Sankarananth Appasamy

MTS is a third-party, multi-bank funds transfer application that is used for sending and receiving funds transfer messages to the Federal Reserve (Fedwire), SWIFT, the Clearing House in New York (CHIPS), and the Bank of England (CHAPS). The system supports fund transfer activity for all the branches of Northern Trust Bank. Transactions are entered into MTS through various sources, like Treasury Passport, WebCashMovement, and Private Passport.

Fund Accounting Transfer Agency is one of the major divisions that will handle the transfer agency work. The Application NFS (Northern Fund Systems) or NIS (Northern Institutional System) is used to generate different types of reports in order to facilitate the sales service and BPA teams to view the NFS/NIS funds in detail. The primary source for fund systems data comes from external vendors like SunGard. The reports are generated by using reporting tools like Business Objects and Crystal Reports. The reports are stored as a PDF, CSV, and Excel, and delivered via XACT Path, FTP, and email.

• PACE (Performance Analytics Calculation Engine) is an application that uses accounting data to calculate investment performance. The main function of the PACE system is to calculate the Rate of Return (ROR). Internal clients (mainly IRAS, PFS, and NTGI teams) use it as an audit and reporting tool. On a basic level, Accounting sends data to PACE, PACE processes the data, and users access the processed data through the PACE front end and the PACE Audit tools.

GDS-SNE (Store Number Expansion): SNE is the project that belongs to Walmart. Walmart has various systems, like GDS and GLS, for their retail operations. The System GDS, which is used by the DC operator in all the DCs. Walmart has a plan to increase their stores from 1,000 to 10,000 in the U.S. and Brazil. So far, the Walmart store has a 4-digit store number. In the future, Walmart would have a 5-digit store number. The scope of the project is to make the system compatible with a 5-digit store number.

Citi Connect is a software product that will process the payments coming from the source system as a file. Citi Connect is the pass-through system. It is a file processing system. Which will handle different types of file formats, like TXT, XML, and IDOC.

Citi Safe is a software product that provides security architecture for the applications. The Citi safe will provide authentication and authorization services to the application. The main feature of the Citi Safe is SSO (Single Sign-On), which the user can access for any of the applications once it’s authenticated by Citi Safe. Users do not need to log in for each application.

FDR is a financial data repository that supports many downstream applications. It is the data repository that stores the data from various applications and distributes the necessary information to the downstream applications.

Input Output Processor (IOP) is part of the Integrated Flight Cabinet (IFC) of the TOPDECK Avionic System. The IOP is divided into two major parts: DCF (Data Concentration Function) and CDS (Centralized Diagnostic System). The Data Concentration Function acquires, computes, and concentrates flight parameters issued from the different aircraft sensors and equipment to the avionic systems. It also manages the different radio communication and radio navigation equipment by using the MCDU. It finally generates alerting cautions to notify the crew of specific events or aircraft system failures.