New products on heritage systems

New products, features and regulatory changes usually wait for the release cycle of the core systems underneath. For heritage platforms that can mean a year or more of change, testing and cost, and some changes are never attempted because the effort is prohibitive.

Risk, security and compliance requirements must still be met before anything new can launch.

A Data Mediation point sits in the path of the data the product depends on. New behaviour is composed there: data is enriched, transformed, validated or routed as it passes, so a new feature can go live while the core systems stay as they are. The same point applies the risk, security and compliance controls the new product needs.

Programmable Data Agents let the organisation launch its own features by composition, without waiting for a vendor release. In earlier deployments, a global bank delivered regulatory change in weeks on a multi-region corporate banking site, where the nearest alternative was more than twelve months of manual coding. A global payments company launched a new product in weeks, with its risk, security and compliance gaps closed at the Data Mediation point.

• A new feature live in front of an unchanged core system
• Risk, security and compliance controls applied in the same path
• Change delivered in weeks rather than core release cycles
• A record of every request the new behaviour touched

The exact scope, controls and evidence depend on the customer environment and are agreed before implementation.