The Dawn of the Buy-Side Enterprise Architecture

摘要

Why Do asset management firms care about "enterprise architecture" - that is, the instilling of discipline, standards, a blueprint, and an overarching strategy over applications, technology and data? "The need for a central data architecture group - for integration standards, for following Web 2.0 architecture and for being more component -based - is being driven around cost savings, efficiencies and reuse, compounded by the need to process 24/7 globally," says Steven Weinreb, CIO at AIG Global Investments Group. "Without a central architecture around that, I'm not sure how you could ever meet those needs." Weinreb believes so strongly in the value of an enterprise architecture that he's setting up a dedicated enterprise architecture group at AIG this year and Wring staff. According to Weinreb, among other responsibilities, the new group will review every new piece of proprietary code and make sure it will work with existing and planned software.