Business scenario
This scenario shows how the integration between HCL Workload Automation and IBM Sterling Connect:Direct can provide multiple platform support and offer data transfer and security capabilities, as well as system stability and efficiency, while exploiting at the same time the job scheduling and monitoring features of HCL Workload Automation. IBM Sterling Connect:Direct also allows for file transfer compression and has a very efficient processing speed.
Scenario goal
This scenario shows how the IBM Sterling Connect:Direct and HCL Workload Automation integration is an agile, scalable, and flexible solution for end-to-end file management and automation in a secure environment. IBM Sterling Connect:Direct interfaces with operating system security and provides a comprehensive audit trail of data movement through extensive statistics logs.
Business Scenario
Finch International Bank is an international banking corporation with headquarters in the U.S.A. and branches in several foreign countries. They offer a wide variety of banking solutions and services, however, their primary customers most commonly use ATMs and customer call centers. Over the next few months, they plan to acquire a smaller bank and seamlessly integrate it into their business operations. To achieve this objective, they need a software offering that is able to provide multiple platform support and offer data transfer and security capabilities, as well as system stability and efficiency while automating all scheduling and monitoring operations. They also require vast amounts of computing power to keep their systems running with minimal interruption.
By deploying an integrated solution that uses IBM Sterling Connect:Direct and HCL Workload Automation, the company can schedule and monitor the transfer of high volumes of files with no defined limits on file sizes. The solution scalability helps ensure that Finch International Bank would be able to handle peak demand and keep pace as they increase the number of branches.
Using HCL Workload Automation, the company schedules an IBM Sterling Connect:Direct job to connect to all ATMs at the end of the business day and retrieve a log of all operations performed during the day. When handling sensitive data, such as bank account balances, money withdrawals, and cash deposits, security is a must and any breaches would be have a serious impact on the bank reputation. The IBM Sterling Connect:Direct job can safely retrieve all data in secure and reliable manner and send a report to the HCL Workload Automation server.
The report is then parsed for analysis and uploaded into the database.