The ORB (Online Relationship Builder) Platform enables you to leverage the same infrastructure, services and tools that power the Alkami Online Banking Suite. You can modify our user interface or create your own. Utilize our developer toolkits and administration module to extend and customize the platform with your own themes, widgets, apps and content.
The ORB Platform gives you the control and flexibility of a solution as if it were built specifically for you.
The ORB Platform’s functionality is subdivided into widgets that can be easily customized.
The ORB Platform is built upon a rich software development platform that exposes secure interfaces to financial information, user behavior, preferences, and trended analytics.
The ORB Platform brings the combined power of a targeted content delivery system and a development platform together with a rich Theme Development Kit (TDK) and Widget Development Kit (WDK) to create unique branding opportunities and highly-relevant user experiences.
Built upon a highly scalable and distributed architecture, the ORB Platform easily scales vertically and horizontally to support large and quickly-growing user-bases.
Each tier may leverage additional high-availability technologies, such as database clustering and load balancing, as fully supported by the ORB Platform.
ORB Platform was architected to support VMware’s ESXi virtualization solution.
Using N-Tier design principles, the platform fully supports a segregation of the data, services, and front-end web browser components.
The ORB Platform allows a trusted third-party multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution to store and administer credentials and authentication requirements.
Information is securely stored using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology on segregated servers that no component of the ORB Platform, core system, or any other connected interface can access.
Improves the scalability and reliability of front-end security and authentication through Entrust’s IdentityGuard MFA solution.
Data is securely stored in the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 DBMS which provides advanced data encryption technologies.
The ORB Platform is built to accommodate the requirements of both business and retail users. The plugin functionality enables institutions to easily integrate new features and functions for all lines of business.
The ORB Platform combines time-tested ideas and functionality with an innovative user interface designed using technologies that promote stability and interoperability.
Endpoint connectivity through the Windows Communication Foundation to support claims-based authentication and secure access to data.
Various components are deployed on the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system, which can be deployed with only the required operating features and which provides advanced clustering capabilities to improve redundancy.
The ORB Platform removes barriers to speed and scalability by utilizing a distributed architecture and technologies that enable high-availability and load balancing.
IT administrators have the ability to distribute the most demanded features of the system to maximize utilization across the server infrastructure.
The ORB Platform was designed to be lean from the ground up with database querying and reporting mechanisms built for speed and responsiveness to ensure users get relevant information quickly.
The careful application of caching throughout the data, services, and presentation tiers of the platform reduces the load on the underlying database systems and connected core interfaces, serving users with current information with minimal wait.
Each component of the platform responds well under load and preserves the security and integrity of financial information and communications in a distributed environment.
The ORB Platform is designed to use a robust client-server architecture, leveraging proven database and web delivery systems that power over half of the server operating systems in the world today.
Rich management interfaces allow existing network operation center (NOC) software to connect to and monitor components.
System administrators gain a deep, application-layer visibility into the usage and load of various aspects of the solution to provide uptime assurances.
The ORB Platform interfaces to all of your third party and back-office systems such as: