Unleash your ingenuity.

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.

Extensible

Create your own widgets

The ORB Platform’s functionality is subdivided into widgets that can be easily customized.

Supplement with your own services, databases and providers

The ORB Platform is built upon a rich software development platform that exposes secure interfaces to financial information, user behavior, preferences, and trended analytics.

Customize our UI or create your own

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.

Scalable

Scale out each service tier

Built upon a highly scalable and distributed architecture, the ORB Platform easily scales vertically and horizontally to support large and quickly-growing user-bases.

Enables load balancing

Each tier may leverage additional high-availability technologies, such as database clustering and load balancing, as fully supported by the ORB Platform.

Maximizes virtualization capabilities

ORB Platform was architected to support VMware’s ESXi virtualization solution.

N-Tier design

Using N-Tier design principles, the platform fully supports a segregation of the data, services, and front-end web browser components.

Secure

Claims-based authentication

The ORB Platform allows a trusted third-party multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution to store and administer credentials and authentication requirements.

PKI Technology

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.

Single Sign-On capable

Improves the scalability and reliability of front-end security and authentication through Entrust’s IdentityGuard MFA solution.

Secure database storage

Data is securely stored in the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 DBMS which provides advanced data encryption technologies.

Flexible

Retail and Business solutions built into one platform

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.

Developed using best practices and standards

The ORB Platform combines time-tested ideas and functionality with an innovative user interface designed using technologies that promote stability and interoperability.

Multiple MFA and SSO options

Endpoint connectivity through the Windows Communication Foundation to support claims-based authentication and secure access to data.

Takes advantage of latest trends in technology

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.

Fast

Built for speed

The ORB Platform removes barriers to speed and scalability by utilizing a distributed architecture and technologies that enable high-availability and load balancing.

Allows for easy distribution among servers

IT administrators have the ability to distribute the most demanded features of the system to maximize utilization across the server infrastructure.

Efficient data retrieval

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.

Built-in caching mechanism to increase performance

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.

Stable

Built for mission-critical environments

Each component of the platform responds well under load and preserves the security and integrity of financial information and communications in a distributed environment.

Built on powerful, proven technology

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.

Created with infrastructure managers in mind

Rich management interfaces allow existing network operation center (NOC) software to connect to and monitor components.

Built-in system monitoring

System administrators gain a deep, application-layer visibility into the usage and load of various aspects of the solution to provide uptime assurances.

Tech Specs

Operating System
Windows Server 2008 R2
Virtualization
VMWare
Security
Full federated identity management using SAML with Claims Based Authentication and X.509 certificates
MFA
Full suite of multifactor authentication options utilizing Entrust IdentityGuard
DBMS
Windows SQL Server 2008 R2
User Interface
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Framework
Microsoft .NET 4.0 and ASP.NET MVC
Supported Browsers
Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer
Supported Mobile Platforms
iOS (iPhone / iPad), Android, Blackberry, Palm and Windows Mobile

Integrations

The ORB Platform interfaces to all of your third party and back-office systems such as:

  • Bill Pay
  • Core Processing
  • Check Imaging
  • Mortgage Processing
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Remote Deposit Capture
  • eStatements
  • ACH
  • Wire Transfers