Heliograph Message Broker
Financial message volumes and their complexity continue to increase and threaten to overload your system and staff resources. A simple ‘more hardware, faster processors, more memory’ solution will no longer get the job done.
The answer to this problem is the HelioGraph Message Broker Application
Message Broker is a powerful yet easy to implement middleware application meeting the key requirements for message management. It eliminates data-flow conflicts between internal and external systems and communication needs - the solution to attain a high level of STP message and data processing.
Keeping your message simple
Business diversification, strategic partnerships, mergers, complexity of systems and communication problems, coupled with more stringent industry legislation have increased the complexity of data processing. Different standards, different priorities in time and processing sequence, pressure to improve performance without adding to costs, and the need to process millions of transactions have created the demand for improved messaging systems to achieve straight-through processing.
The HelioGraph Message Broker meets these goals. By delivering a simple STP solution it eliminates the costly and time consuming activities previously necessary.
A complete messaging solution
Helio Message Broker is a messaging workflow system that provides all of the tools needed to reduce the expense, time and effort of establishing the message flow between different applications. It enables messages to be received, formatted and routed to other systems for onward processing. Messages can be received from and delivered to multiple systems, each of which can have its own business processing rules.
Comprehensive message libraries for all of the leading standards such as SWIFT and FIX are included to automate and accelerate message handling. HelioGraph products operate with all databases, applications and messaging backbones.
The components plug into heterogeneous computing environments to perform complex business rules, construct intricate financial messages, reformat messages generated by other systems and intelligently route messages throughout the entire enterprise.
Message Broker key capabilities
- Supports external libraries, such as FIX, SWIFT, CREST, ISITC, Euroclear, etc.
- Comprehensive set of connectors to databases, SWIFT interfaces, MQSeries, MSMQ, etc.
- Ease of use, implementation and maintenance
- Object-oriented message definition
- Dynamic formatting & syntax validation
- Field enrichment
- Access to every message sub-field
- Content based routing
- Extensive rules support
- Event and business rules driven
- Automatic conversion to XML for web-enabled applications
The Helio Message Broker Components
The Helio Message Broker is designed as complete solution to allow businesses to meet the challenge of connecting systems efficiently and to keep pace with rapidly evolving business demands. It comprises a number of components designed to the specific technical or operational needs for full STP achievement :
- Helio Processor, a powerful tool to automate financial message handling and connectivity between systems and external financial networks.
- Helio Editor provides the functionality and tools for users to prepare, validate, repair and review messages in any Windows application, whether custom-built message templates or standard forms supplied with the product.
- HelioIDE, the Integrated Development Environment that simplifies integration by providing a comprehensive set of point-and-click, wizard and drag-and-drop facilities with all the tools business analysts need to configure and integrate their messaging applications.
- HelioSWIFT library, providing users with a complete set of tools to generate SWIFT messages quickly and accurately and also to translate incoming messages into your current formats. Changes in business rules can be supported by an update to the library rather than each individual application. Messages will always be compatible with other systems without any intervention during their subsequent processing.
- HelioSSI can update multiple back office systems in real-time as and when new SSI's are received. In conjunction with SWIFT Directory Services, HelioSSI provides an ideal mechanism for banks and institutions to exchange critical information such as SSI's in a secure and reliable manner, and to automate their data maintenance.
The Helio Message Broker - complete functions for full STP
* Translation * Formatting * Validation * Parsing * Rendering
Helio Message Broker has the SWIFT Gold Label and is one of the products selected by S.W.I.F.T. for its Securities Reformatter Programme which it promotes to its members.
Your business benefits
- Simplifies straight-through-processing and back-office connectivity
- Allows to immediately meet the challenge of connecting systems efficiently
- Automated message creation from business data removes manual data entry errors
- Supports rapid and easy implementation, simplified maintenance and low cost of overall ownership
- Based on rules with limitless complexity, including from external databases such as payment limits or credit ratings
- Performs all message formatting requirements in complex heterogeneous computer environments
- Automated data maintenance for multiple back-office systems, with SWIFT Directory Services
- Fast and easy compliance with recommendations from regulators and user groups
- Improves significantly the match rates of automated matching engines
- Reduces the number of misdirected transaction instructions as well as operational settlement risk
- Exceptionally user friendly with point-and-click, wizard and drag-and-drop facilities
- Full SWIFT syntax support and validation, updated with SWIFT releases
- Field help texts, conditional field rules, and field look-ups linked to internal systems
- Internal systems integration - reformat and publish information from databases or applications