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Grupo STP Reduces Transaction, Processing Time and Improves New Product Development

Grupo STP wanted to integrate service-oriented architecture in projects for rapid development and launch of new products, enabling STP to efficiently achieve results and support ongoing growth - currently at 40% per year - in the customer base, which has reached 1.4 million. The challenge was to obtain detailed views...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Transaction Processing, New Product Development, Grupo STP, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Application Performance Management, Operational Planning, Product Marketing, Databases, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Marketing, Data Management

Case studies 2009-08-01

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

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

EJB and CORBA Integration

As the enterprise started heavily relying on computing power for its day-to-day activities, the need for managing all that larger amount of data attained critical importance. Hence, the past two decades was indeed dominated by Data Base Management Systems. Relational Database technology enabled the needed data management technology. Then came...

Tags: Transaction Processing, Integration, iCMG, Data Management, Corba, EJB, Databases, Storage, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Hardware

White papers 2009-01-01

AbeBooks Inc. Accelerates Information Delivery With Flexible, Extreme Transaction Processing Solution

AbeBooks Inc. wanted to enhance the online customer check-out experience while increasing Web site performance and scalability and ensure continuous data availability and transactional integrity in the event of a server failure. The challenge was to provide fast and reliable access to frequently used information, such as publication inventory data...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Transaction Processing, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet

Case studies 2008-08-01

Strategic Sourcing of Transaction Processing: From the Back Office to the Boardroom

The financial services industry is undergoing a radical transformation driven by globalization, deregulation, consolidation, and deconstruction of the vertically integrated business models common to transaction-processing businesses. In these uncertain times, unconventional business models that deconstruct traditional structures such as vertically integrated manufacturing and processing businesses are likely to offer more...

Tags: Boston Consulting Group Inc., Transaction Processing, Business Model, Strategic Sourcing, Back-office, Financial Services Industry, Globalization, Strategy, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-02-14

Medscheme Streamlines Transaction Processing and Virtually Eliminates System Downtime

Medscheme wanted to implement a scalable, stable solution capable of handling a high number of online transactions in real time from pharmacies throughout the country and eliminated scheduled downtime caused by requirement for batch processing, regular backups and payment runs. The challenge was to improve data integrity by consolidating nine...

Tags: Data Integrity, Oracle Corp., Transaction Processing, Downtime, Call Centre, Medscheme

Case studies 2008-02-01

BEA Tuxedo's Faster, More Efficient Transaction Processing Helps India's CDSL Grow From 50,000 to Three Million Accounts

With a growing business and excellent market potential, Central Depository Services India Limited CDSL faced a significant challenge. As business grew, the slow performance of its transaction processing application led to long queues at its branches. CDSL recognized that it needed a new application to handle an increasing volume of...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., BEA Tuxedo, Transaction Processing, CDSL, Middleware, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2007-10-01

Nonblocking Scheduling for Web Service Transactions

For improved flexibility and concurrent usage existing transaction management models for Web services relax the isolation property of Web service-based transactions. Correctness of the concurrent execution then has to be ensured by commit order-preserving transaction schedulers. However, local schedulers of service providers typically do take into account neither time constraints...

Tags: Web, Transaction, Transaction Processing, Web Service, University Of Hannover, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Data Management

White papers 2007-09-04

Ricoh Helps Transaction Processing Service Provider Speed Printing, Improve Customer Service

As one of the largest transaction processing service providers in the world, this company performs billions of transactions annually for hundreds of thousands of merchants, hundreds of corporations and financial institutions, and many government agencies. The challenge was to print stream includes thousands of four-page documents, previous output solution was...

Tags: Customer Service, Ricoh Corp., Transaction Processing, Printing, Application Performance Management, Business Services, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2007-03-23

Pkware Case Study: Financial Services Provider #10

The client is a leading provider of core financial institution processing, card issuer and transaction processing services, and mortgage loan processing for financial institutions, retailers, mortgage lenders, and real estate professionals. The company processes information for 7,800 financial institutions and over 100,000 retailers in more than 60 countries worldwide. The...

Tags: Financial, Financial Service, PKWare, Transaction Processing, Financial Company, Application Performance Management, Financial Services, Real Estate, Databases, Finance, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2007-02-22

Extreme Transaction Processing: Technologies to Watch

Extreme transaction processing XTP is an emerging application style aimed at enabling the implementation of large-scale, business-critical, transactional applications on the basis of distributed architectures implemented by leveraging commodity hardware and standards-based software. This Gartner research discusses a set of emerging XTP-enabling technologies, including Azul Compute Appliances.

Tags: Azul Systems, Transaction Processing, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2007-02-13

Automating Property Transaction Processing

Jefferson County is a thriving suburban business, industrial and residential community. Jefferson County had to integrate a critical system in the Clerk & Recorder's Office with a program in the County Assessor's Office to enable timely processing of real-estate transactions. Jefferson County built the Hart Data Resolver Application HDRA on...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Transaction Processing, Jefferson County, Microsoft Office, Middleware, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software

Case studies 2007-01-01

Welcome to Google Checkout, that will be $3.14

Welcome to Google Checkout, that will be $3.14E-Mails in WHOIS...Google is always so smart... Look at the contact e-mails for googlecheckout.net and .org, they're for an MSN account... So intelligent...www.k00lstuff.comGoogle to know my purchaces!? No way!Google already has huuuge database of things people are interested in, their emails, discussions and...

Tags: Domain names, Sales channel, E-mail, Financial services, Banking, transaction processing, knowledge, Google Inc., Google Checkout, Google UseMyBank

Discussion threads 2006-05-28

PCCharge Express 5.7.1 (Windows)

PC Charge Express allows advanced credit card processing functions when used with an AMS ecommerce merchant account. PC Charge Express can accept credit cards and checks with ease. The software package also acts as a virtual terminal and is perfect for small businesses that require fast and convenient transaction processing,...

Tags: Credit Card, Transaction Processing, Microsoft Windows, Advanced Merchant Account Services, PC Charge Express, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Databases, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2006-02-02

On the Road With the Enterprise Application Environment and Open Distributed Transaction Processing

The Inspection Department of Vagverket handles vehicle information such as owner and insurance information, taxes, and inspection results. Because the National Road Traffic Registry is responsible for maintaining inspection records for a vast number of people, technological improvements are necessary to keep precise data and make it available on demand...

Tags: Unisys Corp., Transaction Processing, Enterprise Application, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance

Case studies

MSDN Webcast: ADO.NET Step by Step (Part 05 of 16): Transaction Processing (Level 200)

This webcast series is based on Microsoft ADO.NET Step by Step, by Rebecca M. Riordan (Microsoft Press, 2002). The presenter of this webcast focuses on transaction processing. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to create a transaction, create a nested transaction, commit these transactions, and rollback transactions if...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft ADO.NET, Transaction Processing, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts

Interplay of Energy and Performance for Disk Arrays Running Transaction Processing Workloads

The growth of business enterprises and the emergence of the Internet as a medium for data processing has led to a proliferation of applications that are server-centric. The power dissipation of such servers has a major consequence not only on the costs and environmental concerns of power generation and delivery,...

Tags: Pennsylvania State University, Disk, Performance, Transaction Processing, Disk Array, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers

Additional Resources

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