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Multi-branch Solution for Co-operative Bank The bank required a rapid turnaround in order to meet competitive challenges and there were budgetary constraints (relatively speaking.) The problem was compounded by the fact that the vendor of the existing software did not have the technical competency to provide the solution. The platforms, PowerBuilder and Sybase also posed a problem because there aren't enough expert resources available on those platforms anymore. VolkSoft Technologies were called in to evaluate the possibility of modifying the existing software to meet the new requirements. To summarize the constraints:
Our team conducted a complete evaluation of the existing software, network and processes, and worked out several possibilities. In the end the team decided on the following priority list:
We recommended developing a messaging system and providing an Application Programming Interface (API) that the existing software would integrate at nodal points. In this way, the onus of ensuring that the transactions were safely reflected at the "own" branch as well as the "transacting" branch would be on the messaging system. The existing business rules layer would be unaffected except for introducing a couple of API calls at specific places in the code. The solution would optimize the number of messages and nodes in transactions by propagating information on a need basis without compromising on the integrity of the transaction. The system would provide facilities such as:
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