Takarékbank Optimizes Performance of SOA Assets to Increase Reliability and Access to Services
 
 

Takarékbank Optimizes Performance of SOA Assets to Increase Reliability and Access to Services

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Takarékbank, the central bank of the Hungarian savings co-operative sector, provides savings, investments, and loan products to Hungary’s credit unions and savings cooperatives. The bank also offers comprehensive investment services, both directly and through agents, to private and corporate customers; and grants access to the international securities markets via these services.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Takarékbank Zrt.

  • "Through the expertise of Oracle Consulting, we were able to leverage the business value of our service-oriented-architecture assets to increase the efficiency and availability of online account services to our customers, while eliminating the risk of service disruption due to endpoint failures." – Rabatin József, Chief Information Officer, Takarékbank Zrt.

  • Ensure 100% service availability and rapid response times for customers who access their accounts online
  • Increase the number of destination service endpoints supported in line with growth in banking services provided to customers, without impacting performance
  • Centralize management of SOA-based, client-facing services to optimize reuse, decrease development costs, and streamline governance across the bank’s heterogeneous IT environment

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Retained Oracle Consulting to implement Oracle Service Registry, creating a universal description, discovery, and integration (UDDI) standards-based solution to assign processes, perform configuration settings, and automate routing between more than 40 endpoints
  • Leveraged Oracle Consulting’s skills to locate destination endpoints in SOA-based customer-facing services automatically and identify alternate endpoints if the targets are unavailable or responding slowly, to speed up service delivery
  • Gave customers rapid, reliable access to their online accounts
  • Eliminated common instances of configuration-related service failures by implementing Oracle Service Registry, to discover and bind deployed services and endpoints at runtime, which improved service resilience and performance
  • Consolidated SOA assets from all corporate sources into a single repository with secure, role-based visibility to restrict exposure of asset information to the appropriate project teams
  • Developed a taxonomy framework that complements bank structure and processes, creating an enforceable set of rules governing the use of SOA portfolio assets , which improved SOA governance
  • Achieved optimal scalability with the help of Oracle Consulting, reusing SOA components to build new services at the speed of business demand with minimal development costs