Awesum, Clearly, this issue is a lifecycle goal. More third party services come under the community's radar, more integrations take place. Therefore, I foresee this on the *CN branch*.
Now Identification is not only limited to KYC and authentication. There are usually multiple data pointers with which a client account in any Core banking is identified with. Scores of personalised third party services have API endpoints with which Fineract platform can consume their use case specifics. Categorically & unfortunately, Asewum, we don't have an Identity service. A sustainable & stable identity service in context to Fineract as a financial platform(and keeping up with the 2020 era) is to be able to ascertain/verify self user or client creation as accurately as what they claim it to be. Example- A client creation requires their unique ID no. which can be matched with Govt issued Database or if a client creation requires their existing bank account access, which can be securely taken through say Yodlee. (since there are countable such services which Fineract does not need to keep a track of- we need to create a sequential, secure, interop seamless framework to integrate them) Just to avoid ambiguity, this thread is contextual to scores of third party services where Identification is one use case. Let's call these 'Widgets' for simplicity. As far as the list of examples I shared, there are much more examples. The community needs to bring this on the development roadmap. Just to give you a fundamental challenge here- Either partners notice that they can use few of these services and attempt to integrate or these service provider also come forward, having noticed Fineract initiative. A good example is Lokyata which is an external third party service for our conversation purposes. However, their team is unable to find a definitive seamless integration framework with Fineract platform. This is true with other examples as well. Now some of these 'Widgets' can be used with Fineract at the infrastructure level, but as Fineract becomes more platformified, it will be critical to bring these services under one seamless framework. > On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 2:24 PM Awasum Yannick <awa...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Ankit, > > I am trying to understand what you are saying here. Maybe some questions > will make me understand better. > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 10:14 AM Ankit Muellner <an...@muellners.org> > wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> At the community level, we must explore the possibility of creating a >> seamless framework for third party services integration at both functional >> and non functional levels: >> 1. For both open and closed source services >> 2. For freemium and paid services >> > > Are you talking here about FIneract 1.x or Fineract CN? Fineract CN > > >> The use case examples are Identification, Credit decisioning APIs, >> Account scoring, portfolio management, USSD, SMS. >> Past e.g Fineract has already tested the Twilio SMS API and many partners >> deploy this. >> > > Fineract 1.x and Fineract CN has basic services for Identification (do you > mean KYC or authentication here? ). KYC, authentication is not all. Check > out these examples use cases. > > Both platforms have a basic way to manage Loan Portfolios and SMS > messaging? Are these not enough? What is your experience using them and > some draw backs? > >> There are examples such as >> *Accern API, * >> *HID Global Identification, * >> *Lokyata product API, * >> *Yodlee * >> *Plaid* >> *Alloy* >> *Difitek* >> >> This framework makes the Fineract platform more extensible with use of >> case specific third party services and better orchestration of deployments. >> >> > Are you trying to gather requirements around implementing a service that > will allow integration with the above APIs? Which of these are more > important to you? > >> Fineract does have external services integration with web hooks and >> developers can of course explore integrations at API level for individual >> use cases. However, a standardized framework is broadly missing to create >> the integration workflows as simple as a non technical person using his key >> to access these services on Fineract platform. >> >> Now, it is imperative that we look at tokenization, security, >> interop feasibility of such third party services one by one, and keep >> adding them. >> > > I keep hearing that the Identity service in Fineract CN needs > enhancements and I have no idea why? People who have seen the draw backs of > this service, if you can please explain to some of us the problems > currently being faced? > > > >> >> If as a partner organisation, you have already deployed such >> integrations, I would request your comments here. >> Any thoughts. 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