Open Solutions Inc. said more than 900 applications have nowbeen downloaded from its DNAapp store since the service launched inMay 2011.

The app store allows clients, partners and independentdevelopers to create and share DNAapps to extend the functionalityof the Glastonbury, Conn., company's DNA core processingplatforms.

“Having access to DNA's open technologies has been like being akid in a candy store,” said Charlie Lai, chief information officerat the $1.7 billion FAIRWINDS Credit Union in Orlando,Fla. He said his credit union recently created a multi-accountquick origination app that reduces the time it takes to openmultiple new accounts by 90%.

FAIRWINDS can sell the app on the site. The $3.5billion Redstone FCU in Huntsville, Ala., in fact, launched a consultancy in June to market the applications ithad been selling on the DNAapp site.

“With regulations, margin compression and channel proliferationmaking it more difficult for community-based institutions tocompete, collaboration has become essential to help theseinstitutions accelerate innovation, reduce costs and strengthenrelationships,” said Louis Hernandez Jr., Open Solutions chairman/CEO.

“By working together, we can outperform, out-innovate and bemore efficient than the largest financial institutions in theworld,” Hernandez said.

Open Solutions competitor Symitar opened its own app store this summer. COCC, which runs the OpenSolutions platform through its service bureau, did the samelast fall.