How to make SOA pay for itself
Computer Weekly reports on ING Direct relying on an service orientated architecture based IT infrastructure and how Capgemini's approach of onshore and offshore won the day.
30 March 2007
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In October 2006 ING Direct went live with its new online mortgage service, in a bid to break into the UK market. The services was ING Direct’s biggest and most complex IT project to date.
The project’s objective was to provide customers applying for mortgages - by phone or online - with a simpler and faster service backed with a slick IT system.
With a large requirement for technical standards, ING opted for an onshore and offshore programming team from Capgemini.
Paul Coad, Capgemini Account Director responsible for the project said “the bank wanted the application developed quickly, so a Mumbai-based Capgemini team of 65 people moved over to the UK to work alongside ING’s project team in Reading”.
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