This paper looks at the latest trends in the market with respect to core system replacement and outlines Microsoft’s strategy for larger banks that are considering a service-oriented architecture (SOA)–based approach to migrating their legacy core systems from mainframe and midrange platforms to a new generation of commodity hardware platforms that run the Windows Server® operating system and that are capable of supporting the largest core banking operations.

As core system migration strategies gather momentum worldwide and larger banks start to adopt SOA-based strategies to ensure they put in place an agile banking platform for the future, Microsoft is increasingly recognized as having the mission-critical credentials to provide the platform of choice for a new generation of banking enterprise services that will complement its multi-channel collaborative and communications technologies and help ensure that banks realize a "People Ready" vision.


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