MONETT, Mo.—Symitar, a division of Jack Henry, has announced the general availability of SymXchange, a services-based programming interface that enables credit unions and third-party vendor partners to more easily access and personalize data and business rules of the Episys core processing platform.
SymXchange's service-oriented architecture supports interactive data exchanges through standard programming languages such as Java and C#, the company said.
“This offers stakeholders a well-known services-based approach and reduces any learning curve, allowing credit unions to leverage a larger talent pool of IT resources, minimize integration costs, and improve time-to-market of new products,” the company said. “Employees can take action such as posting transactions, executing multistep processes, running PowerOn® scripts, or querying, deleting, and editing data using a fraction of the steps and coding that was once required from standard development tools.”
According to Symitar, nearly 50 beta credit unions have implemented SymXchange today, and approximately 440 more are licensed through Symitar and CUSOs. Several third-party vendors have begun upgrading their solutions to interface with Episys using SymXchange.
To offer a more secure interface, SymXchange uses TLS encryption, mutual authentication, and an increased number of available credentials, Symitar said. The integrity of the Episys core system is maintained throughout any data exchange, because access to business rules and data is managed through a services layer, which governs these interactions.