WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit is a Java EE component-based framework that greatly accelerates multichannel application development for banks, providing an integrated development environment on top of Rational® Application Developer.
Component-based application development is more cost-efficient and competitive than traditional methods. These benefits are realized through reduced requirements for software development skills and reduced development time. The value of these benefits continues to increase as the market demands increasingly sophisticated software applications at the same time that competitive pressures demand reduced time to market.
WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit is well suited for building web-based financial services applications such as bank branch systems as well as building solutions for a wide variety of retail delivery channels, including Internet banking, call centers, stand-alone kiosks, automated teller machines (ATMs), and mobile access terminals such as wireless access protocol (WAP) capable cellular phones. The toolkit's multichannel support and dynamic component composition provide the foundation used to simultaneously meet the requirements of each of these retail delivery channels.
The toolkit is built on Java, an open industry standard and the object-oriented programming language of choice. Because the WebSphere software platform for e-business adheres to open industry and Internet standards, your investment is well protected. These standards include TCP/IP, HTML, HTTP, J2EE (Java, JSP, JCA, JDBC, EJB, and so on), Web 2.0 and Web services. The components of WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit promote highly productive application development by supporting code reuse and the use of parameterization techniques to define business operations and their related objects. WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit preserves investment in existing enterprise systems by providing specially designed components that can communicate with these systems.
WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit is used to build applications with a multichannel architecture that extends the reach of a financial institution's information system services to all of its delivery channels. Financial institution services are most often supported by applications whose core logic and data reside on large-scale host systems. Financial service delivery channels, such as a bank teller application or an Internet banking application, must access transaction functions on these systems (for example, to transfer funds between accounts). The toolkit uses JCA connectors to integrate delivery channels with large-scale OLTP system. It includes components designed to handle all aspects of transaction processing for every channel: managing the user interface, providing navigation dialogs, gathering operation data, building host messages, processing host responses, logging transaction information, accessing financial devices, and more.
WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit is highly customizable and its application is not limited to the financial services industry. Consider the toolkit as a potential solution to your transaction processing requirements no matter what your industry is.
The toolkit runtime provides National Language Support (NLS) for the following languages in group 1: Brazil Portuguese, French, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Spanish. The toolkit also provides NLS for the following languages in group 2: Arabic. It also provides Bi-directional Languages Support (BIDI). The toolkit externalizes any end-user text or messages from runtime components in resource bundles.
WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit provides pre-tested, user-configurable application components that can be quickly assembled into a complete financial services application. WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit provides a number of tools that support the development of applications. All the tools are plug-ins of Rational Application Developer.