BIAN: Defining the Service Landscape

2009/03/26
by David Frankel, SAP AG

David Frankel at BIAN

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.

In my SDN article Getting Started with the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN), which elaborates on BIAN’s value proposition for the banking industry and outlines the organizational structure, I mentioned that 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.

The figure below is a high-level schematic of the Service Landscape that BIAN is in the process of defining. BIAN is working on an updated Service Landscape that will be working its way through the ratification process.

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