SUNGUARD QUANTUM

Projects

• Engineering of near real time cash transaction interfaces with Sunguard Quantum

• Treasury department is notified automatically and in near real time of cash effects resulting form dealing activities
• Greater accuracy in cash requirements forecasting and currency exchange planning
• Improved client reporting and performance management
• Automated support for cash accounting mechanisms in an auditable and controlled manner

• Transactions are transformed and the interface is intelligent when dealing with updates form source applications
• The interface maintains a log of previous messages and their actions to ensure that messages are presented with the appropriate insert update or delete action
• Built-in intelligences ensures that: incoming transactions have valid international calendar dates based on the calendar within Quantum, all transaction types are mapped to Quantum instruments, and other Quantum reference values - greatly reducing message failures
• Message passing is contained within an assured delivery process written in Java
  
• Extracts from Quantum of positions and cash flow data have been are based on some bespoke, Sunguard approved, transparent logging triggers without interference with standard Quantum processing

• Log tables indicating new data and changes that are awaiting extract are maintained and then overnight extract routines compile and extract the required data
• Position and valuation extracts export data to a data hub repository
• Cash accounting mechanisms supported in an auditable and controlled manner without reverting to the use of spreadsheets

• Quantum’s proprietary QID message format and interface polling mechanism
• PL/SQL based data transformation routines
• Java

• Sound understanding and experience of the business requirements
• Expertise and ingenuity allowed seamless integration of a product set not aimed at message based integration services
• Experienced in integrating packages not originally designed to be incorporated in a message based technical integration architecture
• Utilised the built in ‘soft’ rules engine incorporated in the software to make adjustments and adaptions to client processing easily and quickly.
• Maintenance and evolution of the software is well catered for in the original structured design, the use of CASE technologies and the adoption of best practice industry standards
• Intelligent automation solutions providing exceptional reliability
• On call, on-site support for developed technologies