Digital Microservices Portfolio Overview
What is CTC’s Digital Microservice Portfolio?
CTC’s Digital Microservice Portfolio is our vast range of microservices that can be integrated into your current existing system to enhance the service you provide to your customers. Our Microservice Portfolio covers everything from customer facing to operational back office microservices within the pensions and investments industry.
Microservices are a development architectural style that builds a single application as a set of small services. Each microservice is designed for a set of capabilities and focuses on solving a specific problem with each containing small module of backend code that runs a singular process or functionality that our clients can incorporate into their system communicating in the form of API’s.
While some of our microservices only consist of the backend API, others also come with their own frontend user interface allowing individuals to interact with our offering.
Benefits of a microservice approach
There are multiple reasons to why CTC have taken this microservice approach. All of them are a benefit to us but mainly to our clients as:
Ease of deployment
A microservice architecture lets teams deploy independent applications without affecting other services in the architecture. This feature, one of the pros of microservices, will enable developers to add new modules without redesigning the system's complete structure. Businesses can efficiently add new features as needed under a microservices architecture.
Quicker to market
Your IT and Operations teams can plug a new microservice into their existing architecture without fear of conflicts with other code or of creating wider spread issues across their whole infrastructure. Companies can develop and deploy new features quickly and upgrade older components as new technologies allow them to evolve.
Feature scalability
As each microservice runs independently, it is easier to add, remove, update, or scale each feature. Developers can perform these tasks without disrupting any other microservice in the system. Clients can adjust each microservice as needed.
Improved data security
By breaking down your overall system into smaller pieces for example individual microservices, sensitive data is protected from invasions from another sources. While there are connections between all microservices, CTC utilises secure APIs to connect the services as secure APIs safeguard data by ensuring it is only available to specifically authorised users, applications, and servers.
Digital Microservice Portfolio configuration steps
Step 1
Select Microservice(s)
Step 2
UI options
Step 3
Hosting options
Our Digital Microservices categories
Pension Accumulation
CTC has a wide range of microservices from improving customer engagement to helping your customers plan for their future retirements.
Pension Decumulation
CTC has a wide range of microservices from helping your customers understand their retirement options to withdrawing from their pension.
DB Pensions
When you end up spending so much time on the administrative process rather than the financial advice, the quality of your advice may not be as exceptional as it can be.
Investment & Bonds
With the ever increasing need to provide new or further digital services to your customers & advisers to help support their requirements to understand the current or future investment environment.
Calculators & Planners
Our tools are backed by a strategic calculation’s engine, Elements, allowing actuarial assurance ensuring that our clients are kept ahead with the innovation curve.
Operational
As CTC is an Administration provider itself, we understand what you might need from an operational point of view to better serve your customers.
Our Digital Microservices products
Abridged Advice
As each microservice runs independently, it is easier to add, remove, update, or scale each feature. Developers can perform these tasks without disrupting any other microservice in the system. Clients can adjust each microservice as needed.
DCube
As each microservice runs independently, it is easier to add, remove, update, or scale each feature. Developers can perform these tasks without disrupting any other microservice in the system. Clients can adjust each microservice as needed.
TVAS
As each microservice runs independently, it is easier to add, remove, update, or scale each feature. Developers can perform these tasks without disrupting any other microservice in the system. Clients can adjust each microservice as needed.