ACI Worldwide's MTS Operates Five Times Faster on New IBM Hardware and UNIX Operating System.OMAHA Omaha, city, United States Omaha (ō`məhä, –hô), city (1990 pop. 335,795), seat of Douglas co., E Nebr., on the west bank of the Missouri River; inc. 1857. , Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 1999-- Customers Running ACI's Money Transfer System on New RS/6000 S80 and New Version of AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. to Benefit ACI ACI American Concrete Institute ACI Arch Coal Inc ACI Airports Council International (formerly Airport Associations Coordinating Council) ACI Automobile Club d'Italia ACI American Competitiveness Initiative Worldwide (Nasdaq:TSAI TSAI Transaction Systems Architects Inc ), a leading international provider of enterprise electronic payments solutions, and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) today announced a significant leap in the performance of ACI's Money Transfer System (MTS (1) See Microsoft Transaction Server. (2) (Modular TV System) The stereo channel added to the NTSC standard, which includes the SAP audio channel for special use. 1. MTS - Message Transport System. 2. ) following tests on the new IBM RS/6000 S80 server. The results give MTS customers using the RS/6000 S80 the engine power to process electronic funds transfer See EFT. (application, communications) electronic funds transfer - (EFT, EFTS, - system) Transfer of money initiated through electronic terminal, automated teller machine, computer, telephone, or magnetic tape. messages at a rate of 225 messages per second. The benchmark study was performed at IBM's Solution Partnership Center in Waltham, MA, using the RS/6000 S80, 12-way server. In a controlled test, modeling a financial institution's production funds transfer operation, ACI's MTS processed 288,000 funds transfer messages in less than 21 minutes. This milestone is over 5 times faster than previous MTS benchmark bests running the same test. "The benchmark study of MTS on the S80 clearly demonstrates that the performance and scalability critical to the banking industry's transaction processing operations is easily supported by the RS/6000 platform," said Jonathan Edwards, chief technical officer for ACI Worldwide's Corporate Banking Group. MTS is a real-time, high-value payments processing, liquidity management and risk management system offering a complete integrated payments solution for domestic and international funds transfer. One key advantage of MTS is its capacity to accommodate vast increases in transactions. "With the introduction of the RS/6000 S80, IBM demonstrates its commitment to delivering the world's most powerful UNIX servers for e-business at an affordable price," said Rod Adkins, general manager, IBM RS/6000. "IBM will continue to work with ACI Worldwide to assure its customers benefit from the industry's most reliable, scalable UNIX servers while continuing to offer world class support for AIX and Project Monterey." Additional information about the IBM RS/6000 is available at http://www.rs6000.ibm.com ACI Worldwide (Nasdaq: TSAI) is helping customers change the way the world works with software products developed for consumer banking, corporate banking, retail and system solutions. The company maintains operations in the Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa and Asia/Pacific and is a leading international provider of software for electronic commerce and electronic payments. ACI Worldwide distributed solutions are used by more than 2,100 customers in 76 countries. Visit ACI Worldwide on the Internet at www.aciworldwide.com. This press release contains forward-looking statements made pursuant to the "safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. You are cautioned that such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that could significantly affect expected results in the future from those expressed in any such forward-looking statements made by, or on behalf of the company. Certain factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are contained in Exhibit 99.01 of the Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. Annual Report on form 10-K. |
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