Canvas Technology provides multiple components / services that address seven key dimensions that any customer facing application needs to worry about –

Customer Experience – The end application must provide an intuitive and easily navigable user interface with minimal to zero training needs for a typical end user to use the application. There must be a consistency in the manner in which the application behaves when the user accesses it using various devices. The application must be user centric and not business process centric!
Operational Efficiency – The end application must enable options to improve the operational efficiency of the users. This includes different categories of users – Developers, Operations and Business Managers, end Customers, etc.
Performance – The application must provide consistent and acceptable performance against identified user load scenarios. The application must provide ability for its performance to be monitored.
Analytics – The application must provide options for enabling and implementing analytics as well as supporting data visualization options needed for the analytics.
Risk Management – The application must provide alternatives to manage and control risk.
Integration – The application must provide options for integrating with underlying systems present in the bank using different protocols and message formats.
Security – The application must provide options to enable multiple levels of security based on the needs present at that point in time. Also, the solution must have been tested and validated against common hacking techniques like Cross Site Scripting, SQL Injection, Parameter Manipulation, etc.

Though Canvas technology comprises of a mix of these frameworks, from the Canvas App store perspective, not all these services are always needed. Most of them are used based on a particular scenario or requirement. For example, the Workflow services (part of Operational Services) and Limits Management (part of Risk Management) come into action only if the purpose of an App is a transaction or library maintenance.

There are few key concepts that are central to the modeling of the App Store and Apps. These are:

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