CASE STUDY
Host Access Transformation Service (HATS)

Company Background

Samba Financial Group SJSC (formerly known as The Saudi American Bank), is a large banking firm in Saudi Arabia. The combined institution had 66 branches in the Kingdom. Its international operations consist of a branch each in London, Qatar and Dubai, as well as a subsidiary that has 28 branches across major cities in Pakistan.

Business Need

Bank application cannot exist in isolation; they need to be able to exchange data with other applications to maximize value.

Business Problem

• Samba bank consists of many systems, off-the-shelf applications, services, packaged apps (SAP, Siebel etc.) Web apps, devices, appliances, bespoke software and many more
• Systems expose interfaces using different protocols such as APIs, MQ, TCP/IP, database, HTTP, files, FTP etc. and with a myriad of standards based and custom data formats.
• Building connections point-to-point quickly deteriorates into spaghetti chaos, an inflexible architecture which is expensive to maintain and resistant to change.

Solution

Hubcom suggest IBM Integration Bus that’s connects these endpoints in meaningful ways

• Avoids rewrites in response to new integration requirements
• Simplifies maintenance by reducing expensive coupling
• Web-based interface to provide operational views of data published

Benefits

• A Proven, scalable and secure integration platform that delivers rapid, secure, scalable and reliable connectivity.
• Accelerate integration & promote best practices with pre-built patterns
• Built-in packaged application connectors
• Rapid integration with graphical tooling
• Standards-based data modelling aligns with Master Data Mgmt