Loan System in Brazilian Financial Institution - A SOA Application

With the intention of offering financial products to its customers in a fast, secure and high technological value, the financial institutions has been highlighted by constant investment in the area of Information Technology. This article presents the technology by a Brazilian institution and developed by a software provider, using the Service Oriented Architecture, enabling customers to access the functionalities of a System of Financing and Loan. Through architecture are generated financial affairs with confidence, performance and security that customers expect from a financial institution. Its unique feature is to present the development of mainframe subprograms with the profile of componentization, but without losing original features such as robustness, high performance and information security. Its main contribution is to demonstrate that it is possible to unify completely different platforms in a Service Oriented Architecture, provided that it has focused on the fact that the most important features of each of these platforms are utilized. How was extracted lessons learned that should be followed important points of attention in the definition of the architecture such as not using SOA as hype or without sufficient technical knowledge.