Enterprise Application Integration

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Enterprise Application Integration
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• Some context Overview of Quasar our customers
• Quasar our market/customers 10 years ago ie
  single system, a few point to point interfaces
• Quasar Our Customers now (ie functional
  application centric, middleware, masses of EAI
• how do we bridge the gap?
• middleware, messaging standards
• what the future holds

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Who are we?

• Were a global software solutions company
  achieved current market position by acquisition
• We have multiple products, on multiple platforms,
  multiple skills sets, multiple locations. You
  name it , we have it
• Quasar, long history with Mumps
• Internal external EAI issues

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• 24 November 2003 - Rhyme Systems launched
  following 20 million MBO of the UK operations
  software business of Misys Asset Management
  Systems

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10 years ago.
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The personal wealth asset management operation
environment
Functions, competencies and job roles
Can map to the super competency areas
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Integration in the 1990s

• High levels of manual input double keying
• Trade entry
• Asset servicing corporate actions, settlements
• Volume automation
• Market data
• Custodian interfaces
• Point to point - specific

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Best of breed v. integration

• EAI symptom of technological philosophical
  debate
• 10 years ago our products were expected to
  provide all functional elements
• Now customers will seek to implement best of
  breed, if they need to replace/remodel certain
  functional areas
• The best of breed v. integrated system debate
• Cheaper than replacing whole system?

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Integration now

• More consideration of risk
• Error rates manual input
• Automation streamlining business processes
• Standardisation options
• Middleware
• High capital investment high barriers to entry
  for middle/low tiers

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The Market demands.
Lower costs through.

• Increased Operational Efficiency
• Usability
• Greater accountability/flexible on demand
  information
• Matching regulatory and market practice change
• New business functions
• Business Process Outsourcing

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EAI scenarios

• Quasar core accounting, settlement
  administration system
• 3rd party
• Decision support
• Order management/trade execution/confirmation
• Corporate actions
• Reconciliations
• Client reporting

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• Advent of messaging and integration standards
• XML
• ISO15022
• FIX pre / post trade
• Spaghetti integration
• Different skill sets return on investment large
  capital base
• Basle II operational risk assessments

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Responding to the markets needs
The four cornerstones of the Quasar 6 Programme

• Functionality and workflow - to match the users'
  style of working by making available all system
  process as a collection of multi-tasking modules
  as opposed to the current menu driven, single
  workflow approach.
• Usability and intuitiveness - to create a system
  user interface design with maximum intuition and
  near-zero learning.
• System openness - to provide significantly better
  system and data openness, plus access and
  connectivity to systems and processes outside of
  Quasar.
• Evolution of technology - To equip and future
  proof the underlying Quasar technology platform
  to offer the new technical operating environments
  of today such as Secure Internet, Intranet and
  business operations outsourcing models.

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Quasar 6 - Usability and workflow
To this .
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Putting the Quasar 6 vision into practice
3 tiered technical architecture
Quasar 6
Quasar Open Access
Quasar Passport
? 3rd Party System ? Middleware
Quasar Connectors
Web Server (Java Server Pages)
Quasar Enquiries
Tier 1
TCP / IP
Quasar Query
Quasar 6 Business Logic
Tier 2
3rd Party Report Tools
Caché Database
SQL
Tier 3
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The future

• A swing back to integrated systems
• Rational integration
• Standards
• Business process remodelling

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Misys Asset Management Systems