WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks

IBM WebSphere® Business Integration for Financial Networks provides highly flexible integration platform for financial messaging.

Its centralized services help banks, stock exchanges, and other financial institutions to simplify operations, consolidate resources, and improve productivity.

  • Enables simple integration for financial business applications that require access to networks such as the SWIFT Secure IP Network (SIPN).
  • Provides a single window to SWIFTNet by offering SWIFT-qualified services for SWIFTNet, FIN, InterAct, and FileAct.
  • Enables common infrastructure services such as message warehousing, security, and event logging and centralizes administration, operation, and control.
  • Helps reduce the average cost per message by an order of magnitude through optimized automation and straight through processing.
  • Provides message management capabilities, such as Browser-based manual entry and repair facility, flexible routing capabilities, configurable printing service, and more.
  • Continues the IBM tradition of quality with more than 25 years of experience in trusted messaging and high volume transaction systems.

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Features and benefits

IBM WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks provides a SWIFT-qualified single window interface to SWIFTNet FIN, InterAct, and FileAct services, and is able to process high volumes of financial messages reliably. It offers a highly flexible integration platform for financial messaging based on industry-proven IBM middleware products such as DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere MQ, and WebSphere Message Broker. Its robust, reliable, resilient, and security-rich environment is designed to reduce complexity, risk, and operational costs by automating and centralizing message processing, operating, monitoring, and administration tasks.

WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks provides the following key capabilities.

SWIFT connection and infrastructure services for improved operations
Provides common infrastructure services such as message warehousing, recording of audit data, security, event handling and logging, reference data, common configuration, and SWIFTNet administration, leading to simplified operations, improved productivity, and consolidation of resources.

Flexible, cost-efficient messaging
Establishes a flexible and cost-efficient integration foundation for SWIFT messaging, enhancing customer service and improving customer retention.

Simple integration with business applications
Allows for simple integration with backend applications by offering extendible message routing.

An extendable solution
Provides an extendable and expandable solution which is based on WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ and DB2 software. It enables banks to implement new services based on SWIFTNet while maintaining their existing and trusted software. Recently added features include:

  • Message management capabilities for SWIFTNet FIN and MX messages, including message entry and repair, and printing

  • Consolidated SWIFT-qualified messaging service for SWIFTNet InterAct and FileAct

WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks is part of the Payments and Securities domain of the IBM Banking Industry Framework. The framework provides the software foundation for end-to-end banking solutions and speeds solution deployment with foundational and domain-specific software extensions, accelerators and best practice software implementation patterns.

System requirements

This page lists system requirements for WebSphere® Business Integration for Financial Networks V310.


Operating SystemSoftwareHardware
AIX IBM AIX®

IBM DB2 Universal Database™ (UDB) Enterprise Server Edition

IBM WebSphere Message Broker for AIX

IBM WebSphere MQ for AIX

IBM Java™ 2 Runtime Environment

WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks SWIFT Alliance Gateway Add-On requires the operating system of the SAG workstation to be one of the following:
- IBM AIX
- Solaris Operating Environment
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Each system on which a Message Entry and Repair Facility enterprise application runs requires IBM WebSphere Application Server

Each system that needs access to the Message Entry and Repair Facility requires Microsoft® Internet Explorer or Mozilla Filefox

For more details and specific version information refer to Planning, Installation and Customization Guide for Multiplatforms V31 on WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks Library website.		 Any vendor hardware explicitly compatible with and fully capable of running the specified operating system, the corresponding supporting software, and associated applications unmodified.

Processor
One of the following:
- IBM System p™
- RS/6000® processor machines
- IBM System i5™ (for AIX®)

WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit:
Microsoft Windows workstation.
For more details refer to WebSphere Message Broker System requirements.

SWIFTAlliance Gateway:
In addition to SWIFT Alliance Gateway (link resides outside of ibm.com) hardware the following is required for WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks SWIFTAlliance Gateway Add-On:
- 113 MB of disk space is recommended
- 30 to 100 MB of disk space for traces (depending on trace level)

Support for SWIFTNet FIN feature requires a LAN-based SWIFT HSM box. (USB HSM devices are not supported.)
z/OS z/OS Operating system

IBM DB2 Universal Database™ (UDB) for z/OS

IBM WebSphere Message Broker for z/OS

IBM WebSphere MQ for z/OS

IBM 31-bit SDK for z/OS, Java 2 Technology Edition

WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks SWIFT Alliance Gateway Add-On requires the operating system of the SAG workstation to be one of the following:
- IBM AIX
- Solaris Operating Environment
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Each system on which a Message Entry and Repair Facility enterprise application runs requires IBM WebSphere Application Server

Each system that needs access to the Message Entry and Repair Facility requires Microsoft® Internet Explorer or Mozilla Filefox

For more details and specific version information refer to Planning, Installation and Customization Guide for z/OS V31 on WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks Library website.		 Any vendor hardware explicitly compatible with and fully capable of running the specified operating system, the corresponding supporting software, and associated applications unmodified.

WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit:
Microsoft Windows workstation
For more details refer to WebSphere Message Broker System requirements.

SWIFTAlliance Gateway:
In addition to SWIFT Alliance Gateway (link resides outside of ibm.com) hardware the following is required for WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Networks SWIFT Alliance Gateway (link resides outside of ibm.com) Add-On:
- 113 MB of disk space is recommended
- 30 to 100 MB of disk space for traces (depending on trace level)

Support for SWIFTNet FIN feature requires a LAN-based SWIFT HSM box. (USB HSM devices are not supported.)

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