Month: October 2013

 

Curious to see the presentation from FinTP Hackathon #2 this Tuesday? Well, here it is:

 

Here are some of our themes suggestions for the FinTP Hackathon #2.

But, remember, your creativity has no limits. You can just amaze us at the end of these six weeks of coding.

Not quite a tradition yet, but, just like in May, the day after the FinTP hackathon #2, we organized the Allevo User Group. The 23rd edition on 23.

And the reason behind it stays the same: we wanted to debate the ideas from this hackathon’s kick-off while they were still hot. And also to invite more developers from our customer banks to take part in this six weeks coding experience.

On this edition of the user group’s agenda we included:

• qPI updates

Of course, qPI-SEPA was among the topics discussed, as

@A11evo: #SEPA is the buzz word in any event that has participants from the banking system. #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

Our solution’s SEPA feature is live at 2 customers – SCT from 2012 and SDD is ready for testing. RUM is still waiting. #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

qPI-SEPA status: TransFonD SEPA-EUR – december 2013, EBA Clearing – february 2014. #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

We also announced two new qPI features under analysis: qPI-TE transaction enrichment and SEPA corporate to bank qPI-C2B.

qPI UG finding the new features that we have under analysis really interesting. #UG 23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

• FinTP project status, including product development, community processes and the Hackathon #2

Andreea, our FinTP project manager, talked about the community principles

Andreea: Every community has its principle. So does the one around #fintp. Principles that set the community on the right way. #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

Openness, inclusion, scalabilty, freedom of personal choice dynamic decision making, upstream first among the principles of #fintp community

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

Dan Anghelescu: the most important principle in any #opensource community is absolute transparency. #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

…about the community multi-facets structure, the development process roles and phases, the community process system, concluding that

#fintp is about creativity in a well kept garden, not about a jungle. #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

After that it was Horia’s turn to go deeper into the product.

#FinTP architecture is similar to qPayIntegrator’s. We changed Oracle with PostgreSQL, WMQ with AMQ. We offer db access via APIs #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

@horiabe: #FinTP‘s underlying platform is 100% #opensource.We give back to the community:code, http://t.co/6JIFFbiunH, automated build #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

And to say what’s next:

Next for #fintp: integrate the API in UI and finalize PostgreSQL migration, final touches to the DB schema v2, repackage business flows#UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

And to talk about the kick-start of Hackathon #2

For #fintp #hackathon #2 we decided 1-2 days are not enough fot getting relevant feedback. So we made it a 6 weeks coding experience. #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

All developers are welcome to contribute to the #fintp #opensource code. #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

But not alone, as we had participants from the hackathon sharing their ideas and experience with the participants of the user group.

#FinTP #Hackathon #2 first impressions:there are opportunities for future developments.Participants take the challenge very seriously! #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

Don’t forget, you can share any opinions or ideas you have on http://t.co/54kfEUH8Fa forum. Help us build the #fintp community. #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

What was new? The automatic testing tool developed and presented by our colleague Andrei Bogza: a tool that will not completely replace testers, but will definitely increase the efficiency of the testing process.

The automatic testing app will be available for free at the launch of #FinTP. #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

The automatic testing tool is, like #FinTP, fully #opensource compliant. #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

Andrei Bogza raised many questions from #UG23 guests on the automatic testing tool he developed for #FinTP pic.twitter.com/iUNeV7Bg27

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

Following this, we had the consultant session: Ruud van der Horst talking about FinTP and how it can address remittances and financial inclusion.

RuudvdH: qPayIntegrator splits loan disbursements into chunks MPPs can accept and it solves the problem of having to manually do this #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

In the last part of the event, we shared our Sibos 2013 experience with everyone present: remembering the Gen Z Banking for People in the Innotribe tunnel, the success of our Financial Tribes of the Future community session, the interest raised by FinTP and many other I already wrote to you about.

Alina Enache presenting Allevo’s week at #Sibos #UG23 pic.twitter.com/HbzvwTTNpp

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

Now, we are looking forward to the next UG, as next year, on top of celebrating 10 years of qPay Integrator, we’ll also hopefully expand the user group. But more details will come in due time.

Feels so good to announce new User Group members for 2014. #UG23

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

Next year – big party announced at #UG23. 10 years of qPI. Even if the name by then will be #fintp and it will be #opensource.

— Allevo (@A11evo) October 23, 2013

Many thanks again to all participants for joining our user group discussions and helping us improve our customers’ experience.

 

As I’ve kept telling you over the past few weeks, today we had the opening of FinTP Hackathon #2.

And this is how we started the day…

• If you want to see photos from the FinTP hackathon #2, check our album

• If you want to read the updates on the live blog, here is the link

 

If this is what you want

 

If you want to have this schedule for the next six weeks, just be one of our “hackathon runners” 🙂

Click on it to enlarge:

Some of you might still remember the first FinTP Hackathon that we organized on May 15th this year. With all the stage fright of putting together our first event of such type long gone, we now look forward to its second edition. For the FinTP Hackathon #2, we did not plan only a one-day event, but a full six weeks experience. But our goal stays the same: to enable collaboration for developing the FinTP platform and offer relevant resources to the community.

 

When is it going to happen? Well, FinTP Hackathon #2 has three stages:

22 October 2013 – The opening event, dubbed “FinTP In Between Two Hackathons”. It is aimed to provide some highlights on the second hackathon and what’s in it for the participants. Allevo’s senior business consultants, developers, professional customer support, business development, process design and commercial representatives will be there to share their view related to the final tunings Allevo undertakes prior to openly publishing, in January 2014, FinTP and its set of features. They will also reveal the timeline of further releases and how we plan to keep improving the agility and relevance of our presence in the community. Our developers will also reveal the themes for this edition of the FinTP hackathon.

The development stage – over the following six weeks, each participant will be able to get familiar with the available source code and can choose to work on one of the suggested themes or to anything they find more interesting. Anybody can publish their own ideas and bring their contribution to the framework we’re presenting. Ideas and suggestions are more than welcome. Any idea is a good idea: business, technical, fun… And any good idea can be improved into a great idea.

12 December 2013 – The closing session. In the first half of the day, it will host a workshop for each type of professional profile of the participants, and in the second half of the day a conclusions session to deliver the opinion of both Allevo and the rest of the participants on the readiness of the FinTP project for being published. Last but not least, we will reward the contributors with post Saint Nicolas and pre Santa Claus gifts.

 

We would very much like to see you among the participants. Please check more details regarding the event and how you can register on FinTP Developer Community web page. And remember, your ideas and suggestions are more than welcome on the community’s forum.

 

We’re counting on your contribution!

 

If the Internet & Mobile World 2013 is on your agenda tomorrow, you should check out the Mobile & Apps Stage at 13:30. Our own Ioana Guiman will be there to talk about the power of online and mobility tools for the Banking & Financial Services Industry.

You read Banking & Financial and thought no…, this is going to be boring? I promise you it won’t as our case study introduces Generation Z and its banking for people.

Not paying somebody’s salary or pension on time, whether this happens due to an unexpected power failure or to poor operations, causes instant frustration to the under-banked person. This is a scenario that frequently happens in less developed or rural areas, where money if often delivered by means formed at the beginning of the 20th century and which, by design, allows errors and delays to occur.

The high cost and reliability of traditional distribution – a combination of trucks of money, post offices, and delivery personnel – can very easily be replaced by today’s technology and by using right kind of tools.

Our talk tomorrow will reveal a tool that centrally processes all financial transactions using industry standards, capable of creating an end-to-end e-corridor from the treasury of any financial institution, past the interbank low payments infrastructure and all the way to the ultimate receiver, who does not have to have a bank account. Financial inclusion is possible because of Gen Z technology.