Company

ABN AMRO is a prominent international bank, its origins going back to 1824. It ranks seventh in Europe and fourteenth in the world based on total assets, with over 3,400 branches in more than 60 countries, a staff of 110,000 full-time equivalents and total assets of EUR 597.4 billion (as per 2001). ABN AMRO is listed on several exchanges, including the Amsterdam, London and New York Stock Exchanges.

Projects

CITA

We participated as key contributors to the Corporate Information Technology Architecture (CITA), a global initiative to develop a set of corporate architecture standards and methodologies that would increase system and development efficiencies.  Our primary  focus was on the development of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the selection of a set of middleware products, and the development of a Component Based Development strategy (CBD).

 

UME

We were the lead architects for the Unified Mortgage Environment (UME) project.  This was one of the first projects used to verify the CITA architecture and methodology.  We were responsible for mentoring the ABN AMRO staff  on proper Use Case development and UML modeling techniques as well as developing strategies for promoting component re-use.   

 

CashPro+

We were responsible for the design and implementation of the three-tiered infrastructure for the CashPro+ corporate cash management system.  CashPro+ supported stop payment requests, wires, and information reporting. The legacy systems included Hogan on an MVS mainframe and MoneyNet on  Tandem.  Complex transactions were developed by using the transaction flow capabilities of DOT/XM.  The infrastructure was  implemented using Orbix, MQSeries, RSA, and DOT/XM.  System and business models were developed using Booch and OMT methodologies.         

 

GTS INPACT

Responsible for the design of the middle-tier services for the GTS INPACT Accounts Receivable System. The system allows the Bank to out-source the customers’ Accounts Receivables. The system receives customer invoices and remitter information from an MVS systems and remittances from a UNIX system. This information is then inserted into a customer’s instance in an Oracle database. Reports generated by the Oracle system are sent to the MVS system for customer viewing. Administration, operations and customer support is provided by Java enabled applications on terminals that communicate via internal LAN with objects on the middleware server.

Technology