18 Apr
2013
18 Apr
'13
1:06 a.m.
At 02:59 PM 4/17/2013, Mouse wrote:
Or at least that's my guess. I haven't seen
the code, but it looks to
me as though the end-agent desktop is probably doing format conversion
(eg, digit strings to binary numbers) at the very least, quite possibly
some verification and backend selection, possibly even more..
I think they're running code loaded from a local server that does
nothing more than logic-and-verify, and all the results and transaction
requests are queued into a database that's fed daily to the big machines.
There are an assortment of line-of-business apps at any bank, of course,
and they vary. Loan processing software, for example, helps them
with compliance and filling out forms, but doesn't really "process".
- John