Client case for Société Générale

Swift and Fircosoft project – SWIFT flow processing
societe_generale
Location
Paris
Project's functional area
Swift and Fircosoft project
Technological environment
SWIFTNet + Office Pack Platform
Detailed description of the project

Objectives:

  • Migrating all entities to their new EAI for SWIFT flow processing
  • Improving and streamlining the SWIFT infrastructure
  • Urbanising and industrialising exchanges
  • Setting up a new MX standard for clients

Our consultants work in the following areas:

  • Internal projects in line with rolling out the group’s strategies and offering a highly resilient SWIFT exchange platform: setting up a new EAI, streamlining platforms, optimising service, etc.
  • Major regulatory-based projects on a national and international scale, emerging new XML flow types, etc.
  • Assessing clients’ SWIFT-related needs, impact studies, requirement management and project schedule mapping
  • Drawing up expressed needs
  • Setting up solutions and configurations on SAA, SAG, EAI SWING, SIDE, PLASNET, WEBPF
  • Setting up MX standards for subsidiaries with client-specific connections and using new input tools
  • Acceptance data sheets, test scenarios, conducting tests, documenting the results
  • Integration tests and deliverables management
  • Interfacing between the development, infrastructure and project management teams
  • Presenting and demonstrating how new solutions are used across our French- and English-speaking subsidiaries.
  • Coordinating with all technical teams and projects and sponsors.
  • Change management
  • Drawing up training materials, user guides and various working documents.
  • Leading project meetings
  • Overseeing production start-up and Level 3 support
  • SWIFT monitoring, analysing new releases and recommendations
Drawbacks and key success
Facilitating Publisher relations according to departments' needs.
- Goal: Identifying, organising and optimising department needs
- Action: Meetings with Publisher and departments
- Result: Request processing processes that result in increased responsiveness