Brenda Rideout, CIO and senior vice president information technology at Toronto-based ING DIRECT, says that as an enabler to the business IT is focused on making sure its products are simple and can be automated. She discusses how this has been accomplished through development of an architecture that embraced SOA principles ahead of their time; as well as through an ever-increasing concentration on security.

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