to integrate standardized software components more easily and less costly into their existing system landscapes. We therefore are actively engaged in developing this landscape within the Service Landscape working group.”

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“We believe that the results of BIAN will become a broadly accepted banking industry standard, comparable with the SWIFT Standard for monetary transactions. For zeb/ - as one of the leading consulting companies for banking industry in the European Market - it is simply a ‘must’ to be an active BIAN-Member. BIAN helps us to develop zeb//control, our software solution for overall bank control, as a SOA compliant solution based on market needs and agreed models and semantics.”

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“Microsoft is committed to lowering the cost of ownership and providing a more flexible and innovative platform for banking. In addition, we consider an open standards based environment critical to our success. As a founding and active member of BIAN, Microsoft is enabling global collaboration with key thought-leaders in the banking and IT communities around the establishment of technology standards and SOA best practices. In doing so, BIAN will be instrumental in laying the groundwork for the banking industry services in the new economy.”

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“Postbank places high emphasis on using standardized, purchasable software. We are optimistic that BIAN as a joint effort of banking industry companies will lead to the creation of a broadly accepted banking industry standard which defines the borderlines of banking IT components as well as the services mediating the communication between them. On the long term, we expect the implementation of this standard to massively improve the interoperability of products from different vendors as well as the sustainability of our own, standard-aligned, applications.”

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“We are committed to BIAN, because this work is of high value and importance in the transition of the industry. Our engagement is shown by the involvement in many working groups as well by the support of the organisation.”

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“We gain information and experiences about standardisation of SAO of other banks and from all workgroup members. This enriches our daily work and makes us capable to construct faster modern solutions for the financial services industry.”

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“Two factors are forcing banks and their suppliers to do a better job by creating clear standards: the credit crunch and globalisation. Every time a bank acts in isolation and recreates a process which is common across the majority of banks, it is wasting its time, probably creating a less efficient customer process than it could, and ignoring the wisdom of others. Every time a software vendor turns these common processes into proprietary code and claims uniqueness, the banking industry is less well off than it could be. BIAN is the place where banks and software vendors learn, discuss and ultimately disseminate best-process practices. SunGard is a founding member of BIAN because we believe that open-processes are beneficial to banks, their customers, and software vendors.”

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“SWIFT’s mission is to drive efficiencies in the financial industry by enabling automation. To achieve this, SWIFT’s standardization efforts focus on the content and usage of messages exchanged between institutions. Because BIAN’s interest is in standardizing the IT landscape within institutions, BIAN is fully aligned with SWIFT’s goal of increasing efficiency, but complementary in its approach. SWIFT supports and contributes to BIAN to ensure that BIAN and SWIFT/ISO standards work well together and deliver maximum efficiency benefits for the industry.”

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“BIAN is an important pillar in the syskoplan SOA strategy. The network allows us to contribute to industry standards and at the same time, bring together our service offering in the areas of analytics and SOA for banks. Using the standards of BIAN, syskoplan AG is offering state-of-the art solutions that help our customer to respond on changes in the market in a very flexible and agile way.”

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“Our clients want software that adheres to integration standards so they can reduce cost and risk while at the same time increasing the agility of their IT infrastructure.”

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“ZKB is convinced that standardization in the financial industry will also include the software development and operations. ZKB as a leading Swiss bank will be part of this standardization process and proactively make a contribution to it. Due to our positive experiences with SAP-IVN we joined BIAN without any doubts.”

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