Deliverables


Service Definition

BIAN is focused on semantic definitions only.
Definition of business functional services for Retail-, Private and Corporate banking


Architecture

In the stream Architecture BIAN defines the appropriate guidelines and methodologies and all the concepts to ensure consistent services:

  • Meta Model
  • Methodologies and Guidelines
  • Service Quality
  • Service Landscape
  • Object Model

Building Blocks - Successful Transition to a SOA

BIAN collects the know-how of members in order to describe the necessary elements to implement and run a SOA successfully through different maturity stages including Roadmap and Implementation:

  • Business Architecture
  • Processes and Organisation
  • Banking Software
  • Skills, Soft Factors

The benefits of participation are structured according to a time scale. There are benefits that are immediately visible – the motivation for participating – and benefits that will be reached in the mid-term or long-term.


The immediate benefits are:

  • Access to strong knowledge of participants
  • Short learning curve through discussions of best practices
  • Networking beyond BIAN
  • Access to and experience with a specific methodology that provides a benchmark for organization’s internal activities

Mid-term benefits include:

  • Incorporation of results by software providers and in-house development staff when defining and specifying their software – the standardization that results reduces integration costs
  • Comprehensive view of the service landscape and important services for the banking application landscape
  • Clear understanding of practical and feasible approaches, best practices, and strategic directions for implementing SOA

Long-term benefits are:

BIAN is focused on semantic definitions only.
Definition of business functional services for Retail-, Private and Corporate banking

  • Reaching the vision of BIAN as well as reducing the integration cost and enabling more flexibility and agility through a service-oriented IT
  • Having a reference for internal projects and sourcing provided by an IT architecture that is universally accepted and based on industry-specific standards