Part of any middleware solution is the ability to interface with any number of foreign systems. This might be the host application that Information Manager is web enabling. It could be an external third party like the DTCC or SWIFT or it could be an internal application like billing or funds transfer that needs information from the application. All these systems have several elements in common.

Interface Manager provides a table driven application that includes all of the above functions. It supports communications such as IBM's MQ Series, FTP or SNA. Messages can be sent or received in the form of an industry standard such as DTCC, SWIFT or SIAC or in a proprietary flat file. The Interface Manager incorporates a data parser and data loader that put the messages into a data warehouse with an industry specific schema.

The Interface Manager also allows scheduled events to be programmed into the application. For example: If a user reconciles transactions entered into the Interface Manager to an internal accounting application, the Interface Manager can be scheduled to generate a weekly report or export file, in a predefined format, such as a Microsoft Excel file, (xls), of all their transactions for the week. In addition the process can be setup so that it runs the same report or export every week thereafter.