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EuroConex Builds Scalable, Cost-Efficient Transaction Processing Solution For Merchants And Banks
White Papers The company used Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server to build mPower, a fully automated merchant information system containing merchant demographic and transaction information. euroConex provides an integrated payments processing service...
[September 5, 2007, 0:00]
IChip Speeds Time-to-Market And Transaction Processing Time For VeriFone POS Terminals
White Papers Based in San Jose, California, VeriFone, Inc.is a global leader providing secure electronic payment technologies. VeriFone began designing their first Internet Protocol (IP)-enabled communication module shortly after the introduction of the modular...
[January 10, 2006, 23:00]
BEA Re-suits Tuxedo
News BEA Systems on Monday will tie its workhorse transaction processing software, Tuxedo, to the world of Java programming and Web services. The server software company has built a "connector" between its WebLogic Java application server line and...
[February 10, 2003, 9:36]
Desktop Batch Processing
White Papers Today, online transaction processing applications can downsize from mainframes to microprocessors. Commodity database systems, operating systems, and hardware came of age in 1993 - they surpassed the online transaction processing performance of...
[June 2, 2006, 0:00]
NonStop Solutions From HP: Powering The Most Demanding Business-Critical Applications For The Adaptive Enterprise In Real Time
White Papers With the sale of the first NonStop server to run Citibank's ATM network in 1976, NonStop technology created the market for online transaction processing. The NonStop architecture delivers this high level of performance over other platforms because...
[October 7, 2004, 0:00]
Releasing Resources To Support Growth - The Long-Term Benefits Of Finance Transformation
White Papers This study discovers how companies have deployed the savings they've realized so far through their transaction-processing improvement efforts. This survey of senior finance executives in North America reveals that the finance function has freed...
[May 11, 2008, 0:00]
Intel's Xeon Arrives This Summer
News The Xeon still isn't the eight-way parallel Corollary multi-processor which the industry was hoping for but it will be the fastest Pentium II system for transaction processing applications, effectively replacing the Pentium Pro as the ideal server...
[May 20, 1998, 7:00]
IBM Unmuzzles Low-end 'Raptor' Mainframe
News IBM's latest mainframe is available with the option of a cut-down operating system that only runs newer software, and does not run traditional mainframe software such as CICS transaction processing. Raptor, the newest model in IBM's old-guard...
[February 18, 2002, 9:19]
India Wins Lion's Share Of Outsourcing
News Business tasks sent out to India from US and other firms include running call centres for banks and credit card companies, technical support desks and back-office transaction processing. Most of today's offshore BPO opportunity remains at the level...
[July 9, 2003, 8:16]
Linux To Get Mainstream Server Tests
News The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) has released three speed tests, or benchmarks, that correspond to three tests from the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). The tests correspond to the TPC-C, TPC-H and TPC-W tests from the...
[March 3, 2003, 8:03]
U.K. Financial Settlements Leader Upgrades With HP NonStop ServerNet Cluster Architecture
White Papers This implementation doubled the transaction processing capacity to handle sudden peaks in demand and it is an easy upgrade path to accommodate future volume growth and business expansion. This move has enabled the company to double its transaction...
[April 9, 2005, 0:00]
Benchmark Wars
News The TPC-C benchmark test is considered the de facto standard for online transaction processing (OLTP) database benchmarks, primarily because TPC-C attempts to simulate real-world OLTP database transactions.
[August 9, 2002, 19:33]
Leading Health Insurer Speeds Transactions And Affordably Meets New Business Demands
White Papers The integration solution required considerable manual intervention, was hard to adapt to new types of transactions, and often failed to meet required transaction-processing speeds. The transition increased transaction-processing speed by more than...
[December 18, 2007, 23:00]
Oracle: The New Industry Bad Boy?
News At the Windows 2000 launch in February, chairman Bill Gates proudly announced Microsoft had achieved a world-record transaction processing result with Windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000, running on a dozen Compaq ProLiant servers.
[July 6, 2000, 9:26]
Oracle Gears Up For 9i Release
News We are basically saying, 'If you have online transaction-processing applications, and you want to scale but not run a mainframe, we are your only choice,'" Jacobs said just hours before an appearance here Monday at the International Oracle Users...
[May 2, 2001, 8:40]
Big Blue Retreads Its Mainframes
News To wit, IBM is playing up the transaction-processing, security and VPN capabilities of its latest release of its mainframe operating system, OS/390 Release 2, version 8. IBM has coined the term "e-transaction processing" to highlight the e-business...
[August 24, 1999, 9:22]
Microsoft To Oracle: Cease And Desist
News He said Microsoft was unhappy with his latest stump speech, in which Ellison said that the only software that runs well on SQL Server running clustered Windows 2000 servers is the Transaction Processing Council's TPC-C benchmark suite.
[October 27, 2000, 8:32]
Google Launches Online Payment Platform
News Merchants using the system will be charged a processing fee of 20 cents per transaction, plus 2.2 percent of the relevant purchase price. Kamangar said the regular transaction fees are less than those charged by credit card companies, which can be...
[June 29, 2006, 11:35]
Veritas Invests In Utility Computing
News Veritas expects the Ejasent transaction to be completed by the end of January. The other tool that Veritas gains in the Ejasent transaction is called MicroMeasure, which is a system that lets companies measure usage of computing resources for...
[January 7, 2004, 14:30]
Oracle: The New Industry Bad Boy? Pt II
News The TPC-C benchmark is an industry-standard test that measures transaction-processing-system throughput, in terms of orders processed per minute. Microsoft claims its benchmark results were invalidated because the Transaction Processing Council...
[July 6, 2000, 9:36]
