Product launch of Standards Integration Server
« Back to main newsLondon, March 26, 2001: Internet, XML technologies underpin breakthrough integration between TIB platforms and financial extranets and Web Services.
Trading Systems Associates, a leading consulting company specializing in providing solutions to complex financial markets technology problems, today released its Standards Integration Server, allowing integration between TIBCO-based trading systems and extranet and Web services application suites.
Using TS-Associates' SIS, financial services organizations with investments in TIB market data platforms can now leverage them to underpin their e-Commerce and extranet efforts, including planned Web Services-oriented institutional and retail trading and information portals.
In designing the SIS, TS-Associates has identified three key integration issues that face users with investments in TIB technology when they wish to expose those systems to wider audiences using Web technologies: data representation, messaging semantics and content transport.
In each integration area, TS-Associates has adopted industry standards to overcome integration hurdles:
- For data representation, SIS employs eXtensible Markup Language (XML) standards.
- For messaging semantics, SIS makes use of XML-RPC (remote procedure call) and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) technologies.
- For content transport, SIS leverages industry-standard HTTP protocols.
Said Henry Young, director of Product Strategy at TS-Associates: "A major part of our business over the last two years has been providing TIB integration solutions to our clients. We have built a range of gateways, adapters and API mappings covering just about every data management paradigm going. The rise of e-Commerce has accelerated requirements in this area. More recently, we decided that we only wanted to solve this problem one more time. By taking an standards based approach, we have swept away all legacy barriers to TIB systems integration for Web Services."
TS-Associates has designed the SIS so that it will support the planned integration of TIB and Reuters technologies, resulting in the Trading Solutions Architecture (TSA). Thus, financial services firms with investments in current TIB or Reuters trading platform technology will benefit from a unified solution for exposing those technologies beyond the firewall.
TS-Associates can be contacted here.
