Customer Oriented STP

About Intesa Sanpaolo
Being aware of the importance of its role and influence within the
Italian financial markets, Intesa Sanpaolo has decided to update and increase
the flexibility of its securities department systems, through the
implementation of technically advanced solutions based on INCENTAGE's
middleware. The Intesa Sanpaolo group includes CABOTO, BANCO AMBROSIANO VENETO and
CARIPLO among others. Having always been a high-level user of SWIFT,
Intesa Sanpaolo decided to consolidate its leading position in the SWIFT
messaging area to meet the demand from its international clientele.
The Problem
In today's cost aware market, customer oriented services are more
important than ever. It is important to increase both Intesa Sanpaolo's and it's
clients' efficiency through electronic communication in a flexible, customer
specific way.
The Solution
The Java based INCENTAGE Middleware Suite is highly
business oriented and thus provides the flexibility needed to address these
issues.
INCENTAGE receives messages resulting from business
events on the host. Using
comprehensive routing tables and customer profile information, INCENTAGE
determines the appropriate action to take. Messages will be routed to relevant channels and will be replicated
where required. Specialised
INCENTAGE components ensure that messages are formatted correctly for each
channel.
"Felix Huber"
Due to the fact that INCENTAGE allows the utmost flexibility in the combination
of conversion rules with sequences of lookups, the client profiles may
consist of multiple tables and relations. To prevent redundancy, INCENTAGE can access existing client profiles
from any relational database system.
What INCENTAGE did
INCENTAGE passed Intesa Sanpaolo’s highly demanding tests - clearly showing
that the product could deliver all requirements.
Data systems were also subjected to rigorous parallel and independent
tests. Test results showed the
need for an integrated router. The router receives data from various applications and - using a reference
database, determines the required message types and the relevant
transmission routes. The routes
implemented were SWIFT, TELEX, Fax and SMS.
Implementation of an additional route would simply require the addition
of a new record to the route database.
Message duplication is also taken care of: an incoming message may
generate multiple outgoing messages, for example a message could be sent to
two different destinations over SWIFT, while also being sent via Fax and SMS.
As all message level communication is over IBM’s WebSphere MQ (formerly
MQSeries), the integration of existing application systems required only
minor adaptations.
One of Intesa Sanpaolo’s stringent requirements was the reconciliation of
the entire messaging workflow. Using
INCENTAGE, it is possible to check each route’s full audit log for all
transmissions on a particular processing date. Selection can be based on message contents or on their format. It is also easy to report on failed messages due to formal data
errors. The volume of data
supplied in the various phases of the workflow enables detailed
reconciliation.
All this will enable Intesa Sanpaolo to introduce new message types and
formats with minimum effort and to respond quickly to changing internal and
external requirements.
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