Firstly, some background on EBS (website: www.ebs.ie): EBS is Ireland's largest building society. It is owned by its members and is not a bank (therefore, no current accounts). It provides mortgages (commercial and residential), personal loans, and savings accounts, as well as other financial products.
On the Vordel site there is some background about EBS's deployment of Vordel's products. Here are some snippits from that:
The Vordel solution provided a governance framework for an IBM infrastructure to enable EBS roll out new services and products to its channel partners in a controlled manner.
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Overlaying a security framework on the IBM WebSphere SOA platform, Vordel provided the ability to enforce policies at all application endpoints.
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allows policies for governance and compliance to be applied to XML applications throughout their networks, with centralized policy management and monitoring of traffic to centralized log files.
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These policies covered access management, encryption, digital signature and XML threat analysis, as well as Service Level Agreement monitoring and maintenance of searchable audit logs.
[More details at: http://www.vordel.com/news/press/6_06_07.html]
The presenter is David Yeates, Senior Manager IT Architecture at EBS.
Here is the abstract for the session, taking place at 11.40am on Thursday September 25 at the Vordel "Vortex 2008" conference at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin:
"An end-user organization's perspective on what SOA Governance really means"
A case study exploration of how a leading financial house has managed the roll out of Web Services as part of an entire SOA Governance process. This presentation explores the distinct lifecycle stages between design time, testing and staging, runtime enforcement, versioning and change control.
Mr. David Yeates, Senior IT Architecture Manager, EBS
