High Scale Integrations in Finance
- Sam Martindale
- Feb 25
- 1 min read
Updated: Mar 20
Introduction
Since 1994, CU Direct has been helping credit unions succeed at providing a unique brand of lending – excellent, efficient and designed to serve the member. CU Direct helps credit unions deliver solutions, products and features that meet the demands of today’s members –from leading-edge mobile technology to powerful, configurable lending platforms, analytics and reporting, auto-buying tools,retail
lending solutions and more.
Challenge
In March of 2014, CU Direct was seeking to remove their dependencies on BizTalk Server, which orchestrated integration between internal and external systems. This was done via custom orchestrations within BizTalk and the storage and usage of “ICE” records, which govern the lookup and execution of web services and other software components for a given message. This option was utilizing BizTalk Server 2006, and required either an upgrade to a more modern version of BizTalk, or replacement with another similar technology stack.
CU Direct selected Afterman Software to replace BizTalk Server with NServiceBus in order to complete the current integrations. This solution immediately reduced the licensing costs as well as provided a far more scalable and pluggable architecture, allowing for future feature enhancements.
