Xerox Capital Services (XCS)
XCS is a joint venture between GE Capital Vendor Financial Services and Xerox.

Business Problem
1) Xerox Capital Services needed to improve the process of obtaining information to review, inspect, approve and pay invoices. This process needed to enable invoicing through multiple channels.
2) An additional process needed to be developed to conduct credit analysis for Xerox customers. The way the existing application interfaced with external credit reporting agencies was through batch feeds and they needed to be redesigned so that credit decisions could be done in real-time.

Solution
XCS and GE did not want to rewrite the existing applications to communicate with the external invoicing and Credit reporting companies. A design to use WebSphere Message Broker architecture was implemented to format and route the request messages to the appropriate destinations and then format the responses back into the requestor’s user database.

Impact
XCS was able to interface their existing applications to the WebSphere MQ Hub to allow a quicker rollout compared to rewriting their existing applications. By using the WebSphere Message Broker Hub and Spoke topology, WebSphere MQ Queue Manager Clustering and Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) configuration, XCS was able to implement a truly Highly Available and robust architecture. New interfaces can be seamlessly added to the architecture with minimal effort. With the Queue Manager Clustering and VCS configuration, upgrades at both the Operating System and application level can be performed without impacting the availability of the environment.

Technologies Utilized
• WebSphere MQ
• WebSphere Message Broker
• Custom HTTP/S Java Message Broker Node
• Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)

The Anything to Anything Project

Business Problem
It is a growing dilemma in today’s world – more and more information is gathered by remote resources like sensors, consumer data, cell phones, web usage, etc. Making it useful has become the business problem of today, and of the future. It is often unclear as to how can you use your data for a competitive advantage.

Solution
There are many sources of data that can help business processes and improve your results. Getting it, and making it useful is the key. We first identify the data you need, gather it together and make it so that you can store the data and still maintain a pipeline to the source.
By transforming the data into usable forms and applying expert knowledge (via an interface), the data is made useful and loaded with the business rules that you need to utilize it as a decision-making tool.

Impact
Now that you have access to useful data, that means that automated applications, your analysts, subject matter experts, managers, and decision makers can send alerts, run scenarios, and give approvals that will directly assist in the determination of future paths for your business.

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