Innovating Unisys Industry Solutions with Agile Business Suite

By Thangathen Ponnusamy, Global Product Manager – Agile Business Suite and Enterprise Application Environment, Unisys

Companies around the globe – and across such industries as banking, insurance, the public sector, telecom, and transportation – rely on Agile Business Suite (AB Suite®) to help differentiate their businesses by enabling innovative new capabilities to be developed and brought to market with speed and confidence.

But it’s not just clients that reap the benefits of AB Suite.

AB Suite powers the development of several industry solutions within Unisys, as well. And just like it does for our clients, AB Suite plays an instrumental role in enabling these solutions to deliver innovative capabilities and a differentiated, routinely enhanced experience.

Let’s take a look at how AB Suite powers the core of our industry solutions.

Unisys Financial Services System

Unisys Financial Services System (UFSS) is a market-leading mortgage and investment servicing platform that spans mainstream mortgages, buy-to-let portfolios, second charges, and equity releases. With UFSS, companies have access to versatile, integrated, comprehensive savings and investment account management and administration functionality. And, the solution offers flexible and compliant mortgage servicing support, including account opening, further advances, interest rate changes, collections, redemptions, and arrears management. Over 40% of all mortgages in the U.K. are processed using UFSS.

UFSS is built on “core” capabilities that provide and manage the customer and account information on which the various UFSS financial modules operate. This core is an AB Suite solution that runs in both the ClearPath® MCP and Microsoft® Windows® environments.

The UFSS Host Integration Gateway (HIG) manages the interaction between the client’s system and core AB Suite application, as well as the transformation of generic XML messages to native UFSS messages and back again.

UFSS is also the basis of Unisys Banking as a Service (UBaaS), a new, multi-tenant, cloud-based core banking ecosystem. UBaaS leverages AB Suite alongside other Unisys products to provide the comprehensive choice of services institutions need to transform their core banking solutions and expand their digital banking capabilities.

Urbis

Urbis is a modular, agile, fully integrated, international core banking system designed to support every aspect of an institution’s operations. With 27 modules – including treasury, retail, lending, private banking, back-office operations, derivatives, and securities – the system is centered on extracting maximum value from a bank’s core customer information. Urbis also provides extensive risk monitoring and settlement capabilities, as well as statutory reporting and its own fully integrated general ledger.

Urbis utilizes AB Suite to facilitate and support SOA development. With the modular, reusable components in AB Suite, financial institutions can quickly and cost-effectively develop new applications and services within Urbis to meet changing customer needs.

Both UFSS and Urbis also serve as key solution components for Unisys Elevate™, a complete, integrated, omnichannel digital banking software offering that enables continuous, seamless customer journeys – no matter if the touchpoint is a mobile device, web browser, branch location, or contact center. Elevate interacts with and links together Unisys core banking systems, existing channel applications, or those from third-party vendors to deliver a seamless customer experience. And with the Elevate Aggregator API-enabled banking platform, institutions can seamlessly integrate with and access their underlying systems of record within UFSS and Urbis.

Universal Voice Messaging System

Universal Voice Message System (UVMS) provides scalable, carrier-grade voicemail capabilities to residential and business customers, along with support for upwards of millions of mailboxes per deployment. In total, more than 100 million people worldwide rely on the solution.

AB Suite is a key technology within UVMS. With AB Suite at its core, UVMS offers the flexibility to define innovative mailbox feature sets, so telecom providers can create unique capabilities that align with specific subscriber group needs. The AB Suite based solution supports high availability call processing, as well as real-time prompt and call flow updating, allowing organizations to update and modify their services without their user communities experiencing any loss or degradation. And the ability to collect call detail information across more than 150 event categories enables a greater level of granularity to be included in billing records or used to support customer service interactions.

The Power Within

Just like you, we trust AB Suite to define and drive how we go to market in a variety of industries. We believe in the power of AB Suite. And as the solutions described above illustrate, we look to AB Suite whenever we challenge ourselves to create capabilities that deliver differentiated, market-leading client experiences.

We’d love to hear how AB Suite is helping your organization innovate. If you’d like to share an example for inclusion in a future Developing Agility article, please email Thangathen.Ponnusamy@in.unisys.com.