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- TimesTen/Transact: Real-Time Transaction Processing System
- TimesTen/Transact Transact is a real-time transaction processing system. It provides an infrastructure upon which to build very high-speed transactional applications, such as those used in securities trading, telecom billing, and online commerce. Application developers can focus on their business logic and rely on Transact to integrate messaging, data management, transaction...
- Tags: ICG Commerce Inc., Billing, Transaction Processing System, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-02-10
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- Future ERP
- Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...
- Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Oracle unveils Exadata 2 [video]
- At Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison previews the company's Exadata Version 2 computer. He says the new database computer is designed for online transaction processing and data warehousing. He adds that Exadata 2 can do faster processing at a much lower cost than can its biggest...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Analytics, Video, Larry Ellison, Computer, Productivity, Business Intelligence, Financial Planning, Storage, Data Centers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- IBM launches 'pureScale': Front runs Oracle's database attack
- IBM on Friday will launch a new database technology dubbed pureScale, which is designed to up the ante in transaction processing. The news comes ahead of Oracle's OpenWorld powwow next week. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is expected to take a bevy of shots at IBM's database capability as it touts...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Attack, DB2 pureScale, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- SalesMate+ Simple POS Software 3.0.5 (Windows)
- Manage the day-to-day activities of your Sales at your fingertips using our new generation software Salesmate +, an ultimate, general purpose inexpensive Point Of Sale Software. This Point of Sale package is designed specially for independent, single-store retailers / wholesale shops. This easy to use POS software enables you to...
- Tags: Point-of-sale, Microsoft Windows, KTS InfoTech
- Software downloads 2009-10-01
- Oracle's Q1: "We grew faster than SAP"
- Oracle Corp., which is facing a delay of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, today reported first quarter non-GAAP earnings of $1.5 billion, or 30 cents per share, a three-percent increase over the year-ago quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $5.1 billion, a 7 percent drop from last year. Wall Street...
- Tags: Acquisition, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., SAP AG, Earnings, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, GAAP, Corporate Law, Databases, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- My PayPal credit card beef, Part II: PayPal responds
- Ebay & PaypalDoesn't it equal "double-dipping" when both Ebay AND Paypal charge a seller when (1) an item sells on Ebay, and (2) a seller receives his payment through Paypal? A seller pays to post an item, pays when/if it sells, then has to pay Paypal again when he receives...
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, PayPal, credit card, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Qilu Bank Supports Up to 300,000 Online Transactions Daily With Powerful Database Platform
- Qilu Bank formerly Jinan City Commercial Bank is a commercial bank in China with 69 branch offices and more than 350 ATMs. It offers a wide range of personal and business banking services including loans, deposits, mortgage lending, fund transfers, agency payments, and wealth management services. At the end of...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Banking, Application Performance Management, Databases, Financial Services, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- SOA's squishy paybacks revisited
- A couple of years back, I posted some observations on the issues around SOA payback. Some analysts still say there has been little to no payback from these efforts. Since SOA payback is still such a raw and confusing issue, here is an updated reprise of that post: ...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Payback, SOA, Service, Business Agility, David Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- Coca-Cola Teaches The World To....
- "Participating in the community of the consumer." I love that phrase. That's the way Jim Keyes, Blockbuster CEO described their Facebook group - which is for the most part, despite all our conversations to the contrary, is what most people think of when you say "community" or "social network"...
- Tags: Facebook, Fan, Coca-Cola Co., Beverage, Customer, Machine, Coke, Coca-Cola Freestyle, Food & Beverage, RFID, Manufacturing, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Web Retailer Handles 1,000 Percent Order Volume Spikes With Powerful ERP Solution
- In the crowded world of e-commerce, Woot provides a highly differentiated online-shopping experience by offering rock-bottom prices on a single item each day. Steadily rising traffic to its main Web sites led executives to evaluate the scalability of its Sage Pro enterprise resource planning system. Because the Sage system lacked...
- Tags: Web, ERP, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- VocaLink Ensures Secure High-Volume Transaction Processing With Unified, Flexible Infrastructure
- VocaLink is a specialist provider of transaction services to banks, their corporate customers and Government departments. In 2000, with automated payment volumes up 50% in the previous five years, the payment landscape was set to change permanently. In addition, and of equal importance, was the industry transition to the Single...
- Tags: Payment, VocaLink, Operational Accounting, Finance
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- SaaS News: NetSuite, Northgate Arinso, Taleo
- Lots of coolness in the SaaS world... I took a number of interesting briefings this last week or so. All of them were positive, interesting and solidly focused on the SaaS Software as a Service market. So, in no particular order, let’s get...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Taleo Corp., NetSuite Inc., Northgate Arinso, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- Cisco Unified Computing System Extended Memory Technology Overview
- The processor, memory, and I/O are three of the most important subsystems in a server. All are critical to a server's workload performance and reliability. At any given point, one of these subsystems tends to become a performance bottleneck. When an application is described as CPU, memory, or I/O bound,...
- Tags: Performance, Memory, Cisco Systems Inc., Subsystem, Performance Management, Flash Memory, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2009-03-01
- Newcastle Permanent Accelerates Transaction Processing
- As a complete retail financial services organization, Newcastle Permanent Building Society provides a genuine alternative to traditional banks for meeting the day-to-day needs of personal and business banking members. The company wanted to maximize performance and reliability for core Banking and ensure high availability to meet 24x7 ATM and Internet...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Transaction Processing, Banking, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Financial Services, Data Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- Deutsche Borse AG Triples Speed of Xentric Order Routing System With In-Memory Database
- Deutsche Borse is one of the largest stock exchange organizations in the world. Its product and services portfolio includes the entire process chain, from stock dealing and futures trading, clearing and processing of orders, custody of securities and the provisioning of market information, through to the development and operation of...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Deutsche Borse, Service Level Management, Investment, Storage, Databases, It Operations, It service Management, Finance, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- More Checks....Same-Day Funding!
- The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act (or Check 21 Act) is a United States federal law (public Law 108-100) enacted into law October 28, 2003 by the 108th Congress. The law allows the recipient of a paper check to create a digital version, thereby eliminating the need for...
- Tags: Check21.com, Check 21, Financial Services
- Presentations 2009-02-17
- Universite Laval Ensures High Availability of Mission-Critical Applications and Enhances Reporting
- Universite Laval wanted to ensure high availability of the university's mission-critical PeopleSoft Enterprise financial applications, which must be available 19 hours per day, seven days a week and gain an easy-to-use and maintain middleware infrastructure - reducing IT requirements and costs for the university's limited number of IT staff members....
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Information Technology, University, High Availability, Transaction Processing, Universite Laval, Strategy, Databases, Middleware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- Gemstone Gemfire Enterprise
- I had the opportunity to speak with Gemstone Systems' Richard Lamb, President, and Raj Kulkarni, COO, about Gemfire Enterprise. This product appears to take lessons from the grid computing world to expand levels of performance and scalability dramatically. They appeared to deal pretty well with my bad puns and I...
- Tags: Gemfire, Data, GemStone, Data Fabric, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- Operational Analysis of Processor Speed Scaling
- This brief announcement presents a pair of performance laws that bound the change in aggregate job queueing time that results when the processor speed changes in a parallel computing system. The laws require only lightweight passive external observations of a black-box system and they apply to many commonly employed scheduling...
- Tags: Performance, Analysis, Performance Management, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2009-01-21
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