Extendable and adaptable applications

Information technology is fast changing and so is the financial services market. An application developed for the needs of today can rapidly become obsolete. To protect you from this, every Bank Transformation Toolkit solution has features that allow it to be easily extended and adapted. Changes can be made to match the evolution of IT systems, business expansion, business diversification, and other predictable or unforeseen shifts. Following are some of the ways that the toolkit allows you to compete instead of becoming obsolete:

Multichannel enabled
The multi-tier architecture enables component reuse among delivery channels. Transaction requests from every channel are handled by the enterprise systems in the same way as any other channel. This promotes uniform, consistent, and rapid deployment of financial services through all your delivery channels. New channels may be added as needed or as they become available.
Easy integration with existing (and upcoming) systems
The toolkit integrates easily with present and future systems because it is based on open Internet standards such as HTML, SSL, HTTP, XML, TCP/IP, JavaBeans™, Enterprise JavaBeans, JPA, WebServices, and JDBC. It includes JCA compliant SNA LU0 and LU62 resource adapters to facilitate its ability to develop applications that interact with other systems.
Platform portability and system scalability
Thanks to the portability of Java™ between operating systems and hardware platforms, toolkit applications can be ported from one operating system to another with minimal impact. You can easily change your branch platform (for example, from Windows® to Linux®), and you can also change the role played by your IT system components. For example, you may want to move part of the business logic from a branch system running on one operating system to a regional or centralized system based on a different operating system; moving the logic between server levels and operating systems is a simple procedure.
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) enablement
The toolkit enables customer applications to support Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The transaction flow can now be implemented using the Process Choreographer. When a complex transaction involves backend web services, the toolkit supports Web Services JAX-RPC and JAX-WS standard and it allows web service invocations from the toolkit's own business layer. On the other hand, the BTT business logic can be treated as a service to be reused by the other application systems. Furthermore, the web service interfaces of JCA SNA LU0/LU62 connectors are in readiness for the web service invocation for legacy connectivity.