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
The project’s main objective was to host private banking applications with single sign-on capability, thus automating daily tasks via global customer handling, exploiting the enterprise service bus framework architecture, and managing multiple and concurrent customer sessions. Modifying existing functionality or creating new functionality in the existing back-end systems was beyond the project’s scope.
In the context of the parent project, the bank adopted RUP as its development methodology. ID was the first to adopt AUP to produce quick-win user results. The bank’s IT strategy unit and IT development units authorized AUP’s adoption.
Figure 1 summarizes the project’s main characteristics.