Check Image Archive Load™ (CIAL Load)

Carreker’s Check Image Archive Load (CIA Load) allows banks to store images captured on high-speed reader-sorters across the enterprise, while enabling check and deposit (associated back-end) operations to provide the foundation for an enterprise check image archive.

CIA Load runs in an MVS or AIX capture environment and works with both CPCS and SuperMICR, providing an automatic, manageable high-speed archive load. CIA Load works with a general purpose repository and provides exclusive capability to convert it into a check image archive.

ARCHIVAL KEY STEPS

Capture — CIA Load supports image capture on MVS or AIX platforms during prime pass or recapture passes. With image applications, image quality is the key to success. CIA Load works closely with IBM’s and Carreker’s image quality solutions to provide automated processes to detect, review, and repair bad images prior to archive load.

Import — CIA Load provides the capability to import and archive images from non-IBM image capture systems. Images are imported into CIMS and then downloaded to the archive, allowing archiving of images from existing image capture systems.

Archive Preparation — Check Image Archive Load is designed to archive the volumes of the largest check processors. CIA Load has been measured to archive up to 20 million items in an eight-hour period. (In actuality, there is no design limit to the volume CIA Load can handle.)

Archiving by Groups — Called Selective Archiving, CIA Load provides the capability to
allocate each item to a group or groups as the item is presented to the archive.

Restore — This function restores selected groups to either the MVS or AIX capture system for access by the calling application, CD-Create or Image Statements, eliminating the need to recapture items on the day of statement or CD-ROM creation.

Registration — In order to make images available immediately after capture, index-only data is loaded into the archive while the image data remains in Carreker’s capture system. CIA Load provides the capture and archiving of images at multiple sites or at a central site fed by multiple capture sites.

Archive Enterprise-wide Management — Carreker’s Monitoring Facility (CSMF) provides process monitoring across the enterprise. Its main component, the Process Manager, runs on a Windows NT workstation or server. IBM’s MQ Series is used for communication among CSMF components and applications enabled to use CSMF.

Retrieving Images from the Archive — Access to the stored items is provided by Carreker’s Net Delivery products. This software provides access for external and internal users via Internet browsers, for “fat client” applications and for bulk deliveries required by applications such as CD create and image statements. The Net Delivery set of products provide internet and intranet access to the CIA Load via standard internet browsers.

Loading the Archive

• Multiple capture and archive sites are supported.
• CIA Load is capture-vendor neutral, storing images captured on IBM and non-IBM devices using both CPCS and SuperMICR capture software.
• CIA Load supports loading the archive via files in an automated fashion.

Preparing for Image Storage

• Items may be stored in groups that can be tailored to specific uses or requirements. A set of parameters can be defined uniquely for each group such as storage parameters, index data, number of views (front, back, black/white and grayscale).
• Items or groups of items may be stored, under customer control, on any media, for a specified length of time, and then migrated to another media, or eliminated from the archive. It is possible to optimize your storage requirements based on your specific bank’s usage patterns for check items.

Scalability — CIA Load provides unlimited scalability for loading and accessing the archive. Workflow controls enable the bank to grow the volume geometrically with no change in the basic operation or use of the archive.

Accessing the Archive — Access to the archive from a standard web browser is available using Carreker’s Net Delivery set of products.

For more information about this solution, contact Doug Halvorsen at 704.602.5335 or complete our Information Request Form.