After an application is deployed, the costs of operating the application
become an important measure of success. IBM® WebSphere® Multichannel
Bank Transformation Toolkit offers
cost savings that take effect at and continue beyond deployment. Following
are some of the ways that the toolkit reduces operating costs:
- Preservation of back-end systems
- Deployment of a toolkit-based application does not require changes
in existing business logic or transactions run in back-end systems.
The toolkit uses JCA connectors and invokers to connect existing back-end
systems and the application located on a middle-tier server.
- Reduced maintenance and operational costs
- The use of the network computing architecture, which is based
on Internet technologies, results in immediate cost savings on client
administration, code distribution, and server management. In addition, WebSphere Multichannel Bank
Transformation Toolkit solutions
minimize the code distribution that is required for incremental changes.
- Operational portability
- If operational conditions require that the application be moved
to another platform, this can be quickly performed since the application
is platform-independent.
- Ease of maintenance
- During operation, it is common to discover that application
changes are required. The environment and the distributed nature of
the application supports easy, quick, and universal application updates
no matter how many application delivery channels and users are affected.
- Adjustments to suit available system resources
- Technology and systems are subject to change; toolkit-based applications
can quickly be adapted to take advantage of more system resources
or compensated for a reduction in resources.
- Reduced workstation requirements
- The distributed architecture of toolkit-based applications reduces
the resources that are required to deliver the application to the
user. User workstations need to do little more than support the application
presentation and any directly connected peripherals. Adding workstations
is extremely cost-efficient since the server-based application can
be distributed to any number of client workstations.
- Common functionality across channels
- An application can be designed to provide a common set of functions
across multiple delivery channels. This consistent approach to service
delivery promotes user satisfaction and reduces the training time
needed if the user moves between channels.