100 SOA Questions: Asked and Answered

Preface

Almost two decades ago, I completed a project to develop and deploy a teller and sales application for a large U.S. bank. Enhanced business capabilities, technology upgrades in the branches, and a pending bank merger were the business drivers. Some months after the production roll-out, as the Chief Architect, I was invited to a meeting with the Vice Chairman of the Retail Banking who wanted to understand my perspective on how the bank should address challenges in meeting future demands that required extending the reach of the teller and sales platform functionality to other parts of the bank.

The Vice Chairman was responsible for all retail functions of the bank and expansion was hot on the agenda. The bank was growing, entering new ...