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Innovation through Mashups brings Accival Awarding Winning Recognition
Company Profile
Financial Services is one of the world's oldest professions, started about 5 seconds after the 1st coin was minted. Accival, the trading division of the largest diversified financial institution in Mexico, is one of the oldest in its market and one that is known for it's innovation. They were awarded the Most Innovative Company from Information Week Mexico. Along with SOA, green and business-alignment initiatives (we created a loose translation of the Information Week article describing their efforts and their award that can be found here). And they are into mashups in a big way.
The Challenge
Accival's goal was to provide real-time market information for their traders, sales force, and customers in order to make better buy/sell decisions. Like most organizations, the main impediment to this goal is disparity of the data sources including databases (often SQL Server), enterprise JavaBeans (via REST), and JMS queues (provided by Sonic). To make this happen, Accival designed an application called 'AcciFix' that provides direct orchestration between those data sources and an intranet application.
The JackBe Solution
AcciFix is a robust collection of mashups and Mashlets™. One Mashlet provides detailed information about an issuer selected by the user. The Mashlet connects to a JMS queue to return real-time issuer bids and orders. There is another Mashlet which provides information about issuers ups and downs, with some of the source information gathered via REST from an Java Enterprise Bean. There's yet another mashup that filters news-related information per issuer and one that lists issuers grouped by type of liquidity. (The screenshot is AcciFix with many of these mashups.)
Benefits
Overall, it's an impressive collection of mashups. In an industry where failure can be cataclysmic, this kind of constant, obsessive innovation should be viewed as business-critical.
- Improved execution of orders in the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV)
- More effective automated business processes
- Company-wide innovation using emerging technology targeted at the user