Cases

Integration Services in Banking

HERMES SoftLab Integration Services were performed in several banks. The main challenge was to integrate our own developed e-banking solution into different existing bank environment.

The retail e-banking solution enables bank clients to perform different kind of transactions, overviews and enquires in the electronic way. The components of our e-banking solution include the core middleware solution, module for managing the system, module for issuing and prolonging the certificates, internal database, gateway, application for retail banking, farm of web and application servers.

The local operational data base is build on IBM UDB2 environment, which needed the integration into the e-banking solution and its purpose is to assure better performance of the entire solution. Data are synchronized with the banks existing database with the use of CICS transactions. The synchronization is being performed in "on-line" as well as in "batch" mode.
In some cases the synchronization with the bank existing database is performed with IBM Message Queue System.

A high level of security on different levels is achieved with the implementation of best of breed mechanisms (firewalls, SSL, PKI, certificates, smart cards, digital signing, etc.). Additional services of training, maintaining and supporting the solution are offered to our customers.

Our customers like Nova Ljubljanska banka d.d., Poštna banka Slovenije d.d. both from Slovenija and HYPO Alpe-Adria-Bank d.d. from Croatia implemented the retail e-banking solution which differs in functionality but needed the integration into the existing bank environment.

Professional Services in Insurance Company

Slovenian biggest insurance company is renewing its information system. The basis for this renewal is the new application supporting new product for unit-linked insurance (a new product of life insurance). Functions that are supported within are next:

• to contract the life insurance (offer, policy, underwriting),
• possibility of data policy changes,
• subsystem of inkaso and provisioning
• implementation of entire management handling system.

The application for unit-linked insurance works as web client, where the authentication of users is performed over the IBM Domino (LDAP) server. For the communication with clients the SSL protocol is used. The application is based on:

• usage of new technologies which are supported within IBM WebSphere V5 (J2EE, JSP, Java, Servlets, EJB 2.0, CMP EJB, MVC, STRUTS),
• 3-tier architecture and
• data base IBM DB2 UDB.

The application is designed to enable the connection with existing insurance information system, supports Multilanguage, and offers the support for further development in new technologies. The application was most probably the first in Slovenia to be implemented with IBM WebSphere V5.