BrainCube - Reusable Services Framework & Architecture

Reusable Services Framework & Architecture

The Reusable Services Framework (RSF) from BrainCube is a library of component building blocks from which banking and financial solutions can be derived. The Reusable Services Framework is built entirely on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) delivering common, reusable services consisting of a comprehensive data model, financial business processes and configurable services including Security, Auditing, Common/Static Data Maintenance, System Administration, Workflow Runtime, Customer Management and many more.

Moreover, RSF-based solutions ship with a comprehensive Software Development Kit (SDK). The SDK changes the paradigm of a "buy vs. build" decision to a "buy and build".

From Reusable Services Framework, BrainCube has created defined solutions that include E-Banking & Multi-Channel Platform, Credit-Line Approval and Cheques Management.

Service-Oriented Architecture and Web-Services

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and web services express a business-driven approach to software architecture that supports integrating the business as a set of linked, repeatable business tasks, or “services”. Services are self-contained, reusable software components with well-defined interfaces and are independent from the consuming application; composite SOA applications can invoke services that may, and often will, run on an entirely different infrastructure.

RSF Solution Highlights

Enables the multi-channel approach and the cross-channel collaboration
Provide a consistent customer view across channels & systems
Enhanced and extended branch application functionality
Service creation and delivery (Write-once, Consume anywhere)
Centralized authorization and permission maintenance using Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supporting fully customized permissions, access control lists (ACLs, DACLs) and custom hierarchies (e.g. Organization Chart)
Helps to define the business process across systems (orchestration)
Windows Workflow Foundation enabled supporting visual workflow designer
Exhaustive Auditing/Logging and Tracing
Store and Forward (SAF) and transaction scheduling mechanisms available to all services, all channels
Supports “mode of operation” providing automating switching of back-end systems
Out of the box support of PIN generation and PIN mailers
Pluggable integration adaptors framework with configurable recovery and retry logic
SOA/WS-*, REST standards compliance (smooth interoperability with WebSphere, JBoss etc.)

RSF Technology

Clients
- Any type (Win32, Web-browser, PDAs, etc)
- Communication via open interfaces (SOAP/WS-*, REST)
Application Servers
- Support of large application farms and stateless dynamic load-balancing
- Based on proven .NET technology stack running on Win2003/IIS
Databases
- Any popular database (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySql, Sybase, etc)
- Cluster-aware Data Access Layers (DAL)
Security
- Using the latest WS-Security standards including WS-Federation
- Support of Digital Certificates, Digital Signing and One-Time Password (OTP) devices
- Encrypted communication between layers using SSL/TSL
Performance
- Very-large transaction throughput on the platform level using advanced techniques such as asynchronous auditing and logging, cached permission checks, etc.

Download the RSF & RSA brochure