Swift Looks to Ease Integration Pains

April 27, 2009

Swift has rolled out a tool designed to make it easier for firms to integrate their back-office systems with the messaging consortium's network. The software, called Alliance Integrator, is available as an add-on to Alliance Access, a messaging interface that lets users connect in-house applications with Swift's products and messaging services.

Swift says that it initially is targeting customers that exchange up to 40,000 messages per day with Integrator, which sits between business applications and Alliance Access. Previously, customers that wanted to automate the messaging flow between their applications and Swift faced challenges such as message formatting, connectivity and message reconciliation, said Luc Vanbergen, head of Alliance product management. "Integrator can take care of all that by isolating customer business applications from the Swift environment," he said.

In the product's pilot phase, which began in fourth-quarter 2008, Swift saw a two-thirds reduction in implementation time, according to Fredda Cole, Alliance Integrator product manager.

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