Banking Industry Architecture Network

The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) is an independent non-profit organization for the standardization of service-oriented architectures in the banking sector. The organization emerged from the Industry Value Network for Banks (IVN), which was founded in 2005. In 2006 IVN had 20 banks and 16 software providers and IT service providers as members.

aims

The aim of BIAN is to increase the flexibility of bank-specific IT systems by improving the system architecture through services.

Results

The desired results are:

Definition of services

Definition of business (functional) services for retail, private and corporate banking.

architecture

Development of guidelines and methods to ensure consistent services:

Meta model
Methodologies and Guidelines.
Service Quality
Service Landscape
Object model

Building blocks

Knowledge building for supporting activities to successfully introduce and further develop service-oriented architectures:

Roadmap and Implementation
Business Architecture
Processes and Organization
Banking software
Skills, soft factors

Members

Members of BIAN are from the areas

Banks
Broker (e.g. SWIFT )
Provider (software provider, management consultancy, service provider, etc.)