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Ness Implements Large-Scale EAI/BPM Solution for Israel’s Leading Credit Card Issuer
 
  Project Snapshot
Israel’s leading credit card issuer, Cal, was looking to create a new messaging and business process management (BPM) hub to better handle tens of thousands of monthly customer requests arriving via multiple channels. To achieve this ambitious goal, Cal acquired Microsoft’s BizTalk Server 2004, and chose Ness Technologies to implement the enterprise application integration (EAI) solution. One of Israel’s first major BizTalk Server 2004 infrastructure projects, the solution involved integrating a range of channels including telephone, Internet and customer relationship legacy systems management (CRM) systems. In addition to functioning as a messaging hub, the solution serves as a business process management hub, enabling Cal to better serve its over one million customers.

  The Client

Cal is Israel’s leading credit card issuer, having issued Visa, Diners Club and MasterCard credit cards to more than 1.2 million customers throughout the country. Cal offers direct credit planning and management services to over 250,000 customers, as well as clearing services to 45,000 Israeli businesses. The company has developed a variety of credit offerings tailored to Israeli consumer needs, such as the monthly spread of credit payments, credit card-based loans and cash withdrawals. Cal also offers customers the opportunity to join 30 clubs, enabling cardholders to enjoy a host of consumer and financial benefits.  www.cal-online.co.il

 
  Implemented Technology
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft .NET

 Challenge
Credit card companies traditionally have handled customer requests via a single channel, which requires utilization of a monolithic, single-channel system. With customer requests now arriving via multiple channels, these firms are looking for advanced integration solutions that enable the seamless delivery of instantaneous, up-to-the-second information, which can be used to improve their business processes.

Over the last few years, Cal has received tens of thousands of monthly customer requests via several channels, including telephone, Internet and CRM systems. At the same time, the firm’s core services infrastructure has been running on multiple heterogeneous operating systems such as VMS and Windows 2000 UNIX machines. To handle this new complexity, Cal sought to create a new messaging and business process hub that would not only support multiple channels and systems, but also offer business process management capabilities.

 
  The Solution

In one of Israel’s first major BizTalk Server 2004 infrastructure projects, Ness, with consulting assistance from Microsoft, implemented and assimilated the large-scale EAI solution. Fully synchronizing all messaging channels with Cal’s various core systems by means of a unified infrastructure, the integrated solution enables the delivery of up-to-date information to customers via any channel, while supporting future channels that may be used. Single point of view

Built on a .NET platform and utilizing SQL Server 2000 technology, the solution enables Cal to conduct EAI transactions between multiple channels such as the Internet, interactive voice response (IVR), CRM systems, and archives. Employing a service-oriented architecture (SOA), the solution also includes a business process infrastructure incorporating CA’s Unicenter and a connection to Cal’s MySLA control system.

To enhance the solution’s interoperability with a wide variety of applications and technologies, Ness developed adaptors for Cal’s legacy hub, SIEBEL,IVR ,ADA Sys  systems, as well as for the multiple channels utilized by customers.

Customer Benefits

  • Immediate, real-time data access
  • Multi-channel service capabilities
  • Wider service offering
  • Customer Single Point Of View

Corporate Benefits

  • Better customer service
  • Improved customer retention
  • Greater managerial control
  • Increased business opportunities
  • Faster time to market

 Testimonial
“The system enables us to receive an up-to-date status report for each customer who contacts our company, whether via telephone, Internet, CRM system or any other means. This is a major advantage for a leading company like Cal, which offers near round-the-clock service to over one million private and enterprise customers.”

Boaz Tchetchik, General Manager, Cal

 
  Contact

marketing@ness.com

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