SOA & Middleware

In today’s financial climate it has become very important to address the complexity of enterprise IT by delivering a unified development and integration platform for creating a more adaptive enterprise, to meet the needs of customers, partners and employees.

The frameworks required for SOA have evolved and are now labelled ‘superior’ by helping businesses leverage IT assets, deliver speedy new services, and increase adaptability to ongoing change. To increase business responsiveness, it is essential to deliver the right SOA platform and reduce IT complexity.

This will result in IT becoming a partner to the business, helping to drive significant gains in compatibility, adaptability and productivity.

The challenges unique to banking and finance services companies are to integrate their applications and dramatically increase complexity of their infrastructure. As middleware infrastructure and its complexity grow, professionals are continually looking for increased efficiencies.

This issue of FST will demonstrate the key role of SOA and Middleware in aligning IT with corporate goals and objectives.

Under Discussion

• Getting the most from your SOA investment
• Service-oriented legacy integration and its key benefits
• The convergence of structured and unstructured information management
• SOA delusions and how to avoid them
• Wireless Technologies – disruptive, but ‘enterprise important’
• The evolution and use of middleware in banking and finance
• ebXML, Java and XML web services
• Cross border trade order routing and settlement using middleware
• Real-time trading and transactions, front office insight, wholesale payment processing, web servers, application servers
• Messaging and mobile middleware
• Internal controls, data management, and operational risk management

Roundtable Invitation

Financial Services Technology will be putting together an exciting and influential roundtable of elite vendors to discuss the main focus areas. Questions will be put to C-level executives leading these individual companies so that they may address the concerns of Europe's financial sector.

The roundtable will be moderated by our journalists and allows the best and brightest to educate our audience through their thought leadership and best practices.