Microsoft BizTalk Server Customers Gain Enhanced Access to SWIFTNet
BOSTON, October 2 -
Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT becomes part of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and achieves SWIFTReady Gold Financial EAI 2007 label.
Today at Sibos 2007, Microsoft Corp announced that, for the fourth year
running, Microsoft® BizTalk® Accelerator for SWIFT has been awarded the
SWIFTReady Gold Financial Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) 2007
label. The renewal of the gold label coincides with Microsoft's recent
announcement that BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT is now available in the box
with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2. By embedding the accelerator's
capabilities in BizTalk Server, R2 customers will be able to automatically
integrate their financial messaging networks with SWIFTNet and take advantage
of increased automation of corporate-to-bank communications.
By leveraging BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT's rich capabilities for SWIFT
messaging standards, customers across all industries will be able to ensure
operational efficiency and standardise global banking connectivity as part of
their investment in BizTalk Server 2006 R2.
"Corporations across all industries need to link financial messaging
technologies with everyday business process management applications.
Microsoft's decision to provide BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT will help them
with this," said Gottfried Leibbrandt, head of Markets, SWIFT. "This
in-the-box availability makes it easier for organisations to achieve
streamlined and automated payments activities. We look forward to continuing
to work closely with Microsoft to help further achieve these goals."
"BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT has been a significant part of our
discussions at Sibos for more than five years now, and it is a credit to the
continual development of new and additional features that it has again
received the SWIFTReady Gold Financial EAI Label," said David Vander,
managing director of Banking, Worldwide Financial Services, Microsoft. "SWIFT
continually raises the bar for companies looking to be certified with this
label, and the addition of ISO 20022 standards to this year's requirements is
indicative of multiple industries moving further towards leveraging
standardised business flows in the payments area."
BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT is available in the box with BizTalk Server
2006 R2 today. Beginning December 2007, customers will also benefit from ISO
20022 support when the BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT v3.0 Service Pack 1 is
released. Adding BizTalk Accelerator's capabilities to the core server
product demonstrates how Microsoft is simplifying support for SWIFT standards
and enabling customers and partners across all industries to develop
integrated applications for SWIFTSolutions. By combining the specialised
skills and experience of its partners with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2,
Microsoft will allow customers to benefit from the most streamlined
connections to SWIFT.
"Customers and partners need a service-oriented architecture and business
process management platform that enables complete connectivity,
interoperability and integration from end to end," said Robert Wahbe,
corporate vice president of the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft.
"With BizTalk Server 2006 R2, we have extended this effort one step further,
to where the 'last mile' of business value is added, by providing
out-of-the-box components for partners that need to build SWIFT solutions."
At Sibos 2007, Microsoft will be discussing how it helps customers and
partners address issues and opportunities associated with corporate-to-bank
payments processing, corporate and wholesale payments, treasury and cash
management, risk management and compliance, anti-money laundering, mobile
payments, fraud prevention, and support of SWIFT messaging protocols and
standards.
About Microsoft in Financial Services
Microsoft's Financial Services group helps financial firms leverage
technology to amplify the impact their people can deliver to drive business
success. We help our customers in banking, capital markets and securities,
and insurance achieve four business outcomes: develop relationships, drive
innovation, improve operations and build connections. To do this, we focus
our products and technologies and our work with leading solutions, services
and hardware partners on key areas where we believe we and our partners can
deliver exceptional value. Those areas include advisor platforms, channel
renewal, core banking, enterprise risk management and compliance, insurance
value chain, and payments. For more information, visit
http://www.microsoft.com/financialservices.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realise
their full potential.
About Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
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employs more than 13,000 people in 60 subsidiaries, delivering products and
services in 138 countries and territories.
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Source: Microsoft Corp.
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