Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse, Zurich, Suisse

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Banking

The Multi Channel Platform (MCP) of Credit Suisse is an integration platform that increases the organization's IT efficiency by providing functionality, expertise and resources, by facilitating quality improvement and by supporting the entire lifecycle of applications.

By defining a concise modeling style for facade modeling and by deriving the MDA generators from this definition, the quality is improved and full compliance to MCP architecture guidelines is ensured. Gaps in the transition from model to code are avoided.
Greater transparency regarding implementation of requirements in the code enables significant reduction of project risk and an improved visibility of the project status.
Thanks to design formalization new employees only have to get aquainted with the modeling style, resulting in reduced project risk and increased flexibility for allocation of resources to other projects.
Comprehensive extension capabilities and maintenance facilitate concise modeling of the transformations as well as faster implementation of changes to the framework.
Efforts during implementation are significantly reduced by 33 to 55%.
Return on Investment (ROI): ROI studies exploring the use of MDA and ArcStyler for implementing facades have shown that the investment in Model Driven Architecture and ArcStyler pays off in less than 12 months.

The objective of this project was to examine the use of Model Driven Architecture and the development tool ArcStyler for creating facades at Credit Suisse and to explore the potential benefits this approach can be expected to deliver. Credit Suisse has high expectations regarding quality and standardization when it gets to development of MCP facades - consequently, maintaining a continually high quality level and compliance to defined facade design principles require significant efforts.
So far, MCP facades were developed manually at Credit Suisse, following a well defined process from the requirement, via an abstract and a technical model, to coding and testing. This project was set up to ascertain if deployment of a Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach supported by appropriate tools can reduce the expenses involved with facade development while at the same time maintaining the high quality standards.