Runtime SOA Governance for Financial Services Leaders
Amid market pressure to introduce value-added new products and services, increasing government regulation, ongoing industry consolidation and market globalization, financial services companies are hard pressed to increase operational efficiencies while, at the same time, reduce costs. To meet these myriad requirements, the financial services industry is now investing heavily in SOA, a platform flexible enough to accommodate rapid business change.
The distributed, heterogeneous nature of evolving SOA systems, however, raises unprecedented governance issues — requirements that must be met before organizations can make production use of services-based applications:
- Ensuring operational health
- Insight into business transactions
- Managing across multiple machines
- Addressing heightened security concerns
- Setting and maintaining appropriate service levels
- Managing unexpected conditions
AmberPoint is the foremost provider of SOA solutions that meet these runtime governance requirements. We’ve applied our vast experience in this area to assist many of the industry’s leading financial services organizations in applying the benefits of SOA to their businesses.
A good example of our work in this field can be found at H&R Block Financial Advisors, who have achieved significant cost savings, greater operational efficiencies and 100% system availability from their AmberPoint-managed, services-based lead-routing system. Additionally, we’ve won much acclaim for our work in this industry, including the Network World Enterprise All-Stars Award, the InfoWorld 100 Award, the Computerworld Innovative Technology Award and the Best Practices in Enterprise Management Award.
