(...) „This book cuts through the confusion by clearly decribing SAP´s approach to SOA - the enterprise service architecture (ESA), shared with leading banks and insurance companies. By illustrating the principles and visions behind ESA, this invaluable guide shows you exactly how it can benefit your financial service firm.“
(...) 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.
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
