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Axway products in FEX

About Axway products

Axway product deployment

Axway product interoperation with third-party applications

How Axway products work together

About Axway products

Axway Financial Exchange uses the products of the Axway 5 Suite to support standardized financial message exchanges. To implement Axway Financial Exchange, you deploy some or all of the following Axway products:

Axway product Description
Axway Composer Composer is a graphical user interface in which you define, test, and deploy sets of parameters for Integrator, Transfer CFT and Sentinel.
Axway Gateway Gateway is a communication gateway and secure front end that you use to:
  • Provide transport layer services
  • Handle the packaging and transport of financial exchange messages
  • Provide security and HTTP or SMTP/POP3 formatting
  • Receive packaged inbound financial exchange messages from the network
  • Decode MIME/SMIME formats to local files
  • Handle SWIFTNet exchanges through FileAct and InterAct
  • Generate reports of transfer or message status
Axway Integrator

Integrator is an integration tool that you use to:

  • Integrate all back-end processes with financial exchange message handling
  • Assemble output messages and disassemble incoming messages for treatment of header or data content
  • Map and transform data depending on back-end application requirements
  • Control the format that is applied to inbound messages and message headers
  • Generate logs of transactions

In the context of SWIFTNet exchanges, Integrator provides the following services:

  • SWIFT format handling:
    • FIN (ISO 15022)
    • SWIFT-XML (ISO 20022)
  • FIN connectivity
  • FileAct and InterAct connectivity via Gateway

Axway PassPort Axway PassPort manages the FEX trading partner profiles, including information about:
  • Required certificates
  • Lists of allowed message types per partner and time period
  • Details of exchange agreements with specific trading partners
Axway Secure Relay Secure Relay provides secure front-end services for use in DMZs. Secure Relay is compatible with any Axway B2Bi supported protocol that operates on a TCP/IP network.
Axway Sentinel Sentinel is an end-to-end business, system and technical event monitoring tool that you use to monitor activities across Axway Financial Exchange. In FEX, Sentinel provides the following services:
  • Event tracking
  • Alerts:
    • Combined alerts on correlation between several events
    • Alerts on non-occurrence of programmed events
SWIFTNet Portal SWIFTNet Portal is a web application that provides a means of manually creating, validating, correcting and recycling SWIFT messages that are rejected due to Integrator processing failures.

Axway product deployment

The following figure illustrates a possible deployment of Axway products, working together to supply services for Axway Financial Exchange.

Axway product interoperation with third-party applications

Additionally, you can complement the set of services provided by Axway products with one or more of the following third-party application types:

How Axway products work together

For an example of how Axway products work together to process a FEX message flow, refer to Example message flow.

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