A Model for Enabling Context-Adapted Deployment and Configuration Operations for the Banking Environment

In the banking sector business requirements continuously change whereas IT infrastructure investments must be amortized over years. This conflict produces very heterogeneous systems. Adopting the SOA / BPM approach helps coping with that complexity. This way, everything is a service, easing composition and integration. On top of that, strict security and reliability requirements exacerbate the need of a robust management infrastructure. We propose a service-centric operational management architecture for which we have defined a resource model based on the leading standards for characterizing systems, services and operations. This model is supported by a dynamic agent infrastructure, which automatically instruments the targeted environments. These concepts are illustrated by a proof of concept consisting of deployment and configuration activities over distributed banking services.