Volante Technologies has released Designer version 6.0, which allows banks and financial institutions to address the increasing industry demand for application programming interface (API), cloud, and microservices enablement.
Designer 6.0’s service manager feature will benefit organisations looking to take advantage of the opportunities arising from the API economy.
The feature allows users to design comprehensive API-driven solutions, or seamlessly integrate into their hybrid environments using standardised interfaces.
According to Volante, service manager also provides extensive support for microservices architectures, specifically leveraging RESTful API’s.
Designer 6.0 incorporates a number of important enhancements to enable and accelerate cloud deployments.
Additionally, when combined with Designer’s existing OSGI code generation capability, users can quickly build highly scalable cloud-based multi-tenant applications with native high-availability, an essential requirement for 24x7 processing.
Designer 6.0 is compliant with the latest industry and regulatory standards for software accessibility that govern aspects such as keyboard access and display customisation and can be used by individuals with accessibility needs.
The release also includes new plugins, transformations, and additional support for platforms including OpenJDK, newer versions of Java and of middleware such as Mulesoft.
In doing so, this new version continues to address the challenges posed by ever-evolving messaging standards.
Christine Barry, Aite director of research, commented: “As banks and financial institutions compete more intensely with third-party providers and new market entrants, it is more important than ever for them to differentiate by focusing on customer-centric value-added services.”
Barry added: “That means having technology which will allow them to easily tap into today’s growing digital ecosystems and expand their service portfolio.”
Venkat Malla, vice president, product management, Volante Technologies, said: “This major version release helps our customers manage the rapid pace of technological change and capitalise on the biggest trends in financial services, such as the API economy and cloud computing.”
“Version 6.0 stays true to Volante Designer’s fundamental tenets: enabling rapid financial message integration and processing, founded on solid open-architecture API-native bedrock.”
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