Three-year
old and ongoing migration and extension of mainframe application
to a Web Based Global Energy Trading System involving over 9000
traders in Connecticut.
The application allows traders to transact in all spot, futures,
forward, and swap contracts for a range of energy related products
worldwide. It also performs complete financial accounting and
risk management functions, and facilitates customers’
Web based tracking of their portfolio positions and risk management.
Personalization functions also include customized ticker information,
news, and access to public market data and transactions.
Development of a new Web-based energy trading module utilizing
XML and XSL, COM+ components, SOAP components and Java applets.
Integrating the trading system with real-time market data servers
for commodity trading.
Activities performed included the development of test plans,
hosting and deployment plans, configuration management, and
system optimization.
The extension of the mainframe system was built using COM+,
Java, ODBC, OLEDB technologies and standard APIs for accessing
enterprise data-sources.
APIs were developed for integrating the trading system with
a broad range of corporate data-sources from such ERP packages
as SAP and Oracle 11i.
Techna’s current onsite team continues to maintain the
system while incrementally adding and modifying functionalities
and fine tuning its performance.
This project adds to Techna’s earlier expertise acquired
from a multi-year engagement with Knight Ridder in Hong Kong
to create and operate one of the first client-server trading
and portfolio management systems in the world. |
Galileo
was establishing business relationships with providers of leisure
goods, entertainment offerings and additional travel applications,
and integrating those applications as integral parts of its
services portal, which is based on a portfolio of Galileo (local)
and partner (remote) applications.
Aside from the necessary business relationships it needed
to establish, Galileo realized before it could address integrating
external applications it must first address its own data aggregation
process within its GDS. To this end, Galileo:
a. Unveiled XML Select, a structured data application programming
interface that allows third parties to create booking engines
and server-based applications.
b. Embraced the IBM TravelFrame offering of business objects
as a framework of Web service enabled components that can
interact with Galileo's XML Select, a structured data application
programming interface that allows third parties to create
booking engines and server-based applications. By embracing
TravelFrame, Galileo is using open industry standards to ease
the integration needs for potential Galileo travel agents
customers.
At its core, TravelFrame provides customers with a set of
services that enable the development of e-business applications
for the travel industry. The target market for TravelFrame
includes, but is not limited to, airline companies, travel
agents, travel portals, as well as hotels and car rental companies.
Techna helped IBM design the middleware based platform for
Galileo and then performed a series of services to extend
the original mainframe apps and maintain the middleware version.
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