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Business Logic Corporation Creates SourceOFX: the First Certified OFX Solution Based on Web Services Standards.


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CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2003

Solution to drive significantly lower deployment costs and address

broader needs of Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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Business Logic Corporation is announcing general availability of SourceOFX, the first OFX OFX Open Financial Exchange
OFX Outer Fix
OFX Open Effects
 server solution that also supports the widely accepted W3C XML Schema An XML schema from the W3C. It is a superset of DTD, which is the standard SGML schema. Unlike DTD, W3C XML Schema is written in XML syntax, which although more verbose than DTD, can be created with any XML tools. , SOAP and WSDL (Web Services Description Language) An XML-based language for defining Web services. Developed by Microsoft and IBM, WSDL describes the protocols and formats used by the service.  standards. The new OFX solution supports investment and banking account downloads with the extensive current installed base of Quicken and Money applications, in addition to providing a Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term.  Standards based framework to support new uses for extended OFX like account aggregation Account aggregation is a method that involves compiling information from different accounts, which may include bank accounts, credit card accounts, investment accounts, and other consumer or business accounts, into a single place. , financial advice, wealth management, retirement, and much more. Benefits of the new solution include:

-- Low cost solution. Developing the solution with standard web

services technologies allows Business Logic to lower software

development costs and pass the savings to customers.

-- Dependability and performance that leverages the proven

capabilities of widely used Web Services compliant components.

-- Source Code licensing option to provide financial institutions

with greater flexibility and cost control while reducing risk.

-- Architectural framework that anticipates, and enables,

extensions to both the messaging operations and data

structures for other internal and external integration demands

Financial Institutions will have the option of controlling the source code and will be able to use existing internal resources already skilled in Web Services Standards and development practices. Combined with a low up-front licensing cost, SourceOFX will provide the lowest cost and most flexible solution in the industry.

The ability to extend the SourceOFX solution using Web Services Standards will allow financial institutions to more easily deliver complex data to meet functional requirements See information requirements and functional specification.

(specification) functional requirements - What a system should be able to do, the functions it should perform.
 of internal and external applications and business partner integrations, including, but not limited to account aggregation, financial planning Financial planning

Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against
, high net worth, and compliance.

Business Logic provides this unique and innovative OFX solution following a year of work with Intuit in·tu·it  
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To know intuitively.



[Back-formation from intuition.
, and multiple financial institutions, to finalize the release of a new Schema based version of OFX. Business Logic has been Chair of the OFX Web Services working group since its inception in 2002.

"Business Logic's new SourceOFX solution offers significant cost, performance, and deployment improvements relative to historical OFX server solutions, "commented Jon Hagen, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey.  of Business Logic. "We can provide real examples to show financial institutions how our open, XML XML
 in full Extensible Markup Language.

Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations.
 schema-based solution can significantly lower integration and maintenance costs in both the J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems.  and .NET environments. Financial Institutions will also find plenty of internal resources with the skills to expand and maintain the Web Services-based integrations Business Logic's SourceOFX solution provides them."

"We are pleased to see a solution being created that will allow OFX to further extend its position as the leading open protocol in the financial services industry," said Gil Clark, OFX program director at Intuit Inc. "Now OFX will be able to better support a wide range of applications in the industry while maintaining compliance with the installed base of personal financial management software. At Intuit we know that online banking, investment, and bill payment customers who use Quicken(R), QuickBooks(R), and TurboTax(R) software will benefit from the continued expansion of OFX support by technology experts like Business Logic."

About Business Logic Corporation

Business Logic Corporation is an Application and Integration Solutions Provider focused on the front office integration needs of the financial services and employee benefits industries. Business Logic has been providing application and integration solutions to top- tier financial institutions and their partners since 1996. Our solutions allow over 15 million investment account holders at multiple financial institutions to access and manage their money. These solutions include Managed Accounts for the 401(k) industry, Enterprise OFX-based connectivity solutions, account access for the enterprise, and custom solutions. Business Logic has consistently been a leader in providing solutions that leverage the latest technology standards and address the business needs of the financial services and employee benefits industries.
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