Features at
a Glance Improve Customer Service, Automate Processes
and Increase Accuracy
TransactionExpress
From a single screen, you can enter multiple transactions
to multiple accounts for one or more customers. TransactionExpress
puts all deposit and loan transactions in one convenient place,
so you can complete them simultaneously without launching
separate applications.
Single Sign-On
Access to TCBS: DNA and all related applications can be controlled
from one security authorization structure. A single username/password
combination can provide appropriate access to TCBS: DNA, other Open
Solutions products and third-party applications.
Microsoft Compatibility and User Familiarity
Because of its underlying open architecture, you can easily
link your financial institution’s data to Microsoft
Windows word-processing, spreadsheet and database applications.
Quick Navigation and Online Help
Navigation to frequently used functions is available directly
from all TCBS: DNA screens. And, it’s designed so you
can access information without leaving your current transaction.
User-defined “favorites” and online help can
be accessed through a slideout panel – an easily
accessible menu that pops out when you need it and slides
back behind your main transaction screen when you’re
done. Account lookups, searches for help and many other
subtasks can be completed without interrupting the transaction
at hand.
Workflow Wizards
TCBS: DNA includes intuitive wizards to guide your staff through
system tasks. From the first step to the last, each wizard
screen has a consistent look and feel, providing step-by-step
instructions alongside relevant data entry fields. By using
wizards for processes such as account creation, you can
further ensure that tasks are completed in a uniform manner
and that your employees are focusing on transaction details
rather than the software.
Marketing-Focused CIF
Our built-in, enhanced enterprise CIF gives you a centralized
view of your relationships with your customers, product holders,
employees and business partners. And, because the system
is people-centric and you don’t need an account to
be in the system, you can access information about both current
and prospective customers. You can use this information to
create customer-focused marketing campaigns and easily target
prospects.
Online Signature and Picture Verification
This identification information is available to all bank
personnel at any time, allowing them to provide prompt and
personal service at the teller line and the platform. Customers
are more easily identified without the need to ask for credentials.
This extra level of security protects the customer and the
bank from potential fraud activity.
Commercial Product Suite
For commercially-oriented institutions that want relationship-based
technology at the highest level, the Open Solutions’ optional
Commercial Product Suite is a bundled offering of powerful
commercial services. Its added functionality strengthens
TCBS’ embedded
commercial services for both loan and deposit products.
The Commercial Product Suite has the right solution: from
commercially-oriented products such as positive pay check
validation and reconciliation, enhanced commercial account
analysis, Memo-Post-Plus and wire transfer processing to
loan products like Open Solutions’ loan
participations, SBA loan servicing and reporting, shadow
accounting and commercial loan document preparation interface.
Relational Service Charging
This capability enables banks to design an array of pricing
routines uninhibited by the limitations of traditional
hard-coded pricing rules. It helps banks create rules-based
routines for both assessing and waiving service charges.
It also differentiates banks from competitors that offer
limited service-charging choices. Relationship Service
Charging can be a powerful tool for banks that sell commodity
products such as deposit, loans, investments and insurance.
It overcomes past limitations of designing pricing around
narrow, predefined choices defined by a core transactional
system.
Powerful and Flexible Lending System
TCBS: DNA supports all sorts of loans and aggregates loan information
for a particular customer on a single screen. It gives
you the ability to store photos of homes, cars and other
collateral along with incredible flexibility to manage
loan terms, rate structures, payment streams and escrow.
Even non-performing accounting, charge-off and collection
account management features are available. Offering this
level of flexibility can significantly differentiate you
from your competitors.
Secondary Market/Investor Reporting
TCBS: DNA provides all processing needed to manage and record
loans sold to FNMA and FHLMC, as well as to private investors.
The system interfaces with both Mornet™ and
Midanet™ for complete handling of electronic reporting
to these government-sponsored enterprises and private investors.
Fully-Integrated
Teller and Platform System
The system eliminates synchronization problems and data redundancies
associated with separate teller/platform systems by making
monetary and non-monetary modifications once at the database
level and then immediately displaying the changes across
the entire system. No special programming is required. Features
include automatic account number creation, integrated online
forms and the ability to print starter checks on blank check
stock as well as loan coupons.
Document and Form Customization
Rapid modification capability provides for a more personalized
customer experience with your financial institution. New-account
letters, birthday letters, customized forms and more are
part of everyday processing. TCBS: DNA provides the ability to
produce all deposit account documentation, including signature
cards and account disclosures. The Forms Viewer feature places
all required new account information directly onto the form
for on-screen viewing before printing. Required fields are
highlighted and TCBS: DNA will not allow printing of
a form until all required fields have been completed. Custom
online forms are created in a Windows Meta File (WMF) format,
allowing you and your employees to access them
directly from your branch file servers, eliminating unnecessary
bandwidth usage to a single centralized location. Employees
can view a form just before printing so they can fill in
any unchecked boxes or add information not found in the database,
giving the final form a completed, professional look.
Participation
Loans
For those institutions that have a focus on participation
lending, Open Solutions’ core processing platform provides
comprehensive support to fulfill participation loan processing
requirements while retaining full loan servicing capability.
The optional module supports the setup, transaction processing
and settlement of funds on loans to one or more participants;
threshold balances; payment application for FIFO and LIFO;
auto allocation of payments; auto advance of loan disbursements;
separate interest accrual for the master loan and each participant
portion; and full general ledger processing with full reporting
and remittance/ settlement processing.
Bank Check Management
TCBS: DNA supports an unlimited number of bank check accounts
with advanced capabilities, including real-time check issuing
via teller applications and automated reconciliation. The
ability to print checks from blank check stock eliminates
the need to keep check inventories, while batch creation
of bank checks for interest payments and disbursements streamlines
your processes. An optional capability allows you to import
bank check issue information from third-party systems – accounts
payable, payroll and more. Built-in positive pay functionality
verifies check number and amount to reduce fraudulent activity.
Premium Overdraft Functionality
Provides clients with a robust solution for the courtesy payment
of overdrawn items. Premium overdraft allows for process automation,
integrated risk management, significant revenue enhancement
and exceptional customer service. The application lets you
select the appropriate risk management criteria for allowing
customers to enter the program and provides daily monitoring
of the criteria so that customers may be deleted from or added
to the program.
Premium Overdraft is integrated
with Open Solutions’ Asset Collection Management System
and with Dynamic Messaging to help reduce the risk of writing
off overdrawn items. It has full support for presented items,
ACH transactions, teller transactions, ATM transactions and
PIN-based debit POS transactions.
Online Real-time
Product Setup and Management
Allows you to easily manage products based on your financial
institution’s predefined business rules. Examples include:
flexible relational service charges; unlimited tiered rates;
unlimited user-defined loan fees; and product variations.
Fully-Integrated Electronic Document Management
for Reports and Forms
Information on file
storage servers can be accessed quickly and efficiently via
the Web for viewing and printed directly on your system’s
laser printer.
Customer Process Automation
Optional integrated applications including Safe Deposit
Box Processing, Online Check Ordering and Check Image
Viewing help streamline your processes and services and
can be viewed directly within the platform system.
The American Bankers Association, through its subsidiary the Corporation for American Banking, endorses the check imaging and in-house and outsourced core processing solutions provided by Open Solutions as recommended solutions for community banks. This exclusive endorsement provides further assurance that our contemporary solutions and service delivery have been thoroughly researched, tested, and approved by bankers to support the industry's dynamic needs.