Banking institutions across the world pursue coarse grained application level reuse as a means to achieve a higher level of agility and cost saving. The reality is that the cost of achieving this reuse often exceeds the actual cost and time-to-market benefit derived from it. The challenges associated with reuse in larger established banks are [...]

The new kid on the “hype” block is Cloud Computing.  I am told not to confuse Cloud and Grid Computing even though it’s not too difficult to bundle them as one concept. In effect what Cloud Computing attempts to do is remove complexity by abstraction.  This means that a user achieves a result without really [...]