Summary

Ikasan addresses the problem of integrating business systems with specific focus in the financial sector.

Financial institutions utilise a multitude of external and internal systems the latter of which can be a third-party product or in-house development. The purpose of Ikasan is to provide easily configured solutions to isolate the specifics of an integrated application whilst at the same time exposing the business artefacts thus presenting a common reusable business interface Ikasan addresses the problem of integrating business systems with specific focus in the financial sector.

Problem Definition

End users need to be able to access and orchestrate data as a function of the business without incurring the continued overheads from IT to achieve this.

This problem in the finance sector is exacerbated by

Starting Principles

Ikasan started through the definition of the following basic principles.

Architectural Strategies

From the above principles the following strategies emerged.