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	March 17, 2008 Business Services Ecosystems For Banking: The Future Is Bright And Most Likely Heterogeneous Vendors Use Multiple Approaches To Drive Semantic Business Services Specifications by Jost Hoppermann with Gene Leganza, Kahini Ranade

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Executive Summary

Forrester surveyed application infrastructure, banking platform, and IT services vendors on their approaches toward semantic specifications of business services in the banking industry. We specifically probed their positions regarding business services ecosystems driving semantic specifications. The survey identified four groups of vendors that are working on open or vendor-specific business services ecosystems, trying to drive convergence of semantic standards, or participating in related activities. Scenarios for the future show that banks' enterprise architects will most likely have to deal with multiple heterogeneous business services ecosystems, as Forrester does not expect the drivers for convergence to succeed in a comprehensive way.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Vendor Approaches Are Anything But Coherent
• Fidelity National Information Services And SAP Are Drivers Of Open Ecosystems
• IBM And Oracle Are Drivers Of Vendor-Specific Ecosystems
• BEA Systems And Microsoft Can Be Drivers Of Convergence
• Accenture, Sun Microsystems, And Tata Consultancy Services Are Member Players
• Business Services Ecosystems May Also Drive Heterogeneity

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