Bank of America Corp. plans to soon begin work on the third generation of its service-oriented architecture to support an expected doubling of Web services transactions from its current 550 million per month.
The next-generation SOA, expected by the third quarter of next year, will use IBM's Information FrameWork (IFW), a set of business models and an information architecture blueprint, to integrate application processes.
Bank of America is still negotiating with IBM for an enterprise license, said Kim Kazmaier, senior integration architect at the Charlotte, N.C.-based bank.
