The Application is a proven effective standard product for the entire processing of all transactions in the documentary foreign trade business, guarantees and loans. The application can easily be implemented in any given infrastructure because of its workflow architecture, in which various services are integrated for the interfaces (both in- and output interfaces) and the variety of supported platforms. All required communication interfaces are covered. As a result of the provided MyModelbank that is part of the standard product, it is not necessary to create a completely new department organization, but by means of an immediately applicable example solution, a list of amendment requests can be created and transferred instead, without the need of creating complete and detailed specifications of all requirements before.

The application is based on our TradeDesign development platform. TradeDesign in turn was developed to create and to run standard banking applications. This development platform allows to match longer release cycles of the software product (and the gained expertise resulting thereof) with shorter cycles of the technical platforms (server and storage technologies, standards for user interfaces). Furthermore, the development platform combines the processes for realizing customizations with the ability to accomplish a release at the same time. The key features of the TradeDesign development platform are:

• Extending or modifying the application by IT specialists and/or application developers. At the same time the stability of the standard product is obtained.
• Abstracting of the application logic from the technical framework. Thus, the whole application can easily be customized according to the ever-changing technical requirements, so that it can easily be adapted to a new application platform, new user interfaces or a new interface design. As a result, the actual application logic just needs slight adaptations.
• Developing the application by using business rules. The development platform TradeDesign is part of the license. Thus, the bank can enhance or extend the application anytime without the need to pay any further license fees.

Moreover, it is also possible to create processes for completely different business segments based on the existing platform. These processes can, for example, use also the existing interfaces and/or static data and can be administered collectively.

• A high usability is ensured by
  • a freely selectable input sequence - pausing and reloading of processes is possible anytime.
  • checking the entered content directly after leaving the field.
  • error and hint messages in clear text that are positioned right next to the relevant field, field- and transactionwise online help system.
  • minimizing the effort for input by copying an existing business and taking over the relevant data.
  • context-controlled enabling/disabling of fields, defaulting of data and text fields.
  • guiding the users through the application with default values, which can be overridden in individual cases.
  • marking modified fields graphically.
• Integrated processing of structured incoming messages (e.g. SWIFT).
  • Assigning imported incoming messages to the relevant case.
  • Automatic filling of the data fields out of the relevant fields of the incoming message.
  • Displaying the not assigned fields of the incoming message. It is possible to take over the content via Cut & Paste.
• Not only standard reports, but also customized reports can be generated by a report generator anytime.
• High customizability which also provides a high level of automation.
• New data fields which can easily be added (both in the database and on the panels) by using the application (e.g. for the interface).
• Variable workflow for a highly automated workflow and for avoiding routine jobs.
• Background processing independent from the user.
• A modular structure that facilitates installation-specific enhancements (modifications of central modules are immediately effective in all transactions). The standard application includes German and English as languages for the user interface and messages. Translation tools are also part of the scope of supply.