Overview
Banque Misr was the leader bank in Egypt in applying Information Technology for all bank activities. The bank automation, started in 1978 with Core Banking and Branch Automation for Cairo and Alex branches, connected by private leased network, followed by ATM network all over Egypt (1982 -1990), Upcountry (1989) and Islamic (1992) branches, Card Center automation (1990), Phone Banking (1992), Internet Banking (1998)... etc . This resulted in many heterogeneous non-integrated systems forming islands of information, causing the following constraints:
- No on-line inter-branch transactions.
- No consolidated customer view.
- No on-line consolidated bank position.
- Different level of branch services.
- No standard in adding new integrated services
To overcome these constraints, the objective was to connect all branch applications in 440 branches distributed allover Egypt thus availing on-line inter-branch transaction service to all Banque Misr customers and providing consolidated data of all branches. The required solution should be:
- Simple and easy to maintain
- Re-usable
- Provide audit and control
The challenge was to achieve the above objective, while protecting the bank investment by keeping the current applications, and completing the project in 3 months (before end Sept. 2003). The middle-ware technology chosen was Oracle 9i Hub & Spoke, which achieved all above objectives while providing standard in adding new integrated service.
eT3 Role in the Project
- Project Management & Follow up
- Availing test environment :
- Designing Hub configuration and routing
- Designing centralized DB
- Developing JAVA custom adaptors in the Hub
- Writing SQL stored procedures to support DB and AQ (advanced queuing) adapters
- Developing custom spokes ( C language) for different applications:
- Cairo & Alex centralized branches monitored by BEA TOPEND
- Upcountry branches developed in COBOL
- Islamic branches (Oracle 8.06 & developer 2000)
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