Successful digital transformation with afb Fast Integration Business Services
The afb Fast Integration Business Services impress with short development, rollout and test cycles and thus greatly reduced resource requirements.
Munich, May 4, 2016 - afb Application Services AG (afb), a leading pan-European full-service provider (Business Innovation and Transformation Partner) for financial service providers, manufacturers, retailers and service providers, reports a positive response to its lightweight, agile Fast Integration Business Services, which enable the simple integration of innovative functionalities into existing legacy systems.
Digitalization is radically transforming industries, business models and companies, forcing a review of strategies, structures and processes. As a result, the pressure to act is increasing enormously, and not just from the market side. However, the previous need to meet the speed and intensity of change with customer-oriented solutions while at the same time taking into account legal and regulatory requirements has led to fragmented, outdated IT landscapes and architectures that hinder the short-term implementation of modern internet-based applications in the long term. This apparent contradiction between the flexibility and agility of web-based value chains on the one hand and predictable, long-term IT governance on the other can be resolved by the principle of two-speed IT.
afb Fast Integration Business Services offer the opportunity to keep pace with digital innovation and transformation. The age of large-scale projects is transitioning into an age of assembling and orchestrating business services. These are characterized by short development, rollout and test cycles and therefore greatly reduced resource requirements. They are characterized by data-driven interfaces with few inputs and outputs without further dependencies on specific architectures, systems or database connections, so that they can be put into production independently with a short time-to-market in the sense of continuous delivery. This makes it possible to implement innovative functionalities based on modern technology using business services in legacy systems without changing their code base and functionality. New technology and new features therefore fit seamlessly into the overall picture.
The afb Fast Integration Business Services are based on the afb-CMS, which is a flexible and modular platform for the complete business process from quotation to contract management and has been successfully used by national and international companies for over 20 years. Application examples for Fast Integration Business Services are the Retail Calculation Portal Snippet, an integrated and sales-promoting dialog platform for retailer and manufacturer websites, Advanced Risk & Approval Management for automated risk decisions, and Advanced Digital Document Management. Fast Integration Business Services are configured online and users can design and adapt workflows and rules. This guarantees maximum individuality and agility.
"We have received an extremely positive response from the market for Fast Integration Business Services. Companies in all industries should be able to react quickly and agilely to digital requirements without drastically interfering with existing, often complex IT landscapes," explains Enrico Moritz, Manager Business Development and Consulting at afb, and adds: "We can achieve considerable benefits for the business in the short term by connecting to existing and future ERP systems via Fast Integration without having major dependencies and interactions with large-scale projects or waiting for them to be introduced."
About afb Application Services AG
afb Application Services AG from Munich has been optimizing complete business processes in the lending sector of banks and leasing companies since 1995. As a full service provider, afb offers a customer and project-specific mix of process, specialist and IT consulting, projects based on the afb Credit Management Solution, application and infrastructure operation, business process management and outsourcing. The innovative solutions enable the automation of the entire lending process - from the offer to the application with fully automated credit decision and processing through to contract management. Well-known companies from the financial services sector use afb's solutions internationally and generate significant parts of their turnover with them.
