Volante Message Metadata Repository
The Volante Message Metadata Repository consists of the following components: a Data Dictionary, a Catalog of Messages and a Catalog of Cartridges. The Data Dictionary consists of a list of Enterprise Element (or field) definitions. These definitions can be derived from well-known dictionaries such as the ISO15022 data dictionary or a company's internally derived dictionary. Users can use this data dictionary to build Enterprise Internal Messages, which are stored in the Catalog of Messages within the Repository. Doing so standardizes messages used internally within an Enterprise and avoids the nightmare of mapping and transformation.
By sharing the catalog of messages, enterprises can avoid multiple users defining and using the same message like Settlement Instructions multiple times. This avoids reconciliation issues and brings about Enterprise wide standardization. When messages are exchanged between applications or firms, they may have to undergo various processing steps such as validation, data enrichment, mapping to other formats and routing to various destinations. The rules corresponding to these steps are encapsulated into Cartridges defined using the Volante Composer. These Cartridges are stored in the Repository within the Catalog of Cartridges.
The Volante Repository can be hosted on any standard RDBMS like IBM DB2, Oracle and SQLServer. A versioning mechanism is built-in to manage multiple definitions (“versions”) of the Repository’s contents. The Volante Repository is tightly integrated with other Volante products such as Composer, Cartridge Publisher and Code Generator. As a result the Repository is always in sync with the applications that use it.
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