Enterprise Services Architecture for Financial Services: Taking SOA to the next level

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