Cost-effective application development

The Branch 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 WebSphere(R) Studio 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 Studio Application Developer Integration Edition, 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.