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IT-LEAD PROJECTS: Financial Services

Credit Card Company: Introducing New Services to Market

IT Lead

Business Need:

  • One of the Latin-America divisions (country) wanted to introduce innovations to market more quickly to counteract competitive threats and provide more value to merchants and member banks

  • Develop IT infrastructure to support multiple types of transactions on the POS (point-of-sale) network

  • Open legacy systems and service-enable their existing platform to respond more quickly to business needs

Use Case:

  • Initial IT-led project for creating and implementing the SOA approach

  • Developed a services gateway to open and connect COBOL-based legacy systems to newer applications, using Tuxedo, WebLogic Integration and WebLogic Server

  • Enhanced POS network functionality to support cash and card-based bill payment by merchants

  • Created an Online portal customizable for customers, suppliers and stakeholders, using WebLogic Portal

Results: SOA Value Delivered

  • Shortened project development times and faster time to market – projects that used to take a year to complete now completed in three to six months

  • Maintaining 30% growth for the next 5 – 10 years and increasing revenue from new products

  • Higher customer satisfaction

  • Reduced costs for customers to use services

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