Fortune 50: Integrations

Our client, a fortune 50 company is a global leader in the commercial finance arena with over $200 billion in assests.

Challenge

When our client chose to upgrade their 20 year old core operational system from a mainframe application to the Oracle Lease Management System (OLM), they challenged Techlogix to implement an enterprise integration architecture interface points with various internal and external systems and applications owned by customers, vendors and other business partners that would:

scale to their growing business

provide the flexibility to interoperate with evolving business processes and IT systems.

automate processing

provide centralized management

OLM needed to seamlessly interact with disparate internal and external systems managed by customers, vendors and other business partners such as:

Origination Systems for contract and customer data.
Funding Systems for check printing and payment.
Invoice Systems
Customer Service Systems
Tax Systems

Techlogix was engaged to provide a complete integration solution for the rollout of this Global Lease Management solution.

Solution

Techlogix designed and implemented the webMethods Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) in a fully clustered environment and Informatica Data Integration Solution to support the 24x7x365 business processes. Integrations were designed as publish and subscribe to allow for maximum flexibility and scalability. Modular implementation, reuse of integration design patterns and centralized management of the EAI architecture improved reliability, maintainability and support of key business data.

The solution provides a common framework to:

Import Contracts, vendors, customer and assets information from the Origination Systems into Lease Management to manage their life cycle.
Automatic receipts and payments via DD, wire transfers and check printing through different financial institutions
Invoice printing, imaging and dispatch through third parties.
Recoveries of delinquent accounts through Collection Agencies
Contracts, Termination Quotes, invoices, receipt and payment details to vendors and customers through vendor and customer self-service Systems
Special Reporting to vendors, customers and financial institutions
Periodic feeds to Data Warehouse and other Decision Support Systems

The solution includes a set of Real-time, batch and request-based Interfaces transferring data ranging from a few hundred records to half a million during peak times. Additionally, the XML based messaging provides a flexible and extensible solution for evolution from existing point-to-point integrations to a publish-and-subscribe paradigm where multiple systems could be the recipients of the same data.

Benefits

Our client was able to rollout Oracle Lease Management solution tightly integrated with multiple vendors, partners and customers. The new architecture could scale to the needs of the business and offer the flexibility to add additional business partners, integrate with new acquired systems and accounts with ease. Automation of integrations and common framework increased the efficiency of processing and have shortened the time to respond to issues. In addition, key enterprise data was published from its system of record to all other applications to ensure a high level of data quality throughout the enterprise.

Technology

The Integration solution was developed using webMethods Integration Platform 6.1.5 and Infomatica 7.1.3 with extensive custom Java components and PL/SQL packages. Real-time integrations have been developed by creating web Services using SOAP. Integrations are interacting with Oracle Application Suites through Oracle Exposed APIs and interface Tables. Concurrent programs and scheduling services within webMethods and Informatica have been created to trigger interfaces at their respective schedules.