Nomura Research Institute Selects TSI Software's Mercator for
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Nomura Research Institute Selects TSI
Software's Mercator for S.W.I.F.T. Integration
WILTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 6, 1999--
Mercator EAI Software Integrates Securities Settlement System
with S.W.I.F.T. World Wide Financial Network
TSI International Software Ltd. [TSFW-news], the leading
provider of comprehensive enterprise application integration (EAI) and
eBusiness integration software, today announced that Nomura Research
Institute, Ltd. (NRI), Japan's largest technology think-tank and one
of the country's largest systems integrators, has successfully
integrated the propriety foreign equity settlement system with the
S.W.I.F.T. financial network for a major Japanese securities company
using TSI Software's Mercator EAI software.
Using Mercator, NRI has implemented an adaptable, highly
maintainable enterprise integration environment that provides seamless
interfaces supporting high-volume transaction processing between the
client-server settlement system and the S.W.I.F.T. network.
Implementation of the Mercator EAI solution for S.W.I.F.T. integration
took less than three months and required no custom programs to be
written for data transformation. NRI has several plans to integrate
other client applications with the S.W.I.F.T. network. Mercator will
provide NRI's client substantial time and cost savings and reduce
implementation cycle on for the future integration projects compared
to traditional hard-coded integration approaches.
"Our goal was to select a proven, scaleable EAI software product
that would not only satisfy our S.W.I.F.T. integration requirements,
but would also be easy and inexpensive to upgrade and maintain
throughout the life of the product. Mercator's rich transaction
routing and transformation capabilities, it's ability to handle the
complexities of S.W.I.F.T. messages without programming, and its
adaptability to all of the popular systems for message transport, made
it far and away the best choice," said Mr. Masayuki Okamura, General
Manager of Securities Systems Department, Nomura Research Institute.
A unique feature of Mercator is its incorporation of pre-built,
semantically correct definitions of all S.W.I.F.T. messages, as
opposed to hard-coded message libraries. With Mercator, changes in
message or application formats can be implemented in a fraction of the
time required when compared to using hard-coded libraries. In
addition, Mercator assures creation of valid S.W.I.F.T. messages, a
major benefit when implementing Straight Through Processing (STP)
between S.W.I.F.T. member institutions.
"NRI's development of Mercator-based integration services for the
financial market is strong endorsement of Mercator's capabilities,"
said John Hanger, vice president of product marketing for TSI
Software. "Large financial institutions are looking for comprehensive
integration solutions that not only reduce their up-front costs, but
scale to any volume requirements and can be adapted to any technical
infrastructure. Mercator meets these stringent requirements and more."
For their client's propriety foreign equity system, NRI developed
the overall system architecture and the user application, and Nihon
Unisys, Ltd., a leading IT provider in Japan and a partner of Mitsui &
Co., Japan's largest general trading company, integrated the two with
support from NRI. Mitsui is the distributor of TSI Software's Mercator
products in Japan and Asia.
In addition to providing EAI solutions for the ERP and financial
services markets, Mercator has become the centerpiece of end-to-end
integration solutions across many other industries, including banking,
health care, insurance, retail, manufacturing, chemicals, and
transportation.
About Nihon Unisys, Ltd.
Nihon Unisys Ltd. is a joint venture of Unisys Corporation and
Mitsui & Co. Ltd., and is more than 6,600 employees helping about
7,000 customers in Japan. Solutions of Nihon Unisys are based on
systems integration including custom and "repeatable" application
solutions, outsourcing, coupled with enterprise-class servers and
associated middleware and software.
About Mercator
TSI Software's Mercator is a comprehensive enterprise application
integration (EAI) solution that unleashes the benefits of automated
business processes by integrating all types of application software.
Mercator leverages existing IT infrastructures through non-invasive
adaptation to middleware, applications, platforms and databases to
eliminate technical boundaries, enabling the enterprise to speak with
a single voice.
Mercator is the leading EAI solution for companies implementing
SAP R/3; and is in productive use by over 225 SAP customers including
Eastman Kodak, Eli Lilly and Company, General Motors, Hershey Foods,
Hoechst, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies and Texas
Instruments. Leading industry analyst AMR Research states, "Mercator
has become the de facto standard' for data migration and the
integration of R/3 with both legacy and bolt-on applications. "
About TSI International Software Ltd.
TSI Software is a leading provider of packaged EAI software
across all industries. TSI's flagship product, Mercator, is the
leading solution for integrating ERP applications like SAP R/3 and
PeopleSoft with existing systems, best-of-breed applications, web
applications, databases and data warehouses. Major customers include
American Express, Citibank, Eastman Kodak, Eli Lilly, General Motors,
Hershey Foods, Hoechst, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies and
Texas Instruments.
TSI Software's Braid Solutions for financial services are used by
more than 300 worldwide financial institutions, including ABN Amro,
ANZ Bank Group, Brown Brothers Harriman, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank,
Merrill Lynch, NatWest Markets, Salomon Smith Barney and Warburg
Dillon Read.
TSI Software is a public company [TSFW-news] headquartered in
Wilton, Connecticut. More information about the company can be found
on the Internet at tsisoft.com.
Mercator is a registered trademark of the Company. TSI Software
is a trademark of the Company. SAP, R/3, and all SAP product and
service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks
of SAP AG. All other product and company names mentioned may be the
property of their respective owners.
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