Analysts in a large North American bank's commercial lending and credit risk operations can source intelligent information across multiple documents.
Client
Commerical lending and credit risk units of large North American bank
Goal
Automated retrieval of information from multiple financial statements enabling data-driven insights and decision-making
Tools and Technologies
OpenAI API (GPT-3.5 Turbo), LlamaIndex, LangChain, PDF Reader
Business Challenge
A leading North American bank had large commercial lending and credit risk units. Analysts in those units typically refer to numerous sections in a financial statement, including balance sheets, cash flows, and income statements, supplemented by footnotes and leadership commentaries, to extract decision-making insights. Switching between multiple pages of different documents took a lot of work, making the analysis extra difficult.
Solution
Many tasks were automated using Gen AI tools. Our steps:
- Ingest multiple URLs of financial statements
- Convert these to text using the PDF Reader library
- Build vector indices using LlamaIndex
- Create text segments and corresponding vector embeddings using OpenAI’s API for storage in a multimodal vector database e.g., Deep Lake
- Compose graphs of keyword indices for vector stores to combine data across documents
- Break down complex queries into multiple searchable parts using LlamaIndex’s DecomposeQueryTransform library
Outcomes
The solution delivered impressive results in financial analysis, notably reducing manual efforts when multiple documents were involved. Since the approach is still largely linguistic in nature, considerable Prompt engineering may be required to generate accurate responses.
Response limitations due to the lack of semantic awareness in Large Language Models (LLMs) may stir considerations about the usage of qualifying information in queries.
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Next generation chatbot eases data access
Gen AI tools help users of retail brokerage trading platform obtain information related to specific needs and complex queries.
Client
Large U.S.-based Brokerage and Wealth Management Firm
Goal
Enable a large number of users to readily access summarized information contained in voluminous documents
Tools and Technologies
Google Dialogflow ES, Pinecone, Llamaindex, OpenAI API (GPT-3.5 Turbo)
Business Challenge
A large U.S.-based brokerage and wealth management firm has a large number of users for its retail trading platform that offers sophisticated trading capabilities. Although extensive information was documented in hundreds of pages of product and process manuals, it was difficult for users to access and understand information related to their specific needs (e.g., How is margin calculated? or What are Rolling Strategies? or Explain Beta Weighting).
Solution
Our Gen AI solution encompassed:
- Building a user-friendly interactive chatbot using Dialogflow in Google Cloud
- Ringfencing a knowledge corpus comprising specific documents to be searched against and summarized (e.g., 200-page product manual, website FAQ content)
- Using a vector database to store vectors from the corpus and extract relevant context for user queries
- Interfacing the vector database with OpenAI API to analyze vector-matched contexts and generate summarized responses
Outcomes
The OpenAI GPT-3.5 turbo LLM (170 bn parameters) delivered impressive linguistic search and summarization capabilities in dealing with information requests. Prompt engineering and training are crucial to secure those outcomes.
In the case of a rich domain such as a trading platform, users may expect additional capabilities, such as:
- API integration to support requests requiring retrieval of account/user specific information, and
- Augmentation of linguistic approaches with semantics to deliver enhanced capabilities.
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The state of Central Bank Digital Currency
Innovations in digital currencies could redefine the concept of money and transform payments and banking systems.
Central banking institutions have emerged as key players in the world of banking and money. They play a pivotal role in shaping economic and monetary policies, maintaining financial system stability, and overseeing currency issuance. A manifestation of the evolving interplay between central banks, money, and the forces that shape financial systems is the advent of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Many drivers have led central banks to explore CBDC: declining cash payments, the rise of digital payments and alternative currencies, and disruptive forces in the form of fin-tech innovations that continually reshape the payment landscape.
Central banks are receptive towards recent technological advances and well-suited to the digital currency experiment, leveraging their inherent role of upholding the well-being of the monetary framework to innovate and facilitate a trustworthy and efficient monetary system.
In 2023, 130 countries, representing 98% of global GDP, are known to be exploring a CBDC solution. Sixty-four of them are in an advanced phase of exploration (development, pilot, or launch), focused on lower costs for consumers and merchants, offline payments, robust security, and a higher level of privacy and transparency. Over 70% of the countries are evaluating digital ledger technology (DLT)-based solutions.
While still at a very nascent stage in terms of overall adoption for CBDC, the future of currency promises to be increasingly digital, supported by various innovations and maturation. CBDC has the potential to bring about a paradigm shift, particularly in the financial industry, redefining the way in which money, as we know it, exchanges hands.
Read our perspective paper to learn more about CBDCs – the rationale for their existence, the factors driving their implementation, potential ramifications for the financial landscape, and challenges associated with their adoption.
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Platform migration increases API capacity by 6x
Migration of legacy API platform to Apigee and GCP and API productizing led to 6x higher capacity and 70% reduction in support tickets, enhancing business growth and customer satisfaction for a global logistics firm.
Our client, a leader in truck transportation and logistics services with more than 50,000 customers across 33 countries, had developed customer-facing APIs using earlier generations of API platforms. These APIs connected their transportation management system with several other critical systems such as GPS tracking, warehouse management, and real-time customer portals. Scalability and reliability issues were plaguing the client’s API management system due to the legacy infrastructure and increasing numbers of APIs, leading to poor customer satisfaction and decreased competitiveness.
The client sought a technology partner who could understand the complex business logic within the existing API structure and execute a seamless migration and modernization that would improve the performance and scalability of the APIs for its customers. A team of Apigee experts at Iris Software addressed the challenges with a comprehensive, customized four-step approach that consisted of:
- Outlining the migration strategy to move 18+ APIs to a more robust API Gateway
- Automating the migration from the legacy API Gateway to Apigee to ease customer transitions
- Balancing internal system loads to increase scalability and throughput
- Implementing Apigee analytics for improved traceability and faster mitigation of issues
Iris’ solution provided multi-market, multi-channel and multi-partner integration as well as other positive outcomes for the client:
- 70% reduction in support tickets related to shipment delays
- 6x increase in API throughput
- New revenue streams from the creation of four new API products
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Get in touchMeet us at InsureTech Connect Vegas 2023
Meet us at InsureTech Connect Vegas 2023
Meet our insurance expert, Venkat Laksh, at InsureTech Connect 2023 and learn how insurers use our InsureTech Solutions in automation, AI, data & analytics, and cloud, to secure the digital future of their businesses.
With the theme, “The Future of Insurance is Here,” InsureTech Connect’s annual conference, ITC Vegas, noted as the world’s largest gathering of insurance innovation, will be at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, from October 31 to November 2, 2023.
The Conference features 14 educational tracks that will showcase insurance industry leaders, top use cases, and actionable insights relevant to the 9,000+ insurers, innovators and entrepreneurs from around the world who are expected to attend. Technology applications and advancements will be a major focus in each session.
Meet up with Venkat Laksh, Iris Software’s global lead in insurance, at ITC Vegas 2023 or afterward to learn how insurers are applying our InsureTech Solutions in automation, AI, data science, enterprise analytics and cloud, to amplify their business competencies and secure their digital futures.
You can also contact Venkat or learn more about the InsureTech services and solutions that help future-proof insurance enterprises here: Insurance Technology Services.
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Connect at the NMSDC 2023 Conference & Exchange
Meet Venkat Laksh, Global Lead - Insurance, at the National Minority Supplier Development Council 2023 Conference in Baltimore to learn how our advanced tech solutions and success as an MBE benefit our clients.
As a long-time, certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and strategic partner of the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC), we are pleased to again participate in its annual Conference & Exchange. This year, it’s at the Baltimore, Maryland Convention Center from October 23-25, 2023.
Venkat Laksh, Global Lead - Insurance, will represent Iris. Connect with him there, or at any time, to learn how our advanced technology solutions and services benefit our clients’ digital transformation journeys as well as support their CSR and DEI commitments.
Iris’ successful growth journey over the past 32 years and our experience delivering Automation, Cloud, Data & Analytics, and Integrations, leveraging emerging tools like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP), to Fortune 500 and other companies in varied industries, including Financial Services and Insurance, sync perfectly with NMSDC’s mission and the Conference agenda. You can find those here: About (nmsdcconference.org).
The NMSDC Conference & Exchange provides several days of networking and educational opportunities for C-suite executives, supplier diversity and procurement professionals, and MBEs. Take the opportunity to connect with Venkat Laksh at the 2023 Conference or afterward to discuss how Iris’ capabilities can help your enterprise realize the benefits of future-ready technology.
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Get in touchRelease automation reduces testing time by 80%
DevOps implementation and release automation improved testing time, product quality, and global reach for a leading multi-level marketing company.
Client
A leading multi-level marketing company
Goal
Shorten the release cycle and improve product quality
Tools and Technologies
Amazon CloudWatch, Elasticsearch, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Amazon ECR, Docker, and Kubernetes
Business Challenge
The client's Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) applications were built using substandard code branching methods, causing product quality issues. The absence of a release process and a manual integration and deployment process were elongating release cycles. Manual configuration and setup of these applications were also leading to extended downtime. Missing functional, smoke, and regression test cases were adding to the unstable development environment. The database migration process was manual, resulting in delays, data quality issues, and higher costs.
Solution
- Code branching and integration strategy for defects / hotfixes in major and minor releases
- Single-click application deployment, including environment creation, approval and deployment activities
- Global DevOps platform implementation with a launch pad for applications to onboard other countries
- Automated configuration and deployment of COTS applications and databases
- Automation suite with 90% coverage of smoke and regression test cases
- Static and dynamic analysis implementations to ensure code quality and address configuration issues
Outcomes
Automation of release cycles delivered the following benefits to the client:
- Release cycle shortened from once a month to once per week
- MTTR reduced by 6 hrs
- Downtime decreased to <4 hours from 8 hours
- Product quality and defect leakage improved by 75%
- Testing time reduced by 80%
- Reach expanded to global geographies
- Availability, scalability, and fault tolerance enhanced for microservices-based applications
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DevOps solution improves scalability by 5x
Automated app and infra deployment with DevOps implementation help a leading medical company launch applications in new geographies, improve time-to-market, and reduce the total cost of ownership.
Client
North America-based fertility and genomics company
Goal
Expand business reach, reduce time-to-market, and support critical compliance
Tools and Technologies
.NET 5, Vue.js, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Transfer Family, Amazon RDS, Amazon EKS, Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, Terraform, GitLab
Business Challenge
The client wanted to expand its reach to Canada, Europe, and APAC regions to meet the requirements for a 10x increase in their user base. Legacy application infrastructure and code built on the old tech stack, with high technical debt, were slowing down the rollout of new features, making the client less competitive. The infra-deployment process was only partially automated, stretching the time-to-market to three months. The total cost of ownership was relatively high. HIPPA and PII compliance were also not supported.
Solution
Iris modernized the application into microservices, built the infrastructure using Terraform and automated its provisioning and configuration.
- Application developed using .NET 5 and Vue.js
- Architecture transformed into cloud-native
- AWS Managed Services, including Secrets Manager, AWS Transfer Family, RDS, EKS, Route 53, CloudFront, and S3, configured using Terraform
- EKS Cluster and associated components provisioned via Terraform
- App pushed to container registry using GitLab pipeline
- Secrets (API keys, database connection strings, etc.) and app images moved to EKS Cluster using S3 Bucket Helm
- Static code analysis, coverage and vulnerability scans integrated to ensure code quality and reduce configuration issues
Outcomes
Our DevOps solution enabled the client to achieve significant benefits, including:
- Application launch in Canada and Europe; Asia Pacific release in the pipeline
- HIPPA and PII compliance
- 5x scalability improvement from weekly average usage
- Time-to-market reduced from three months to 3 weeks
- Total cost of ownership lowered by 50%
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Order management platform transformation
Platform transformation and multi-cloud integration improve multinational publishing company's order management, time-to-market and performance.
Client
Multinational publishing, media, and educational company
Goal
Improve order management and transaction processing capabilities
Technology Tools
AWS EKS, Kong, Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC), Salesforce CRM, Jenkins, Sumo Logic, Datadog
Business Challenge
The client's order management platform was complex and had scalability issues, causing poor customer experience and loss of revenue. The platform was hosted on Oracle cloud, with data stored in different repositories. Services were also hosted in the Oracle cloud, which used the BICC extract to fetch information about order details from Oracle databases. The low performance of customer-facing applications was causing latency and very high transaction processing time.
Solution
Team Iris transformed Oracle-based SOA services into six microservices and migrated them to AWS EKS for autoscaling with self-healing and monitoring capabilities.
We developed services for publishing data to Salesforce CRM for quick order processing and conversions. The BICC system for diversified information and order history was enabled with real-time integration between Oracle Fusion and materialized views for data consumption.
Post migration, these services were registered in Kong for discovery, and a CI/CD pipeline was created for deployment using Jenkins. Sumo Logic was used for monitoring the logs, and Datadog was used to observe latency, anomalies and other metrics.
Outcomes
The order management platform transformation delivered the following benefits to the client:
- System performance improved by 70%
- Transaction processing capability increased by 4x
- Order processing capabilities were enhanced by 200%
- Total cost of ownership (TCO) was reduced by 30%
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API migration benefits leading logistics company
Phased migration of Boomi APIs to Apigee helps a leading logistics company improve performance and scale without business disruption.
Client
A leader in truck transportation and logistics services
Goal
Migrate Boomi-based logistics APIs to improve performance and scalability
Technology Tools
Apigee, Boomi, Swagger, JMeter, Postman, GCP
Business Challenge
The client's existing Boomi Atom platform with logistics APIs had lifecycle and monitoring issues, with frequent and elongated downtimes, causing customer experience challenges.
The system did not support the logging of events, and API transactions were untraceable. Identifying the number of customers facing issues and incidents when APIs were not working was difficult. The absence of alerting mechanisms, scalability concerns, and the Boomi platform's high licensing costs were other critical challenges.
An optimized API governance system was required to provide an abstraction for the backend services, security, and efficiencies around rate limiting, quotas, and analytics.
Solution
Iris strategized the smooth transition of 250+ Boomi APIs, starting with 20 in the pilot phase. The entire migration was planned to occur in four waves.
First, the pseudocode of Boomi APIs was documented and reviewed. The team then developed proxies in Apigee X following a TDD (Test-driven Development) approach. A well-defined logging framework was provided to the client for capturing appropriate parameters for tracking API calls.
Seamless migration of API keys from Boomi API Management (APIM) to Apigee X apps was performed. Network routing at F5 for the individual proxies was implemented to transfer the traffic from Boomi to Apigee post migration in each wave. Process metering, monitoring, and adherence/compliance hooks were inserted into the system.
Outcomes
Our API migration solution delivered the following outcomes:
- Improved performance and scalability by 30%
- Centralized logging and alerting for both APIM and backend systems resulting in 40% MTTR (Mean Time for Ticket Resolution)
- Apigee analytics enablement for API traffic, request latency, response time, target errors, and transaction revenue analysis
- Enablement of API discovery, monetization, registration, partner onboarding, and governance
- Ability to integrate the system into the Apigee developer portal
- Eliminated Boomi licensing cost
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