Alliance Gateway

Alliance Gateway

Providing a single window to Swift messaging services

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Alliance Gateway

Alliance Gateway is a single, secure entry point to SwiftNet that simplifies connectivity and reduces costs. It consolidates message flows from multiple applications, streamlines infrastructure, and delivers high-performance, scalable communication for all Swift message types.

Benefits

Stringent security
Stringent security

Alliance Gateway can be placed between two firewalls – the ‘demilitarised zone’ – enabling tighter IP protocol filtering as well as segregating connectivity and business processing.

High performance
High performance

Supports over 100 transactions per second for reliable and efficient message processing.

Monitoring functionality
Monitoring functionality

Alliance Gateway provides tight control over business flows and your Swift environment, with monitoring functionality supporting single network management protocol (SNMP) notifications.

Comprehensive development framework
Comprehensive development framework

The Gateway Developers Toolkit can provide an easy-to-use framework for application vendors to offer their products on Swift.

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Features and functionality

  • Unified message concentration

    Concentrates all Swift message flows, including FIN, InterAct, FileAct, and WebAccess, through a single instance using technical adapters like RAHA and MQHA.

  • Direct connection facilitation

    Utilises business adapters such as TDA to enable direct connections to Alliance Gateway, streamlining communication

  • High scalability

    Handles over 100 transactions per second, demonstrating its capability to manage high-volume messaging.

  • Security and resilience

    Can be placed in a demilitarized zone between two firewalls, allowing for tighter IP protocol filtering and segregated connectivity and business processing.

  • Control and compliance

    Maintains tight control over business flows with audit trail functionality and adheres to the four-eyes principle for administration, ensuring compliance.

  • Intelligent monitoring and load balancing

    Supports SNMP notifications, allows mapping of multiple applications or individuals to a single PKI profile, and enables automatic switching between multiple instances for load balancing and resilience.

  • Operator authentication

    Alliance Gateway can be integrated with an existing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) database to perform central authentication of operators defined in Gateway.

  • Integrity checks

    Users can check whether the integrity of software and database components has been tampered with using Alliance Gateway’s integrity verification mechanism.

  • Development framework for application vendors

    The Gateway Developers Toolkit provides an easy-to-use framework for application vendors to offer their products on Swift. Facilities available in the toolkit include local authentication, local file transfer and Gateway management APIs. Developing for Alliance Gateway requires much less effort than developing directly for SwiftNet Link due to Gateway’s integration options and features.

  • License options

    A range of license options can be ordered individually and are available to all Alliance Gateway users. In addition, every user automatically receives Alliance Web Platform SE, a browser-based graphical user interface for Alliance products.

    Contact your Swift account manager to find out more.

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Alliance Gateway 7.7 Service Description Alliance Gateway 7.7 Service Description
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