With the new electronic CIS portal, the customers can view at one place; account information about their various relationships, and the compute the investable balance. Based on this total picture, further investment action can be initiated by the customer.

E-CIS is a client-server based portal application, which will allow customers to access an aggregated view of account balances and maturities, portfolio holdings and trade transaction activity.

	Rapid Development: Time-to-market by leveraging the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform. These certified open standards simplify development, leverage existing skills, and get applications deployed quickly.
	High Performance and Scalability: Built on a highly-scalable, clustered architecture delivers load balancing, connection pooling, results caching, and optimized Web server, operating system, virtual machine, and database communications.
	High Availability: By leveraging the battle-tested platform on the market, deployment of mission critical, e-business applications can be based on J2EE technology with confidence.
	Enterprise Integration Options: Connecting to existing enterprise resources, doing high performance messaging within the enterprise (application integration) or over the Internet (Business-to-Business), The architecture can manage content, business logic, and transactions from the data center to the client.

As the customer is now empowered and able to access his information through the Internet and view it in one place before calling the CIS sales person, the facility enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of the sales and customer service process.

The portal also provide the client news (via links to internal systems), market benchmarks (NASDAQ, DJIA) and news through existing internal market data service such as the Global Markets Group (GMG) market data component.

The application has necessary components to enable use of off-the-shelf tools for content management and personalization at a later stage.