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Operational Data Store (ODS) Upgrade Project

FRAMETEXX accompanied and successfully supported one of their long-term clients as part of a T24 Upgrade and closely related Operational Data Store (ODS) Upgrade Project.
The client brought FRAMETEXX experts on board to ensure that the new T24 Release would work with FLink, DataBridge and Beehive and that all components of FRAMETEXX’s software portfolio would be adapted accordingly.

The upgrade of the existing installation from T24 R17 to R20 had been planned by the client in detail and due to the long-standing use of FRAMETEXX software FLink Integration Platform, DataBridge and Beehive the client took the opportunity to upgrade to the latest versions. For the integration of the services the client benefits a lot from the provider’s latest product improvements, which allow highest flexibility for triggering specific extraction tasks at different times during the COB. Additionally, an optimization of the Beehive ODS engine results in an enormous time-saving during staging process. The entire integration flow is covered by FLink workflows. In the course of the project also a switch from TAFC to TAFJ has been realized.

FRAMETEXX joined the project with qualified migration support services, which included the analysis of the existing FLink environment, the migration of DataBridge Classic to DataBridge Direct, adaptation of Beehive as well as Training and Project Communication.

Large scale Data Extraction

FRAMETEXX announces that is has successfully finished the support of its largest T24 Data Extraction Project until the date in cooperation with Capgemini Limited in the middle east region.

As part of the Records Management and Unified Information Governance strategy, a large bank in the middle east chose to safeguard the historical information from its large legacy systems such as T24 in a safe immutable governance platform to protect itself from audit, legal and compliance obligations. The programme had multiple complexities such as extracting information, building a safe data vault, designing hundreds of data visualisation reports and dashboards. Capgemini and FRAMETEXX entered a highly collaborative partnership to execute this programme resulting in efficient task allocation, optimised data extraction, and faster project execution. The mutual collaboration between both companies enabled the timely completion of the bank’s IT & business commitments and resulted in substantial cost savings.

“For the FRAMETEXX Team, this has been our largest data extraction project until date. The difference to the usual T24 data extraction projects was that all T24 tables from a multi-company environment needed to be extracted and archived. We really achieved this goal in time and to the complete satisfaction of the customer. This success is due to the excellent cooperation with the Capgemini Team during the entire project as well as to the use of the DataBridge.“ Rainer Weiss, Managing Director of FRAMETEXX, says.

“We assessed several market solutions that enable faster data extraction from large legacy systems like T24 with limited success. After thorough research, we found DataBridge from FRAMETEXX, the most suitable and flexible solution for our purpose of large scale extraction (i.e. 8TB). With DataBridge, we could extract a massive volume of information faster and in a meaningful manner. The utilisation of DataBridge reduced the time to go live while keeping our cost of extraction lower.”, Says Kathiravan Manoharan, Head of Insights & Data Practice FSI ASIA for Capgemini.

Capgemini strategically decides for DataBridge Direct

Capgemini Saudi Limited decided to use FLink DataBridge Direct for T24 data extraction in a customer project for a major bank.

In this project, that has already started, the DataBridge is used to extract data from a T24 core banking system with 30,000+ tables and to convert it into a relational format for archiving purposes. This will enable the bank to decommission their existing core banking system as they migrate into a new platform. The software has already been installed successfully, and FRAMETEXX has carried out extensive User Training for the Capgemini Team.

Capgemini and FRAMETEXX are considering a strategic cooperation that will enable the use of the provider’s software portfolio in further projects. The DataBridge has proven itself over many years and is used by FRAMETEXX customers around the world.

“This is one of the large scale conversion project to help our client for a successful decommission in a stringent timeline and we find FRAMETEXX suitable to our requirements.”
said Kathiravan Manoharan, Regional Lead – APAC & ME, Capgemini.

AS PrivatBank implements FLink Interfacing

AS PrivatBank Latvia plans to realize major interfaces between their T24 Core Banking System and 3rd party systems with FLink Integration Platform. During a 2-days Proof-of-Concept onsite at the bank in Riga, FRAMETEXX presented how efficient the software performs and met the expectations of the bank’s Team.

The bank and FRAMETEXX signed Contract recently, both Teams are looking forward to a successful cooperation.

Banque Raiffeisen Luxembourg

We welcome Banque Raiffeisen Luxembourg as our client and are proud to announce that the bank has chosen FLink DataBridge Direct (Snapshot/near-realtime).

After successful proof of concept, onsite at the bank in Luxembourg, Banque Raiffeisen and FRAMETEXX recently signed Contract.

FLink Product Suite is live at Citadele Banka Latvia

Major Latvian Bank realizes interfacing and data extraction with FLink and DataBridge

Riga, Latvia, September 2017 – Citadele Banka Latvia, member of Citadele Group, a full-service financial group for both private individuals and companies, successfully went live with FRAMETEXX’s product suite for interfacing and data extraction in September 2017.

Prior to the product launch itself, Citadele Banka and FRAMETEXX scheduled a two months pilot phase. Within this phase the Teams collaborated very closely to compile all possible fields of application of FLink product suite. The most important task was to identify how Citadele Banka’s requirements in interface development and data extraction could be eased and sped up by the FLink products.

Andrejs Nollendorfs, IT Projects Manager and T24 Expert at Citadele Banka says, “The result of this compilation phase was more than satisfying. We detected that we considerably benefit from applying the complete FLink product suite. We decided for FLink Interfacing and for the DataBridge. With FLink Interfacing we have a great solution to develop and build our interfaces. The DataBridge gives us more flexibility and significantly increases the T24 data extraction speed, compared to our previous solution .“

Citadele Banka was able to reschedule their extraction process from T24. The performance of the DataBridge allows to run the data extraction directly during the COB, so that post processing and data uploads to the DWH can be started as early as possible. Another major enhancements is that the extraction workflow is especially adapted to their multi-company environment structure.

The first interfaces to exchange collateral and enterprise valuation data between external systems and T24 have already been developed and successfully deployed into production.

“We thank FRAMETEXX for a perfectly organized FLink implementation. They provided very qualified and high level support during all phases of this project“ Andrejs Nollendorfs says.

Cooperation between FRAMETEXX and Reportum in essential T24 project

FRAMETEXX and Reportum, a Wolters Kluwer company, just signed an agreement to cooperate in an essential Temenos T24™ project at a Latvian bank. This strategical partnership will provide the customer the most efficient solution for data extraction available on the market.

FRAMETEXX’s DataBridge will extract the customer’s data out of the Temenos T24™ R14 system and feed the regulatory reporting system provided by Reportum. Project start is expected to be in October 2016.

The installation process of the DataBridge will be performed by FRAMETEXX Consultants on-site in Latvia during the first week. After successful installation and basic setup, FRAMETEXX supports the bank in fine tuning and finalization of DataBridge’s configuration.

DataBridge delivered for HP on Serbian market

The DataBridge enables HP Serbia to extract data from TEMENOS T24™ in order to feed HP’S BI-System. The software is fully integrated in pre- and post processing by using FLink’s workflow components for database, file and event connectors. Data for DB2 and MSSQL databases are extracted and loaded for multiple banks. ‘We are pleased that FRAMETEXX can help HP to replace their actual solution for data extraction by our DataBridge Module. The customer requested a solution that provides a short time to market in combination with high flexibility in the licensing model. This is exactly what we offer and deliver.’ says Olaf Kramer, Managing Director of FRAMETEXX. The DataBridge also met HP’s high performance criteria and set new standards for speed and performance by installing a multiple server architecture. This cuts the overall runtime for data extraction and normalization in half.

DataBridge on the Microfinance market in Africa

The necessity for BI-Systems has already arrived on the micro-finance market. The amount of banks and financial institutions in Africa that want to put a BI-System of their choice in place is increasing considerably. FRAMETEXX supports Opportunity International in Uganda to do so. By installing the DataBridge Module, the bank is now able to extract and to convert data from TEMENOS T24™ to a relational database. Due to the possibility to access the core data from the landing zone with SQL queries, the data can now easily be aggregated to provide it for the management dashboards. For Opportunity International, the DataBridge is a big step in-between. It is easy to implement and to run and it offers highest flexibility, even for smaller banks in the market.

FLink integration platform goes live at Aizkraukles Banka Latvia

Successful system integration: FLink orchestrates the data flow between Temenos T24™ and the bank’s payment system using its excellent ISO8583:1993 connectivity.

Riga, Latvia / Hamburg, Germany, April 2008 – FRAMETEXX GmbH, the provider of IT-Solutions in the T24  environment, announced that Aizkraukles Banka (AB.LV), a modern european bank for private business in Latvia, had a successful „GoLive“ with FLink on 31st March. FLink, FRAMETEXX`s integration platform for connecting T24 to external systems, guarantees the AB.LV an online and offline connection between their T24 system and their payment card system Cortex based on ISO 8583:1993. This T24-Cortex Interface receives a large number of various Payment Card transactions for the AB.LV via online connection, encodes them, produces T24 transactions and sendsback the result  to the Cortex system.

Established in 1993 as a bank that offers its clients high-class service of banking practice in Latvia, the AB.LV is now a bank for private business. Rolands Citajevs, CIO and Member of the Board, says: „We met representatives of FRAMETEXX at a fair in Bangkok in June last year. At that time we were looking for a reliable integration platform to connect our Cortex system, DWH and another systems in an efficient way to our T24 core banking system. Referring to this, the products of FRAMETEXX exceeded all our expectations.“

In a „proof of concept“, FRAMETEXX succeeded against all its competitors. After  installation and successful tests the AB.LV even signed a contract to be „Strategic Partner“ of FRAMETEXX, meaning that the bank enables FRAMETEXX to invite their potential customers to Riga and let them have an impression about how FLink works in practice.

Rolands Citajevs adds: “Because of the fact that we are convinced of the product we want to give other banks the opportunity to experience it in real. We are interested in development of FLink technology which really has great potential and will be happy to share our success with other banks“.

This successful „GoLive“ in Riga – configuring 6 complex interfaces  (Cortex, DWH etc.) took just 4 months, including analysis and user acceptance test. Rolands Citajevs lauded the whole process and the work of the company:

„FRAMETEXX delivered a firm and reliable product. Furthermore, it was a professional way of cooperation. The communication between our bank and FRAMETEXX has always been constructive and goal-oriented so that the project took place faster than we thought. I expect to reduce our costs of maintenance, because with FLink we are in a position not only to reduce the number of interfaces but also to simplify them and to make them more transparent. We are glad that we have choosen FRAMETEXX as a partner and FLink with all its components. I am a happy customer!“

The AB.LV builds several interfaces with FLink and plans to increase the number of interfaces, handled by FLink, in the near future. FLink is designed to suite the needs of any financial institution.