Platform Modernization – A Case Study April 1,
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Description: Platform Modernization A Case Study April 1 2010 THIS PRESENTATION IS MEANT FOR ONLY THE INTENDED RECIPIENTS ANY REVIEW USE DISSEMINATION DISTRIBUTION OR COPYING OF THIS DOCUMENT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED 2010 Symphony Services Corp
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Platform Modernization – A Case Study April 1, 2010 THIS PRESENTATION IS MEANT FOR ONLY THE INTENDED RECIPIENTS. ANY REVIEW, USE, DISSEMINATION, DISTRIBUTION, OR COPYING OF THIS DOCUMENT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED 2010© Symphony Services Corp. and Misys Plc | Proprietary & Confidential 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Contents 2 Platform Modernization Background Business Drivers Short and Long-term Goals Technical Challenges and Proposed Solutions Work Done-to-date Lessons Learned 3 Background Symphony Services Provider of product engineering outsourcing services Over 3000 employees serve 150+ customers in multiple countries Focus on ISVs, embedded systems, and engineering services Misys – Our Client Provider of application software and services to the financial services and healthcare industries Over 6,000 employees serve customers in 120 countries 3 Divisions - Banking, Treasury & Capital Markets (TCM), and Healthcare (Allscripts) Symphony has been working with TCM division on modernization of a trading platform (application) called Summit 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Summit Background Summit is a multi-asset class solution for treasury and capital market participants Integrated front-to-back office solution Distributed CORBA-based application developed in C, C++, and .Net. Large monolithic application – 12.7 million LOC Summit has been developed over a period of 20 years Technology base is becoming outdated (ex. CORBA) Issues with Performance and Scalability Desire to modernize Summit to remain technologically competitive 5 5 5 5 Summit Architecture External Data Source Real time Feeds Sybase / Oracle / SQLServer Summit “Classic” Applications External Client Apps (Java, Excel, C++, VB, etc) Real Time Servers Position Servers STP Servers CORBA or SOAP Direct function calls Distribution Server CORBA CORBA Problem with Scalability Single point failure possibility High memory footprint & slow start up Heavy I/O load 6 6 6 6 6 Summit Modernization Business Drivers Improve user experience Improve interoperability Enhance performance, scalability, and reliability Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) 7 7 7 Summit Modernization Short-term Goals 8 8 8 Summit Modernization Long-term Goals Componentize Summit Make components interoperable Performance enhancements Eliminate performance problems due to single threaded STK Eliminate scalability issues with risk server Provide an alternative to distribution server Make Summit easy to install and upgrade Migrate away from C, C++, CORBA over time Priorities Componentize Make components interoperable – Leverage SOA Leverage Grid Computing Leverage JMS-MoM 9 9 9 Meeting Long-term Goals Technical Challenges 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Meeting Long-term Goals Proposed Solutions 11 11 11
