Intelligent Finance (IF.com), the telnet bank of Halifax Bank of Scotland, is one of the UK’s most successful banking businesses. The entire banking system was planned, designed, and built under the lead of Vision Consulting. With less than one year from initial plan to launch, Vision’s challenge was to coordinate over 500 IT staff in 23 different vertical projects to deliver the new bank successfully. In this Interview, Billy Glennon (CEO of Vision Consulting) and Dirk Slama (co-author of “Enterprise SOA”) discuss why, from a management point of view, the adoption of SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) was critical to the success of the project.

Does SOA boost Outsourcing? Dr. Martin Eldracher of sd&m discusses the relationship of SOA and different outsourcing approaches including off-shore development, Business Service Outsourcing (BSO), and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO).