The Bank Transformation Toolkit application development product can provide
cost savings at the earliest stages of development planning and all the way
to deployment. Here are some of the ways that the toolkit reduces development
costs:
- Less reliance on high-level programming skills
- From back-end connectors to user interface building blocks, the toolkit
provides components that are easy to understand and use. This increases the
size of the developer pool and reduces training costs.
- Write once and deploy on several platforms
- A toolkit-based application is portable across several platforms. Instead
of a costly "from-the-ground-up" development effort for each target platform,
you define the application just once and then manage the deployment to any
of the supported platforms.
- Faster application development with fewer developers
- The quicker an application can be developed the lower the cost. The toolkit's
pre-built components reduce the person-hours needed to complete an application.
- Improved development team communication
- The Rational® Application Developer and Websphere Integration
Developer provides team development environment.. A common repository
for the development products keeps the entire team synchronized and up-to-date.
This avoids costly duplication of effort and rework.
- Enhanced development using a graphical user interface
- With the Process Editor in WebSphere® Process Server, developers
can visually choreograph business processes for various applications. They
do not have to spend time working with different interfaces and low-level
APIs. Drag-and-drop tools allow them to define the sequence and flow of information
between different business logic activities. Individual business logic activities
and even entire workflows become building blocks that can be reused in developing
other applications. Further gains in productivity are possible because runtime
support for these new J2EE workflow capabilities is fully integrated in the
application server to deliver a single administration and deployment environment.