Abhijit Gupta is the Chief Enterprise Architect for Personal & Corporate Banking IT & Operations (PCB IT/O) within Global Technology & Operations division of Deutsche Bank. He also leads the SOA Initiative for PCB IT/O. He has more than fourteen years of experience in the IT and Financial Industry. Abhijit has been in leading positions in different IT areas within the bank for last 10 years. In his previous role, Abhijit was the Global Head for Enterprise Workflow Solutions and Asia Pacific Head for Risk IT. In his current role, Abhijit is primarily responsible to drive technological and architectural standardization, lead implementation of the Domain Architecture and SOA Initiative across all business units supported by PCB IT/O which are Global Transaction Banking, Retail Banking and Wealth Management business.

Abhijit started his career in one of the biggest IT Consulting firm where he managed offshore delivery of software projects for major clients. He holds a Master degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering.

Presentation
SOA – Why it is Important to Deutsche Bank
1) Why it is important to DB?
For IT to continue to be partners in performance to the bank's business, we need to focus on consistency and flexibility to support speed to market, industrialization and entry into new markets. To support this, SOA initiative at Deutsche bank comes from three perspectives:

• SOA is a joint business & IT initiative, not just an IT one.
• It is about implementing an IT Architecture to support the industrialization of banking processes. It is an end to end life cycle starting with business requirements from a process oriented approach and their implementation into IT applications as reusable services.
• It is a paradigm shift from an application-centric view to a portfolio centric view. This requires a change of mindset both in front office and back office business areas and a move away from building, enhancing and maintaining application by application to a more Service Oriented Enterprise (SOE) Model.

2) What we are doing and why
When we started the SOA program in end 2005, we started with Lighthouse Projects as we believe in step by step implementation and not a big bang one. By end of 2006, we had already chosen the primary SOA platform. We will pilot this platform for Orinoco, which is one of the key SOA projects in 2007, automating the optimized back-office processes in Retail Banking. Besides this in 2006, we also have implemented the Governance platform based on the PCB IT/O Business Architecture and implementation of Domains. We are currently in next phase of identifying further reengineering opportunities where SOA is applicable and also extend the reuse of the SOA platform to other key initiatives.

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