Business Architecture & Process Consulting

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Business Architecture

Business Architecture

Mapping business requirements to technology solutions calls for architects that are able to understand and translate business needs, and match them through to technology capabilities.
Our Architects come with a variety of industry experience and a track record for assisting organisations, keeping sight of business strategy whilst aligning customers technology architecture.
Business Process Consulting

Business Process Consulting

Process analysis, decomposition and design are the core functions that take business requirements through into a technology-architected solution.
Our Consultants and Associates understand that analysts need to focus on business processes and functions and present them in an end to end process flow so as to enable the technology architectural design.
Integration Architecture

Integration Architecture

Integration Architecture connects the modern enterprise to its internal stakeholders, trading partners and customers by providing the essential links between applications, platforms, business processes and data.
Our Integration Architects pride themselves on understanding the fundamental requirements of sound integration architecture, and are able to apply the multitude of integration software solutions and techniques an organisation has adopted.
Security Architecture

Security Architecture

Effective and efficient security architectures consist of multiple components and include the people, processes, policy requirements and tools that align together to protect company wide assets.
Our Architects follow a methodology that manages the co-ordination of these components ensuring that the security requirements are captured early on in an engagement. This allows the current, transition and future states of the organisations security architecture to be driven by, and align with, business vision, goals and policy. It also enables the security architecture to be implemented in a controlled fashion.
Information System Architecture

Information System Architecture

Technology landscapes are changing rapidly. Sometimes organisations struggle to keep pace and suffer competitive disadvantage.
Our architecture team understand the ever changing face of technology and how to keep up to date. They comprehend the technology and security risks and how to mitigate these risks utilising solid design principles and standards whilst maintaining technology agility.
Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Businesses, technology, and customer preferences in this day and age are evolving rapidly.
Successfully navigating complex business process and technology landscapes requires a nimble and responsive organisation. Being architecturally agile and well structured is key when rising to these challenges.
We believe the role of an Enterprise Architect is to bring the key areas of Business, Integration, Security and Technology Architecture together to provide the organisational alignment and clarity of design.

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Integration & API Services

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Cloud Integration

Cloud Integration

In a world where more and more organisations are choosing to move core functions to a cloud service provider, the need for both secure and highly integrated and defined systems is critical.
We can assist your business to begin its journey, whilst enabling internal teams to understand the core requirements and functions needed to move functions to the cloud, ensuring that you maximise the value received from those services.
Mobility Integration

Mobility Integration

Mobility is the single biggest growth area in the world today.
We understand what is required to integrate the expanding mobile landscape with your business, whether exposing valuable business data to external consumers, or delivering to internal staff securely and reliably.
In addition, we work with some of our key partners to deliver sophisticated mobile applications.
API Management

API Management

In todays rapidly expanding API environment organisations are looking for ways to publish and manage APIs.
We can assist you in understanding how APIs can help you to grow your online presence and the technologies required to link those APIs to your internal systems.
Business 2 Everything

Business 2 Everything

The vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) is moving very rapidly from computer concept to reality, where everyday physical objects will be connected to the Internet and in turn to each other.
More commonly today, gateways enable solutions that allow enterprises and industries to solve complex information and user management challenges across Business-to-Partner (B2P), Business-to-Customer (B2C) and Business-to-Enterprise (B2E) relationships.
We can help guide your business to integrate with other businesses as well as with the ever growing number of consumers in the IoT's.
Business Service Orchestration

Business Service Orchestration

Organisations continue to look for business efficiencies through initiatives such as shared services across departments or entities. Key to the creation of such synergies is the understanding of what the common processes are and thus what common services can achieve better efficiencies.
We understand the linkage between an end to end business process and the utilisation of common services, and are able to use service orchestration to simplify and reduce your reliance on manual processes.
Governance

Governance

IT Governance is a management-backed initiative that requires strong authority and management support to implement a structured framework, enabling management to strategically align, measure, and manage IT resources in a way that will increase their visibility and value to the business, whilst reducing risk and providing a means of continual improvement.
By understanding your entire integration landscape Middleware New Zealand can assist you to establish or mature your integration practices. With well integrated internal systems and securely delivered external services we can bring this all together by orchestrating multiple complex technology systems with a user friendly approach.

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Identity and Security Services

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Workforce Identity

Workforce Identity

Establishing end-user identities, whilst managing the assignment and enforcement of access to enterprise resources.
Workforce Identity is about streamlining and automating processes for provisioning and enforcing access, providing a detailed level of insight and control over access entitlements which have been requested or granted, evaluating and enforcing realtime authentication and authorisation in the context of the resource that is being accessed, and maintaining a comprehensive and valid set of data for enabling these identity and access activities.
We recognise that it is common for organisations to be burdened with legacy applications introducing additional challenges in attaining best practice, and we can assist in navigating these.
Customer Identity

Customer Identity

Brokering customer interactions to digital channels, whilst establishing the right balance between security and convenience for enabling customers to access digital services.
Customer Identity often provides the first experience that a customer has when interacting with a service, this interaction can make or break their perception of the organisation. Unclear instructions, unnecessary steps, and unreasonable delays can all hinder the experience, leaving customers feeling frustrated and inconvenienced. Modern consumers expect to be able to engage with minimal friction, and may look elsewhere if they are not satisfied with their experience.
We can help assess your digital customer experiences, and overlay an effective approach to identity which will contribute to a positive and lasting impression for your customers, while providing you assurance that transactions are enhanced with the appropriate security controls.
Privileged Access Management

Privileged Access Management

Permitting temporary elevated user access policies to systems and credentials for managing IT infrastructure.
Privileged Access Management is an often overlooked component of IT infrastructure which can be difficult to get right without a proper assessment of the current state. When done correctly, it provides accountability and protection against malicious attacks. In a time when foreign interference and opportunistic attacks are on the rise, an organisation’s approach to Privileged Access Management can quickly become the weakest link in enabling significant data breaches, and sabotage of infrastructure components.
We can help to ensure that your critical assets and business interests are protected without hindering the experience of your IT workforce.
Verifiable Credentials

Verifiable Credentials

Transforming the customer Identity Verification process through a trusted ecosystem of customers, credential issuers and relying parties.
Verifiable Credentials are a means of providing proof of one’s identity in the digital age. When interacting with an organisation for the first time, many of us are
accustomed to presenting the appropriate physical documentation. This will gradually become a thing of the past when the Verifiable Credentials ecosystem has
reached a level of maturity. Whether in person or online, Kiwis will be able to provide digital proof of the necessary attributes to relying organisations.
Middleware New Zealand have been close to these initiatives at a governmental level, and currently have representation on the Digital Identity New Zealand Executive Council to provide input to the future of Digital Identity in New Zealand. We can help your organisation to prepare to engage with this ecosystem once it has
come to fruition.
Open Data

Open Data

Enabling customers to consent to an accredited Third-Party Service provider accessing their data.
With emerging open standards in New Zealand, Customers may wish to share their information with a Third-Party Service provider, or have them act on their behalf. Open data enables offering organisations to engage in this ecosystem, allowing Third-parties Service providers to participate by leveraging APIs in order to provide additional value to customers.
Middleware New Zealand have been close to these initiatives, working with many banks within Australia and New Zealand to establish Open Banking in the sector. This trajectory is expected to impact other industries including energy and health. We are at the forefront of this exciting development, and can help your organisation to establish your approach for participating.
Security

Security

The cybersecurity industry has seen significant growth in recent years in response to the dramatic rise in the number of cyber threats worldwide. Since the mass adoption of cloud services, Identity has become central to the majority of attacks, and traditional measures of security are no longer sufficient to protect against concerted efforts to infiltrate environments.
Middleware New Zealand are well versed in the full gamut of security and the risks that are introduced when offering digital services, which penetrates every layer of the IT landscape. We can help to assess your environment and identify any gaps in the approach to security, along with providing the appropriate remedial measures.

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Open Banking

API Standards

API Standards

Our team authored the All of Government (AoG) Guidelines for New Zealand with the Department of Internal Affairs and was heavily involved in the definition of the Payments New Zealand API Centre Standards.
We are uniquely placed to share our knowledge and experience, having led standards-based implementations across the NZ banking industry. This includes developing API-based information sharing channels for Government and non-Government organisations and partners.
Our knowledge and experience boosts your API journey, ensuring it's on a successful track, based on firm foundations and industry best practice.
Identity & Security

Identity & Security

Open banking is heavily standardised to ensure a secure and trusted framework for accelerating sustainable, but protected, customer-centric banking innovation.
At the core of protective measures is robust identity and access control. Open banking requires high levels of privacy protection, consent and strong information security to ensure customers have peace of mind that they have full control of their own data and data sharing.
Our consultants help you find the balance between your customer's right to privacy, optimal user experience, and industry security best practice, such as the OpenID Financial Grade API Standards.
New Zealand Sandbox

New Zealand Sandbox

Our sandbox is a cloud-based platform for quickly and easily offering sample APIs for development and testing by third parties.
A software-as-a-service implementation of a model API Provider, as defined by the Payments NZ API Centre Standards. It is designed for the NZ payments ecosystem, offers branded API-based payment enabled bank accounts, and complies with the Payments NZ API Centre Standards.
Our sandbox allows testing the full suite of API standards for New Zealand and underpins the Payments NZ API Centre sandbox.
API Banking Experts

API Banking Experts

Access to real-time customer financial data is transformational, as customers become attuned to a single, comprehensive view of their financial state, with independent control, and competitive choice. Banks are becoming the first to expose data, insights and services, situating themselves at the centre of an ecosystem where third-party developers cooperate to deliver new, compelling digital experiences.
Third party developers can securely 'plug' into the bank's data and services via open APIs (application programming interfaces). Adopting open API standards gives banks and third-party developers a competitive advantage enabling creation of innovative digital experiences and leveraging the data and insights banks hold, whilst reducing their administrative burden.
Strategy & Architecture

Strategy & Architecture

Businesses face increasing competition from a range of companies, such as FinTechs, whose innovation challenges the established state. In response, organisations are establishing initiatives to become digitally responsive in how they function and engage with their customers.
Successfully navigating a landscape where business process and technology converge requires a responsive organisation which has a clearly defined strategy and an enterprise architecture to support that strategy - from the operating model to the organisational culture, to the structure and design of its IT systems. Our team, experience and toolsets can swiftly help turn your strategy into reality.
Glueware - Open Banking Accelerator

Glueware - Open Banking Accelerator

Open Banking is here and it’s a game changer for New Zealand’s financial sector – giving customers control over their banking data and how it is used.
The Middleware Group's product company; Glueware is leading the charge towards a transparent financial sector, helping banks comply, compete and innovate in a new Open Banking world.
Glueware’s Open Banking Accelerator can help your business gain a head-start complying with the PNZ API Centre Standards and reduce the time-to-market with innovative Open Banking products and services.

Working with Middleware NZ is a delight. Our mutual customers' are always guaranteed that no stone will be left unturned in addressing their requirements. The team at Middleware adhere to a strict discipline of implementing the best architecture and solution to ensure the long term success of our clients.

Axway Corporation

Middleware focus on integration and identity, two areas of work that traditionally cause the most headaches for enterprise ICT. They are pragmatic, working within the limitations of our organisation to get us to progressively better places. They know the supplier marketplace, but always begin with our needs as a customer rather than suppliers wants.

Senior ICT Manager, New Zealand Government Department

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ICT Manager, Wellington

Middleware New Zealand has always been fast to respond and worked with me to meet our needs, the staff they have sent me have been highly skilled and of a professional manner. I enjoy working with them and encourage others to give them a try.

Integration Team Leader, Bank of New Zealand

“Middleware has been a fantastic partner whose contribution significantly accelerated our Open Banking program of work. The partnership model worked beautifully and they felt like part of our team. Middleware is a values led organisation which created a strong cultural alignment to ANZ.”

General Manager, ANZ Bank

Small but mighty

Partner, Systems Integrator

I enjoy engaging with Middleware New Zealand. Their people are always responsive, innovative and put that serve back into service.

Information Systems Manager, Customs New Zealand

Middleware New Zealand have proven to be the right technology partner in delivering our B2B gateway solution. The expertise of the people they have brought on and the quality of the work stands out. We look forward to an ongoing partnership with them in providing solutions that work for us.

Senior Architect, New Zealand Government Department

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We address the major concerns of an ever-changing business to technology landscape. Whether moving in-house applications to the cloud or a software as a service solution; enabling secure external access for your trading partners or customers; or embarking on a consolidation or transformation of your business functions, Middleware solutions will be at the core of these initiatives.

All of our consultants have been selected for their exceptional specialist expertise both from a technology perspective as well as to fulfill key project roles in the business arena and are able to draw on their years of experience to hand craft solutions that fit your business needs.

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