Using AUP, one of the largest banks in Greece implemented a small to medium-scale project called the Integrated Desktop (ID). It was an important part of a large company-wide project that aimed to transition the company’s IT architecture from the aged client-server model to one using SOA concepts.
The parent project was based on an enterprise service bus framework—a standard architectural framework in the world of SOAs—developed for the company’s particular needs.
throughout the project life cycle. Figure 3 shows the project time line.
Inception
During inception, the team defined the project scope as follows:
■■A role-based integrated user desktop hosts private-banking applications.
■■The ID system automates daily tasks via global customer handling, exploiting the SOA-based parent project architecture and managing multiple and concurrent customer sessions.
■■The ID system prefetches customer information and shares it intelligently among different applications to eliminate redundancy and radically reduce the time users must spend to complete tasks.