Paul Farrell (CRO) John Murray (ERS) Stefan Ellström (Bolagsverket)

Paul Farrell (CRO)John Murray (ERS) Stefan Ellstrm (Bolagsverket)Branch Discovery Service

AgendaEU Branch Directive Pilot (11th)Application in ProductionWhat now?BRITEUser experiences

A little history...Problem was aired at ECRF 2004Cooperation between the CRO, Dublin & Companies House, UKEarly warning system for a host registration authority on changes in the home registration.Prototype applicationSimple design

In ProductionBranch Discovery service createdWeb service designSample .NET application developedPartnersCompanies House, UKCompanies Registration Office, IrelandBolagsverket, SwedenBronnoysund Register Centre, Norway

In Production

Business Register 1(HostRegister)

InterRegistry CommunicationServer

Business Register 2(HomeRegister)

Subscribe to company 0001 in BR2

Request list of its companies that other BR's have subscribed to

List of subscribed companies returned

Publish company status updates (if changed) for subscribed companies

Request an update of company status for subscribed companies

Company status returned

Time

Subscription & Publication

DeploymentWeb services basedSecure SSLDigital certificates issued to all participantsCentral server hosted by CRODirectory of Registers

Registry IntegrationEase of IntegrationAutomatic interface generation (WSDL deployed)Platform/technology independentPhased integrationFlexibility

Deployment

Server

Data

Inter-registryServer

Register

Inter-regadapator

Sample application

Web services

LocalDB

CH, UK

Register

Inter-regadapator

Sample application

CRO, Ireland

Register

Inter-regadapator

Sample application

BOLS, Sweden

Register

Inter-regadapator

Sample application

BRC, Norway

Inter-registry Server

BRC, Norway Integration

Data

InterRegWeb Services

Web service request layer

Business logic layer

DB

BRC Legacy system

BRC Servers

Batch jobs

Registrationapplications

Web

IRC Servers

BOLS approach

Bolagsverkets IT environment based on - Unisys mainframe - Java / J2EE (mostly for integration) Design and implementation based on 4 use cases : - watch Interreg status on parent companies - subscribe for status changes - alert case holders - transfer status of subscribed Swedish companies

BOLS Interreg integration

Data

InterRegWeb Services

Web service request layer

Branch handling

DB

BRC Legacy systemand case holder clients

BOLS Java application servers

Batch job forsubscriptionsUC #2

RegistrationApplicationsUC #1

BOLS PublicWeb Site

Internet

Legacy integrator

Batch job forstatus updateUC #3

Legacy system

Batch job forstatus checksand alert UC #4

BOLS user interface

User Experiences - BOLSUsing Web Services is easy (maybe easier than internal integrations).Automatic interface generation (WSDL deployed) makes coding fasterBranch discovery application is small and light makes it easy to useGood security level

User Experiences BOLS cont.The internal information handling and process definitions can be complex, for instance: - translation of a companys status - what process should a liquidation start ? - invalid values (eg. misspellings) in the BR register of other registers

User Experiences BOLS cont #2.We didnt expect any technical problems in integration - and we didnt get any either ! ( in two days, the communication was established). Success factors: - possibility to integrate to legacy systems - identification of parental company - decisions of how status changes should be handled