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
