1. Case Study – Finance Process Integration
Connected Systems Consulting Ltd

2. Connected Systems Consulting Ltd
Customer
• Location: United Kingdom
• Sector: Healthcare
• Size: Large

3. Connected Systems Consulting Ltd
Scenario
• Major technology refresh project
• Integrate new application with existing finance processes in
PeopleSoft
• Periodic spikes in load (year end, month end)

4. Connected Systems Consulting Ltd
Solution
• Use BizTalk to provide an integration capability between
applications
• Complex message transformation
• Moderately complex orchestration across systems

5. Connected Systems Consulting Ltd
Benefits
• Approx. 10 million customer payments per year
• Large year end and month end spikes are controlled and don’t
affect system performance
• Exceptions are track able and manageable

6. Context
User has a healthcare policy
in customer system
Customer system sends information about
Customers, products and billing info to finance system
Finance processes collect money from customers
Finance system confirms customer is in credit

7. Containers
Submit finance
messages
Complex process with
multiple interactions
with Peoplesoft
Confirmation ACK
when process
complete
PeopleSoftBizTalkCustomer
Application

8. Connected Systems Consulting Ltd
Technical Highlights
• BizTalk able to receive many concurrent messages up to 240 concurrent
receives
• BizTalk able to throttle load to protect PeopleSoft
• BizTalk message box allows us to implement asynchronous pattern which
also supports load levelling
• BizTalk able to implement complex mapping and business process
• BizTalk able to send acknowledgement when process complete
• BizTalk provides support team a management console to manage process
instances and exceptions