National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia succeeded to implement Service Oriented Architecture in a pilot project, with the contribution of software architects and experts of BIS.

NCB uses a set of heterogeneous systems, based on both packaged systems and in-house developed solutions, in order to address the automation needs of the Bank. In recent past homogeneous co-existence and unified functioning of these systems has presented the Bank with substantial integration challenges and NCB decided to remedy this state of affairs through a radical transformation based on currently available techniques and approaches. The bank targeted the future state of NCB’s automation platforms based on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that will result in substantial cost reductions as well as more streamlined business operations.

Solution

BIS performed a pilot project to demonstrate and prove the viability of a Service Oriented approach in Enterprise Architecture design via a concrete pilot implementation that is aimed at proving the advantages of such an approach. The selected transactions within the scope of the project are assumed to be used by a user group of almost 500 people. Hence, this group will start to get the benefit as soon as the project is implemented. The project was also composed of implementing active directory, related with the new project as the security model as well as eliminating or reducing the deployment efforts. The application developed is driven on NCB single workstation (portal). Monitoring and managing the operational activities and keeping the statistics of the transactions was also within the scope of the project.

Results

The pilot SOA project has proved that SOA architecture would provide the following benefits to the bank;

 

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