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Article by William Hoffman, mainframe-upgrade.com
Published May 2006, Copyright © 2006 mainframe-upgrade.com
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Wachovia's SOA adventure |
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The 4th largest bank in the US Wachovia – has
started implementing a full on, end-to-end, IBM mainframe SOA with zAAP and
Websphere. The results so far are good. Read more at this mainframe
blog. Everyone is going to be watching this one very carefully –
their plan takes them through to 2008 and their expectations are high – they
hope to cut costs by a massive 40%. Read the Internetnews
article.
Wachovia are also being innovative in their use of
bonus payments to developers who adopt enthusiastically the new skillsets and
get involved in the forging the new SOA solutions. Read more on this at aspnews.
For more interesting background on the Wachovia
adventure read IBMs
Wachovia Case Study from July 2005.
There are also challenges:
"Staff resistance and new ways of doing development work are some of the
barriers that need to be overcome when implementing SOA". Read more on
this in the computerworld article.
Wachovia picked SOA because it enabled creating "true standalone services" that
could be called on demand for all those purposes
without replicating data. Another interesting article
from mortgage-technology.com.
All in all this does look like a very interesting and huge SOA development -
here at mainframe-upgrade.com we will be
watching carefully - and we will bring you all the interesting developments as
they happen.
More Wachovia Links
Wachovia to deliver keynote address highlighting how DataSynapse Virtualization Technology is used as the
foundation for its Worldwide SOA strategy. DataSynapse press
release.
IBM
- Wachovia Customer SOA video
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