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KEYBENEFITS

CASE STUDY – FINANCIAL SERVICES

SOLUTION

RESULTS

SERVICES

Sterling Connect:Enterprise to Sterling File Gateway Migration Increasedsecuritywithminimaltradingpartnerdisrup4on

•  Providemoresecurefiletransferop4onstocustomers

•  Decreasethe4metoonboardnewtradingpartners

•  Minimizeimpactofsystemmigra4ontoexis4ngtradingpartners

largeUSbasedBankneededtoprovideitstradingpartnerswithnewer,more

securefiletransferalterna4veswhilemaintainingitsexis4ngconnec4vityop4ons,includingIBMSterlingConnect:Direct(C:D).

TheBankalsowantedtoreducethe4meittooktoonboardnewtradingpartnerssotheycouldtransactbusinessmorequickly.

Thismeantreplacingthebank’soutdatedIBMSterlingConnect:Enterprise(C:E)environmentwhichwasunabletosupport

IBMSterlingFileGateway

•  Significantlyreducedtradingpartneronboarding4me

•  Eliminatedneedforthirdpartymappingtool

•  Leveragedexis4ngSterlingConnect:Directenvironmenttominimizetradingpartnerdisrup4on

•  Systeminstalla4onandconfigura4on

•  Tradingpartnermigra4on A

Withover200exis4ngtradingpartners,oneofthebank’skeyconcernswasminimizingtheimpactofasystemmigra4ononthosetradingpartners.

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newertransferprotocols.

Withover200exis4ngtradingpartners,oneoftheBank’skeyconcernswasminimizingtheimpactofasystemmigra4ononthosetradingpartners.

Securetransac9onprotocolsTheBankselectedIBMSterlingFileGateway(SFG)toreplaceC:E.SFGsupportsnewerprotocols,including:•  SFTP•  FTPS•  HTTPS•  MQ

Toimplementthenewsystem,thefirststepwasacurrentenvironmentandtradingpartneranalysis.

EnvironmentanalysisTheenvironmentanalysisenabledustodesignthemostappropriateenvironment(inthiscase,aclusteredenvironment),tosupportthebanksfailoverandloadbalancingrequirements.Italsoenabledquickerthroughputoftransferdata.

TradingpartneranalysisAnalysisofthetradingpartnershelpedusdeterminewhatbusinessprocesswouldberequired.Wheneverpossible,westandardizetradingpartnersoncommonbusinessprocesses,whichreducesthenumberofprocessesthatneedtobemaintainedover4me.

Thispar4cularmigra4onwassignificantlysimplifiedbecause80%oftheBank’strading

80%ofthebank’stradingpartnersusedC:D.Thissimplifiedthemigra4onandenabledustomovetradingpartnerstothenewenvironmentmorequickly.

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partnersusedC:D.Thisletusmovetradingpartnerstothenewenvironmentmorequickly.

Installa9on,configura9onandimprovedtransferefficiencyAXerinstalla4onandconfigura4onofthenewSFGenvironment,wecreatedmapstosupporttradingpartnerfileformats.

AsSFGcontainsitsownbuiltinmappingtool,anaddedbenefitofthemigra4onwasthatthebanknolongerneededit’san4quatedthirdpartymappingtool.

TheBankalsohadseveralcustomC:Eshellscripts.While20%neededtobeconvertedintocustombusinessprocessesinSFG,theother80%wereaccommodatedusingtheSFG'sdefaultbusinessprocesses,whichstreamlinedmigra4on.

Wealsocreatedcustom,moreefficient,businessprocessestomovefiles,executethemaps,andprovide4ghterbackendintegra4on.Thenewbusinessprocessesautoma4callytransferredfilestotheappropriatebackendsystem(e.g.,z/OS,iSeries)uponreceipt.

Next,wesetuptradingpartnersinSFGandmigratedthemtothenewenvironment.Thetwosystemsraninparallelun4lthemigra4onwascomplete.

ReducedonboardingOneofthebenefitsofSFGisthatitautomatesmanyofC:E’smanualprocesses.Infact,thefollowingstepswerecompletely

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eliminatedfromtheonboardingprocess:•  Crea4onofshellscriptsdirectly4edto

daemonsforeachtradingpartner•  Crea4onofmailboxforeachtrading

partner.

ThisenabledtheBanktosignificantlyreducetheamountofworkand4meinvolvedinonboardingnewtradingpartners.

MinimalImpactInkeepingwiththeBank’sgoaltominimizeimpactofthemigra4onontheirtradingpartners,thesystemwasconfiguredsuchthattheonlyworkthetradingpartnershadtodowasupdatetheIPaddressandport.

Weconductedthetes4ngwitheachtradingpartner.Sometookaslijleasanhour.Wealsocompletedcustomiza4onsforthosetradingpartnerswithenhancedsecurityrequirements.AXer3months,tes4ngwascompletewithalltradingpartners.

Theendresult?TheBankisnowabletotransactbusinesswiththespeedandsecurityexpectedofa21stcenturyfinancialins4tu4on.

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