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Efficient Mainframe Integration – The Backbone for Multi- Channeling and New Distribution Concepts in the Fund Business

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公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
  • Europe
  • America
  • Asia
  • Middle East
国家
  • Germany
产品
  • IKS investment account service
  • Investment Account manager 2000
  • webmethods EntireX
技术栈
  • .NET
  • Adabas
  • Natural
实施规模
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Cost Savings
技术
  • 应用基础设施与中间件 - API 集成与管理
适用行业
  • 金融与保险
适用功能
  • 销售与市场营销
  • 商业运营
用例
  • 供应链可见性(SCV)
  • 需求计划与预测
服务
  • 系统集成
  • 软件设计与工程服务
关于客户
DWS Investments is the mutual fund arm of Deutsche Asset Management. Founded in 1956, DWS’s activities span not only the European markets. Over the last few years, the DWS Investments brand has been rolled out to cover countries and products across the Americas, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. DWS has outstanding expertise in all of Europe’s core markets. Its international network enables it to identify market trends at an early stage and swiftly translate them into investment ideas. By bringing the right products to market at the right time, DWS turns current market conditions into investment opportunities. As the European market leader in the public fund business with administered assets of more than €120 billion and more than four million customers, DWS Investments is a major player in the finance and investment industry.
挑战
All direct trading operations at DWS are conducted via its IKS investment account service. As Europe’s largest supplier of public funds, DWS has been handling all necessary customer and account management since the late 1980s with an Adabas- and Natural-based mainframe application. In the late 1990s, DWS put its entire It landscape, including this essential application, to the test. the need for action arose in particular because of insufficient integration of the different It systems. A need for modernization was quickly identified in the IKS department, DWS’s internal distribution channel for the funds trade. Over the years, a number of isolated solutions with only limited interaction capabilities had emerged. The mainframe application was developed with Adabas and Natural in the late 1980s for central customer and account management. It was distressing that marketing and distribution applications, such as call center and document management, could only access the mainframe application via workaround solutions or, in some cases, could not access it at all.
解决方案
For IKS, DWS has built an integrated and open-software architecture, called Investment Account manager 2000. the core Adabas/Natural application is seamlessly integrated within this .NEt-based multilayer architecture via webmethods EntireX. DWS employees, customers, and partners are all using this basic application in real time, no matter which communication channel or solution they use to do business with DWS. At the beginning of the project, it was questioned whether the Adabas/Natural mainframe application should continue to operate. However, there was no doubt of its effectiveness in the matters of technical functionality, stability, and performance, even when processing mass data. “We had been running the solution for eleven years already, so we were not sure how we could integrate this operational settlement system into our new architecture,” said Dunkel, explaining the critical point: IAM2000 is based on Microsoft technology, at first Transaction Server, and .NET since 2002.
运营影响
  • High-performance, reliable management of 4 million investment accounts
  • Consistent support for multi-channeling, including Internet business with end users and partners
  • No redundant data management required for Internet transactions
  • Quick and cost-efficient implementation of new projects thanks to reuse of existing It components
数量效益
  • Time-to-market advantage of approximately 1.5 years in the provision of a DWS fund platform developed for distribution partners

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