When one of the top global banks was looking to aggregate foreign-exchange orders and pricing for trade, it ran into troubled waters.
It identified two key problem areas. First, the internal-pricing application and the external trading processes that it was looking to integrate were based on different platforms and technologies. How would the two systems talk to each other?
Second, the bank’s employees who had to use the new trading solution were spread over several countries and used many different combinations of hardware and software. How would the employees’ systems recognize the information processed by the new application?
