New in this release

This version of the Bank Transformation Toolkit (BTT) has the following new and enhanced features:

WebSphere V7.0 and IBM Rational Application Developer V7.5.5 certification

BTT version 7.0 provides support for WebSphere V7.0 and IBM Rational Application Developer V7.5.5.

Smart banking components

BTT version 7.0 provides a set of components that collects information about application usage for exploitation by the business analytics engine.
  • Service usage collector: A server-side component that collects information about which business functions are being executed by the end user.
  • User behavior collector: A client-side component that collects information about how the widgets are being used.
  • A recommendation widget template that can be extended to display cross-selling recommendations identified by the business analytics engine.

Rule-based channel policy management

BTT version 7.0 allows rules-based channel control through IBM WebSphere ILOG rules or simple Java™ rules, based on a predefined channel data model.

Enhanced Integrated Development Environment

BTT version 7.0 supports model driven development and allows transactions to be split into separate files and developed in parallel. The enhancements consist of:
  • A dashboard to help perform model driven development from the data definitions, automatically generating view and format definitions.
  • The transaction editor now integrates type definition, supports model driven and parallel development, and has improved validation to ensure that definitions are correct.
  • The Bank Transformation Toolkit Application Wizard generates improved applications containing Bank Transformation Toolkit V7.0 updated samples.
  • An enhanced migration tool provides automatic migration support from Bank Transformation Toolkit V4 and V5.

Enriched and refined samples

BTT 7.0 provides enriched and refined samples to serve developers with different experience levels.
  • Showcase for developers allows rapid start-up with each Bank Transformation Toolkit component such as data, types, contexts, formats, operations, or processors.
  • "Hello World" sample application for all channels reduces the time to begin a new project.
  • Internet Banking and Teller Banking samples that provide real banking cases for you to use as a starting point.
  • Multi-channel Banking sample to be used as a reference guide for multi-channel banking solutions.

Enhanced Web 2.0 capabilities

BTT 7.0 has the following Web 2.0 capabilities: