Replicate Securities Account Information

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Figure 1 — The Service Bureau Business Relationship with Banking Customers and End Users

Situation

A brokerage service bureau provides outsource services (Figure 1) for security account balance and trade history to its banking customers’ end users on two NonStop systems connected via Shadowbase Business Continuity in an Active / Almost-active architecture (Sizzling-Hot-Takeover, SZT) .

The service bureau needs to provide 24×7 access to the customers’ end users on a variety of devices. The service bureau also needs to provide an ad-hoc query and reporting capability to the customers’ end users, preferably on customer-managed platforms and databases.

Problem

For security reasons, the bureau did not want direct end user access to its NonStop-based database.
For performance reasons, the bureau did not want end user ad-hoc reporting to interfere with its NonStop-based applications.
For maintenance reasons, the bureau wanted to avoid managing the customers’ target platforms, databases, and environments.

Solution

Use HPE Shadowbase Data Integration to coexist with Shadowbase Business Continuity replication and integrate heterogeneous databases on separate platforms (Figure 2)
Leverages Shadowbase real-time “selective replication” for data transformation, filtering, and cleansing
- This replicates the data for each banking customer separately, and allows each banking customer to select the target platform and database from a list of supported platforms and databases

Figure 2 — The Service Bureau’s Data Integration Architecture

Outcomes

Integrates heterogeneous databases on separate platforms: each banking company selects its preferred target platforms and databases (e.g., Kafka, PostgreSQL, etc.)
Provides company hosted access and value-add processing: enables customers to provide access to their end users in their preferred target environment and enables value-add processing (new application features and benefits in the new target environment)
Improves the end user experience: with a modern interactive interface and ad-hoc query support
Enables load-balancing: allows the bureau to select either Primary or Standby as the source of the customers’ data changes based on loading

HPE Shadowbase Product of Interest

Business Continuity

HPE NonStop Shadowbase Business Continuity Basic Software (BE441AC/QSA49V6)
HPE NonStop Shadowbase Business Continuity Advanced Software (BE442AL/QSA50V6)
HPE NonStop Shadowbase Compare Software (BE445AC/QSA53V6)
HPE NonStop Shadowbase Essentials Software (BE446AC/QSA54V6)

Data and Application Integration

HPE NonStop Shadowbase Basic Data Integration Software (BE443AC/QSA51V6)
HPE NonStop Shadowbase Essentials Software (BE446AC/QSA54V6)
- (Since it was already included above, it is included here in case the customer wanted to do Data and Application Integration without using Shadowbase Business Continuity)
HPE Shadowbase Basic Application Software 1-8 core or 9+ core (WSA51V6T1/T2)