Kiwibank - Using .NET 3.0 to quietly get on with it

Last year, along with Jeremy Boyd and chief architect - Bohdan Szymanik,  I had the pleasure of working with rapidly growing Kiwibank who had a common problem experienced by most larger organisations - just how do you link and leverage a whole bunch of different systems on different platforms and move them from being a bunch of disparate systems to becoming an integrated platform focused on meeting the organisations business requirements.

To put it another way - How do you move from a bunch of point solutions to a fully integrated environment? By integrated I mean integrated at the process level not just at the information sharing level.

There is no silver bullet or big bang approach to do this - Kiwibank have embarked on a programme to integrate their systems using a SOA approach based on open standards. They have chosen the .NET 3.0 technologies WCF (to leverage WS-* implementations) and WF (Workflow) as core technologies to implement their programme and are already seeing some early benefits.

I'm delighted that Kiwibank have decided to share their experiences via this case study > http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=200491

The case study is worth a look and it is great to see what is becoming known as a great 'Kiwi battler' taking on the market using a clever, well thought out, set of strategies and technologies. Instead of announcing some great huge expensive project these folk are just quietly getting on with it – that’s the Kiwi spirit !