The finance industry is littered with best-of-breed assemble IT landscapes. As consequence each institution is well familiar with the troubles of data and process integration while employing various standards, as well as the management of a complex set of required system specific IT skills. Large software corporations have sought for several years to establish an integrated technical platform for the „standard financial institution“ and have so far mostly failed. But recent developments with regards to newer platform approaches, oftentimes linked to cloud based approaches, bring the question of the „plug and play“ bank back into focus. But will it work …
