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 IBM® WebSphere® Multichannel
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
- WebSphere Multichannel Bank
Transformation 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
- WebSphere Multichannel Bank
Transformation 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 WebSphere Multichannel Bank
Transformation Toolkit 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.