WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks

IBM WebSphere® Business Integration for Financial Networks is IBM's strategic infrastructure for financial payment messaging. This solution gives banks, stock exchanges, and other financial institutions a single platform for all of their communications channels. WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks offers a robust, reliable, and highly scalable messaging infrastructure that helps you simplify operations, consolidate resources and improve productivity through its centralized services. This standards-based platform enables you to build on current network technology investments as your business grows and adapts to changes in industry requirements and government regulations. This solution helps you protect your existing investments in IT infrastructure while providing a platform for centralizing your external communication needs.

WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks supports the following key capabilities (unless otherwise noted):

Communication channel connection and infrastructure services for improved operations
Enables communication channels and provides common infrastructure services such as message warehousing, security, event logging and communication channel administration, leading to simplified operations, improved productivity, and consolidation of resources.

Flexible, cost-efficient messaging
Establishes a flexible and cost-efficient integration foundation for financial messaging of any kind, enhancing customer service and improving customer retention.

Streamlined operations
Allows for central administration, operation, and monitoring of applications for reduced operational complexity.

New services
Enables banks to implement new services like SWIFTNet while maintaining their existing and trusted software.

• The standard offering enables large institutions to connect efficiently through a messaging hub to as many as three extensions;

• The Entry edition enables financial service institutions to cost-effectively connect to a single financial network extension.

An extendable solution
Provides an extendable and expandable solution based on WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker and DB2® software.