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.