Transoft helps TKS-Banking Solutions SA deploy SOA

1 December 2005 - Transoft, part of Business Solutions at CS Group, has transitioned the proprietary, monolithic banking software application of TKS-Banking Solutions SA to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). 

TKS-Banking Solutions SA, a provider of software applications for banks, was responding to the demand of its customers, for a more open software architecture for the product (ALPHA) that would make systems integration – of internal back office applications and internet banking applications - easier, cheaper and faster. It also wanted to be able to break its own application down into service modules that it could offer to its customers instead of the complete package.

Using Transoft Component Adapters, TKS-Banking Solutions SA integrated millions of lines of 4GL code from more than 8000 separate application modules, into Microsoft ASP.NET, a web services platform that provides a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). It did this far quicker than conventional application redevelopment techniques, saving time, money and reducing business risk.

 “Rewriting all that code would have taken years,” commented Carlo Marchesoni, Systems Architect at TKS-Banking Solutions SA. “Using Transoft Component Adapters we effectively layered SOA over the existing legacy application, eliminating the risk of changing our main product – we could never consider loosing all the knowledge and business logic that’s contained in our legacy code.”

 “The adapters also make evolving our applications to SOA much faster – this project took just three months.  Using Transoft’s tools and consultancy was much more efficient and less costly than if we’d have done this in-house.”

 Transoft Component Adapters work by creating a high performance and scalable real-time link directly with the legacy application's business logic delivering services into the new ASP.NET SOA environment. These adapters replace traditional screen scraping technology, which typically suffers from being a monolithic approach with poor performance and lack of scalability. 

 Geoff Baker, managing director of Transoft, commented, “Companies don’t want to rewrite their legacy code from scratch or replace it with packaged software just to integrate with modern technologies such as Microsoft .NET or Java/J2EE. Tools like Transoft Component Adapters now allow the retained legacy business logic and data to be delivered as high performance services within a SOA into new agile forms of delivery, better meeting the ever changing needs of the business."

TKS-Banking Solutions SA will begin rolling out its banking application based on a SOA architecture at the beginning of 2006.

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