Create a Shadowbase Audit Log to Verify Transaction Activity

Figure 1 — Service Bureau’s Provisioning Architecture

Situation

A brokerage service bureau provides trading services to financial services firms on HPE Nonstop systems (Figure 1).

The financial services firms act as a “middleman,” providing portfolio management with online access to the service bureau’s Nonstop trading application.

Problem

1. As the bureau grew, the financial services firms needed larger environments for additional applications and services.
2. The bureau needed to maintain financial data integrity, as it is required to meet regulatory requirements and maintain an archive log of all historical trading activity.
3. It also wanted to use new analytical tools to access key business insights and analyze all trading activity.

Solution

• Use Shadowbase Data Integration Software for HPE Nonstop software to transform the HPE Nonstop trading activity in an archival database in a standardized SQL format (Figure 2).
• Use the Shadowbase Essentials (Audit Log) to see what and when application transactions occurred.
• Create an archival database (Oracle, SQL Server, etc.).

Figure 2 — Shadowbase Data Integration for HPE Nonstop software

Outcomes

• Provides proof-of-performance for financial integrity
• Meets regulatory requirements
• Creates trading activity databases for analysis
  • Performs what-if analysis and scenarios
  • Enables sophisticated data mining, modeling, and analytic processing (OLAP)
  • Creates an archive of change history
• Coexists with existing transformation operations
  • The application remains online the entire time without any code changes

Shadowbase Products of Interest

• HPE Nonstop
  • Shadowbase Essentials Bundle for HPE Nonstop Software (BE446AC/QSA54V6)
    • (Includes HPE Nonstop Shadowbase Audit Log and Audit Reader)
  • HPE Nonstop Shadowbase Basic Data Integration Software (BE443AC/QSA51V6)
• Other Server (non-Nonstop)
  • Shadowbase non-Nonstop Data and Application Integration Basic LTU for HPE Nonstop Compute (BE457AL, quantity 1 per 8 cores)
  • Shadowbase non-Nonstop Audit Log LTU for HPE Nonstop Compute (BE459AL, quantity 1 per 8 cores)

Contact us or your Shadowbase Solutions for HPE Nonstop software representative, and learn how Shadowbase software will benefit you.

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