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:
- Two predefined widget themes - a Windows® and
iPanel theme
- Enhanced widget communication
- Container widget, capable of wrapping other widgets
- Dojo support at the theme level, which can be used by widget-level
content
- Runtime enhancement - XML support that includes the ability to
split global files into smaller segments, enabling improved parallel
development
- Additional channel support - short message service (SMS) channel
support when integrated with an SMS gateway