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case study 13.09.2012
Service Bus Solution (SBS) for Bank Cards Summary Design and implement a service bus architecture to integrate diverse bank card core systems, including: scoring and application processing, real-time synchronization of card and account balances, account statements, SMS and email banking, internet banking, batch transaction processing, and reporting for multiple bank card types.
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Client: Major European commercial bank Business Area: Banking & Finance; Plastic Cards Technology Set: NET, MS SQL Server 2005, Web Services Integration: Internal core business systems User Profile: Bank Card Operations Geography: Ukraine, Europe Relationships Status: T&M Services Provided: Integration Team Size: 7 members Duration: 5 years
Business Challenge In a series of mergers and acquisitions, the bank had become the owner of two different bank card systems based in two countries, Hungary and Slovakia. These external systems had to be integrated and synchronized with the bank’s existing card services applications. The high-level requirements for this complicated integration were: uu Synchronize balances between the parent bank and the subsidiaries uu Audit synchronization processing for system management and historical reporting uu Service bus architecture must be designed to work during scheduled downtimes in the bank’s core systems uu Provide enterprise-level reporting for card accounts from parent and subsidiaries
Luxoft Delivered Solution Luxoft was selected as the bank’s development partner based on the depth of the business knowledge, technology expertise, competitive terms, quality of the system development process, the availability of qualified support personnel, and the long-term collaboration potential. The Luxoft team developed a service bus architecture that provides capabilities for advanced solutions for a broad scope of business needs and complex problems in integrating diverse bank card systems. The synchronization module performs the following high-level functions: Business data integration and synchronization uu Integrate bank card data from diverse sources with the enterprise core systems, with the capability of adding new data sources as needed uu Support for bidirectional synchronization
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POS TERMINAL
ATM
PROCESSING CENTER (HUNGARY)
PROCESSING CENTER (SLOVAKIA)
SMS BANKING E-BANKING
E-MAIL BANKING
SYSTEM OF SYNC
MS SQL SERVER ORACLE
S小ORING SYSTEM
PAYMENT SYSTEM
CORE SYSTEM
FRONT SYSTEMS
Business logic services uu Process incoming and outgoing messages to comply with customized business logic uu Maintain global business rules for bank card data properties System reliability assurance uu System emergency alerts and process handling uu Online and offline system modes to provide business process continuation in case of disconnection uu Guaranteed message delivery Luxoft - Case Study
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System administration uu Manage message routing parameters uu Adjust incoming and outgoing message structures uu Emergency processing management uu Transaction operations auditing
Benefits With Luxoft’s service bus solution, the bank is able to take full advantage of its acquisitions to increase profitability. Benefits of the service bus architecture include: uu Greatly reduced future development costs as the system is flexible and can be easily changed as the business needs change because enhancements require more configuration then coding uu Zero downtime with online and offline modes uu No business impact to customers and existing systems in the parent and subsidiary banks while gaining all of the benefits of integrating the business data at an enterprise level uu Provides for complex business activity monitoring between the parent and subsidiary banks uu Advanced system stability and reliability uu Highly scalable for enhancements and new data sources
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Luxoft, a principal subsidiary of IBS Group, is a provider of advanced application and software engineering outsourcing services for global and regional enterprises. Luxoft builds partnerships with its clients, such as Boeing, IBM, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Harman, Avaya, Alstom, and Sabre, based on the culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and deep domain expertise. Luxoft offers international delivery capability through its network of state-of-the-art delivery centers in North America, Eastern Europe, and Asia. Luxoft`s customers benefit from the right mix of technology skills, industry knowledge, proprietary processes and methodologies, and a choice of engagement models. For more information about Luxoft, visit www.luxoft.com www.luxoft.com/financial-services/
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