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Notiziario Marketpress di
Lunedė 03 Aprile 2000 |
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FIRST-E BANKS ON INPRISE APPLICATION SERVER
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Londra, Uk, 3 aprile 2000 Inprise Corporation (Nasdaq: Inpr) announced that first-e, Europe´s first Internet-only bank, is using Inprise Application Server 3, which includes Visibroker and Appcenter, in its core banking architecture. The new system is due to be deployed next month. First-e, the Internet bank, has been established with the aim of taking the lead in European Internet-based financial services. The rapidly growing online company provides Internet banking to consumers using infrastructure, software and services developed by factor-e, the banking technologies division of enba plc of Dublin. Inprise Application Server will form a key component in the technology underlying the next generation of services provided by factor-e. "In its first six months of operation, first-e the Internet bank has gained many customers in the United Kingdom. This phenomenal success meant that first-e needed to ensure its It infrastructure would continue to allow high service levels to customers long-term," commented Shane Colclough, chief technology officer of factor-e. "factor-e chose Inprise Application Server because of the scalability it offers, and Inprise Appcenter to ensure that first-e´s trading applications are available as close to 100 per cent of the time as is technically possible. " factor-e has already developed first-e´s brokerage engine using Borland Jbuilder 3. 0 Enterprise and will use Visibroker to deploy the bank´s trading application across the web. The trading engine needs to be able to instantly assess individual customers´ personal buying power, based not just on the value of their cleared funds, but on the value of their portfolio of stocks and shares at that given moment. As valuations of individuals´ creditworthiness are only valid for 20 seconds, due to the nature of web trading, the system needs to be robust enough to allow customers to buy shares in real-time over the web. "We view factor-e as a particularly innovative and prestigious Internet business. Being able to develop new web-based services rapidly is not just a nice-to-have, for factor-e it forms the bedrock of its business," commented Nigel Brown, managing director of Inprise Uk. "factor-e has already recognized the value of committing to Java to roll out web-based banking applications, and considered Inprise Application Server as the easiest way to develop to a future Ejb 1. 1 architecture. This consolidation of our partnership with factor-e demonstrates the growing acceptance of Inprise technology within the Financial Services sector. " factor-e selected Inprise after an evaluation of competing products. The fact that Inprise Application Server is based around Visibroker, the industry-standard Corba implementation, was a key consideration in the selection. Inprise provides the scalability that first-e required to handle the large volumes of customer transactions involved in running a web-based banking architecture. "factor-e´s relationship with Inprise is very much a technology partnership. We selected Inprise not only on the basis of their technology, but in addition for their professional services and round the clock support," added Colclough. "As first-e´s customers are working in Internet time, and expect access to the bank´s services at any time of the day or night, the bank simply can´t afford downtime on its applications. " first-e group plc is a subsidiary of Dublin based enba plc, a holding company incubating and establishing Internet only financial services businesses. First-e, the Internet bank ( http://www. First-e. Com ) is the result of a co-operation agreement between first-e group plc and Banque d´Escompte. First-e, the Internet bank, is a trademark used by Banque d´Escompte for banking services on the Internet enabled by technologies and infrastructure from an enba division called factor-e. Banque d´Escompte is a French bank, incorporated as a limited liability company, with a paid up capital of 37. 500. 000 euros. . |
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