Project Overview

The project was implemented to meet the following challenges:

1. Design and implement a unified data warehouse based on the standard industrial model with a degree of customization up to 30 percent.
2. Implement the algorithms of data upload from the accounting systems of the bank and external sources to the corporate data warehouse in line with the methodology of managerial accounting. To provide a possibility of performing adjustments.
3. Implement the approaches of data cleansing and quality control, as well as business rule verification
4. Build theme–based data marts designed to analyze general ledger data, loan portfolio, managerial accounting, and performance of the network of self–service banking equipment
5. Implement a business glossary of banking terms
6. Develop more than 90 scheduled reports covering the tasks of management reporting and reporting to the parent company and regulators.

Solution

IBA is working as a part of the development team. The IBA responsibilities include requirement analysis; application design; database design, application development; unit, functional and system testing; quality assurance; and support.

The first ten stages of the project were finished on time with excellent references from the customer.

The eleventh stage, namely the enhancement of the application is currently underway.

Project Results

The application was deployed to production in line with the schedule. IBA received excellent references from the customer.

Challenge

The customer aimed to test feasibility of a cognitive automation technology for its business processes. The pilot business process consisted in validation of the tax amount charged in a vendor contract. Tax rates vary for different groups of vendors and are defined in the customer’s database.

Process Requirements

1. Achieve overall business process accuracy of 98 percent
2. Reduce manual time spent on one process by 50 percent
3. Train and support customer’s team to build automation for an SAP case.

Project Overview

The project is aimed at the design, development, testing and support of the Approver Maintenance Application (AMA). The application is designed to streamline updates to the approval process for purchasing requisitions. AMA has been launched to provide an easy process to maintain data in our customer’s purchasing systems.

Solution

IBA is working as a part of the development team. The IBA responsibilities include requirement analysis; application design; database design, application development; unit, functional and system testing; quality assurance; and support.

The first ten stages of the project were finished on time with excellent references from the customer.

The eleventh stage, namely the enhancement of the application is currently underway.

Results

The application was deployed to production in line with the schedule. IBA received excellent references from the customer.

Project Overview

The goal of the project is to support a comprehensive assessment tool for DB2 product customers as well as enhance and develop the product itself. The product is designed to optimize efficiency of a DB2 database on z/OS.

Solution

The IBA activities include L2 Customer Support, L3 Change Team, and Test Team. Getting involved in the project more than six years ago, IBA Group developed strong partnership with client teams that are engaged in major product design and development. Presently, IBA is maintaining several major product releases.

Project Overview

IBA provides support for a number of customer applications including:

1. Extranet n-Tier B2B application designed to automate the development of distribution programs allowing our business partner to manage the growth in demand within a distribution channel. As a result, both internal and external users (customers) are able to utilize and process efficiently the data that are distributed between various sources.
   Internet n-Tier B2C application designed to provide warranty support to the users of our partner’s hardware.
2. Extranet B2B web application that supports warranty returns by OEMs, distributors and resellers (Return Material Authorization). The application is ultimately flexible and easily customizable to the needs of each specific user.
3. A number of intranet applications that perform a range of functions for more than 18,000 users worldwide. These are applications like company-wide employee directory, employee CADP (Contribution Assessment and Development Plan) tracking, hardware deployment tracking, and etc.

All extranet and internet applications are implemented using the MVC (Model Viewer Controller) model. The front-end of the systems is using JSP, Java Servlets, DHTML, and Struts technologies and is hosted on IBM WebSphere four server cluster. The business logic is implemented using the EJB. Data between different application tiers flow in XML format using IBM MQSeries (JMS) as transport. IBM DB2 UDB cluster is used as a data storage system. The system interacts with SAP R/3 as a back end. All intranet applications are built on Vignette Application Portal.

Project Overview

The project was designed to migrate the Material Procurement System (MPS) of our client to an up-to-date software platform. MPS is an IT system that supports all processes in the purchasing environment of our client.

Its features include:

1. Process all customer requirements
2. Provide purchasing agents with information about automotive markets, parts, suppliers, prices, and business terms
3. Relieve purchasing agents from routine jobs
4. Perform analysis and generate reports
5. Calculate revenues and savings
6. Generate cost structures
7. Compare negotiation targets with actual business results
8. Control negotiation progress between purchasing agents and suppliers.

The legacy system was implemented using the programming language Smalltalk from CINCOM. One of the challenges was the absence of documentation (functional specifications and documented test cases) for the legacy system. The task was to migrate MPS to Java 3-tier architecture and create up-to-date documentation (use-case model and documented test cases).

The new application needed to meet the following requirements:

1. Use Java EE technology
2. Provide the same functionality as the legacy application with additional functional features
3. Function with the legacy database and be able to use the same database concurrently with the legacy MPS
4. Provide multi–language support including hieroglyphic (Japanese).

Project Overview

The Supplier Relationship Management Solution is built on the powerful SAP NetWeaver platform that allows for integration and coordination of personnel, information, and processes at all technological and organizational levels.

SAP NetWeaver facilitates interaction, harmonizes information, and provides comprehensive data analysis. Using SAP NetWeaver, it is possible to perform many processes in the background mode, exchange large and complicated documents, and automatically archive all operations.

IBA has implemented its Mobile Banking System in Bank. The IBA Mobile Banking enables holders of plastic cards issued by Bank to make payments and retrieve banking information via mobile phone, smartphone or PDA at any point of the world 24 hours a day.

To make a card account mobile, a customer only needs to install a corresponding application to his/her mobile phone. The Java application is a software shell for the IBA SMS Banking System providing a convenient intuitive interface to IBA SMS Banking services.

The user is able to:

• Receive information about changes in the account balance
• Perform payments for public utilities, mobile services, as well as services of internet providers and cable TV
• Block the card in case of loss
• Receive news and updates online via GPRS channel
• Cancel SMS Banking service.

KEY ISSUES

The goal of the project was to develop a mobile client to simplify processing and approving of documents at a large–scale organization. The client should be closely connected with a backend document workflow system based on IBM FileNet.

In addition, it should bring to end users new instruments for working with corporate documents, including operations in offline mode, a flexible business process model, and a comprehensive commentary mechanism.

KEY ISSUES

To prepare financial reporting, the bank’s employees process 500 types of files. The data in the files is the same entity when it is loaded into the corporate system, but is called differently.

The goal of the project was to reduce manual processing of documents to standardize the data. At the beginning there are only a few experts who know where and what data to retrieve.

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