American Savings Bank Chooses Vision Solutions High Availability Software to Play Key Role in eCommerce Initiative.Business Editors IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2000 Vision Solutions Inc. ("Vision"), a global leader in the development and marketing of Information Availability Management Solutions, Monday announced that American Savings Bank savings bank, financial institution that, until recently, performed only the following functions: receiving savings deposits of individuals, investing them, and providing a modest return to its depositors in the form of interest. , a $2 billion consumer bank in central Connecticut and a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Financial Holdings (Nasdaq: AMFH), has selected Vision Solutions' high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. product, Vision Suite(TM), as a vital link in its eCommerce strategy. "We've always been concerned that a single system is a single point of failure, and now that we're moving into online web banking, we need our systems available 24 hours a day," said Richard Dennison  This article or section is an autobiography, or has been extensively edited by the subject, and may not conform to Wikipedia's NPOV policy.Please see the relevant discussion on the . , Chief Information Officer at American Savings Bank. "The installation of Vision Suite is an extremely important first step towards implementing and ensuring a successful eCommerce initiative." As companies step up their eBusiness efforts, eCommerce applications will rise from 4% of the total application portfolio today to 35% in 2003, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
"American Savings Bank recognized that providing online services also means ensuring 24x7 access to its information," said Vision Solutions Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer, Chris Turner
Chris Turner (born September 15, 1958 in Sheffield, where he attended Myers Grove School) is an English football manager. . "For the online banking industry, system reliability is not enough. Any downtime, whether planned or unplanned, means poor customer satisfaction. The need for high availability and disaster tolerance has become a critical factor for financial institutions and for any company participating in the eEconomy. Vision's technology is powerful and proven." As American Savings Bank shifts from being an online bill-paying service to a complete, interactive customer online bank, Vision Suite will be used for both high availability and disaster recovery. Once Vision is fully integrated, the company plans to house its two AS/400 systems in separate locations, thereby ensuring instant recovery from disasters such as power outages This is a list of famous wide-scale power outages. 1965
Dennison said that American Savings Bank's selection of Vision's high availability software over competitive offerings was an easy decision, and based mainly on his confidence in the sales and support staff at both Vision Solutions and Vision Business Partner, Lighthouse Computer Systems. "Support is one of our biggest priorities when working with any vendor and Vision and Lighthouse demonstrated a level of competency we could trust," he said. Lighthouse Computer Services Data processing (timesharing, batch processing), software development and consulting services. See service bureau, SaaS and ASP. , also an 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) Premier Business Partner based in North Smithfield, R.I., is working with American Savings Bank to ensure the successful implementation of its high availability system early this year. "American Savings Bank is going through a dynamic change by fully immersing its customers and its business into eBanking," said Al Columbus, Lighthouse Director of Sales. "Its choice of Vision's high availability product suite is a credit to Vision's proven 24x7 technology. We're committed to helping American Savings implement the most secure and stable eBusiness technology infrastructure possible." As an IBM Premier Business Partner, Vision Solutions now dominates the information availability management market. Its recent announcement of a merger with South African-based Idion Software, a leading software and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. provider of availability solutions, places Vision in the premier position as a provider for high availability, clustering and partitioning solutions on the AS/400. About Vision Suite Vision Suite is an unsurpassed High Availability solution consisting of three independent, but integrated, modules: OMS/400 Object Mirroring System, ODS/400 Object Distribution System and SAM/400 System Availability Monitor. Vision Suite delivers disaster recovery, group simulcasting, object management and scalability, workload balancing and horizontal growth, to an AS/400 environment. About American Savings Bank American Savings Bank is a $2 billion retail bank serving central Connecticut for more than 137 years. With 17 branches in 12 Connecticut towns, including 10 drive-through and seven walk-up ATMs, American Savings is one of Connecticut's largest independent banks. American Savings Bank can be found on the Internet at www.americansb.com. American Savings Bank is a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Financial Holdings (Nasdaq:AMFH). About Lighthouse Computer Systems As an IBM Premier Business Partner, Lighthouse offers premium skills and support to its customers through a highly skilled team of technical professionals. Its services include RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. System/6000 disaster and recovery planning; PC, AS/400, RISC System/6000, and Mainframe Connectivity; LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. and network cabling; network design and implementation; client/server integration and system performance analysis and tuning. Lighthouse can be found on the Internet at www.lighthousecs.com. About Vision Solutions Inc. Founded in 1990, Vision Solutions Inc., is a global leader in the development and marketing of Information Availability Management Solutions. These solutions include high availability and data protection for the IBM AS/400 midrange computer A medium-sized computer system or server. Midrange computers encompass a very broad range and reside in capacity between high-end PCs and mainframes. They cost from $25,000 to more than a million. IBM's AS/400s (iSeries) and HP's 3000 and Alpha families are examples. , and data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. between most databases on major platforms including Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and AS/400. Vision's innovative products are used to maintain the integrity and accuracy of data in a wide variety of industries such as banking/finance, government/education, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, transportation, and gaming. Vision Solutions is an IBM Premier Business Partner and a member of the Microsoft Alliance for Data Warehousing, and maintains technical partnerships with Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase, Informix and Progress Software. Vision Solutions was recently named to Deloitte and Touche's "Fast 500" list of fastest growing U.S. technology companies and placed 11th among the 50 fastest growing Southern California companies. Vision can be found on the Internet at www.visionsolutions.com and can be reached via email at info@visionsolutions.com. Vision Solutions, Vision Suite, OMS/400, ODS/400, SAM/400 and SYMBIATOR are trademarks of Vision Solutions Inc. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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