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BIAN – Banking Industry Architecture Network
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“The target of BIAN is to enable faster strategic and operational changes of the banking business by providing systematically defined banking functional IT services based on a broad consensus in the banking industry.”
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- BIAN Newsletter / May 2009 more>
- BIAN readies first deliverables more>
- A Standard is a Standard is a... more>
- BIAN: Defining the Service Landscape more>
NEWS
2009/05/05
BIAN readies first deliverables
The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) is set to publish its initial deliverables in June, somewhat over a year after it was spun out of an SAP-led initiative (IBS Online, May 2008). Those deliverables, which will be available to the industry as a whole, will comprise documents covering the services landscape, meta-model definition, services lifecycle management, and service repositories and registries, plus business definitions for service lifecycle management, payment agreements, payment execution, clearing and settlement, business partners, business partner agreements, and business partner relationships. more »
2009/03/27
A Standard is a Standard is a ...
When can one say that a certain type of consensus is worth being called a standard? Let us exclude - for the moment; I might come back to this - the question of formality and ownership. So I am not going to discuss if the term standard depends on the body owning or maintaining this or what the difference between a standard and a de facto standard is. more »
2009/03/26
BIAN: Defining the Service Landscape
BIAN is breaking down banking functionality into discrete modules, and defining service interfaces to those modules. BIAN calls this breakdown the Service Landscape. Let's examine what the Service Landscape looks like. more »
2009/02/06
New BIAN Chair and Vice Chair
Bob Stutz, SAP AG and Dr. Thomas Mangel, Postbank Systems AG have been elected at the last BIAN Board Meeting as the new Chair and Vice Chair of BIAN. more »
2008/10/21
FERNBACH-Software tritt dem Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) bei
FERNBACH-Software, a global leader providing sophisticated component-based solutions is pleased to announce that it has joined the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN). more »
