Banks and Retail Merchants Worldwide Leverage GoldenGate(R) Solutions for Dual-Site Transaction Processing & High Availability.LISBON, Portugal -- The GoldenGate D24 Product for the 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 BASE24(R) System Enables 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. and Maximum Infrastructure ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). GoldenGate Software Inc., the leading provider of transactional data management solutions, today announced that a growing number of banks and retail merchants are leveraging the GoldenGate high availability solution for their mission-critical transaction processing systems and are specifically using the GoldenGate D24 product to perform dual-site processing. GoldenGate D24 for the ACI BASE24 system, the payment processing platform of choice for ATM and point-of-sale (POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale ) networks worldwide, was developed by GoldenGate and certified by ACI Worldwide, a strategic technical and channel partner of GoldenGate. Today, banks and retail merchants are experiencing more stringent requirements around the high availability of their transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. and payment systems. Dual-site or "active-active" is a specific implementation where two systems process transactions simultaneously, while ensuring both are fully synchronized. Sharing the processing load across two systems provides increased capacity and therefore optimal performance during peak times, thus maintaining the highest levels of availability. Additionally, the GoldenGate solution in a dual-site processing environment protects transactional data, enabling the network to continue to function without interruption even if one of the systems is affected by a planned or unplanned outage. The GoldenGate D24 product allows bi-directional synchronization providing the highest level of availability and immediate failover in the event of an outage. Additionally, the GoldenGate solution can be deployed without significant BASE24 configuration and D24 provides advantages in the area of settlement processing and other key business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets for banks and POS merchants. This is the only product to support the dual-site features of the BASE24 product, further testament to GoldenGate's commitment to the BASE24 user community for banking and retail. As more and more banks and POS merchants explore the many benefits to dual-site processing, the ability of GoldenGate solutions to move and manage large volumes of transactions across diverse environments makes it the perfect complement to the BASE24 system. Valero Energy Corporation Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO) is a Fortune 500 company based in San Antonio, Texas with 21,836 employees and annual revenue of more than $90 billion. The company owns and operates 17 refineries throughout the United States, Canada and the Caribbean with a combined , a Fortune 500 company and one of the United State's largest retail operators, ForeningsSparbanken, a leading Swedish bank, and Wescom Credit Union Wescom Credit Union is a credit union and financial services company serving Southern California. It has over $3.8 billion in assets and more than 295,000 members[1]. , one of the largest credit unions in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , are among the pioneering organizations that have turned to GoldenGate for a reliable, easy to implement solution that requires little or no configuration of their core BASE24 system. "Implementing a dual-site production environment has improved availability significantly," said Raymond Tang, Programming Analyst for Wescom Credit Union. "The GoldenGate solution enhances the core BASE24 software, enabling us to process large transaction volumes in real time between two machines, with any single machine capable of handling all transactions in the event of contingency. GoldenGate is part of a highly sophisticated business continuity plan at Wescom which ensures continued availability, accuracy and delivery of data." "There are many important considerations and processing methods required for supporting a dual-site environment," said Tim Rathbun, executive vice president of marketing and product management for GoldenGate. "GoldenGate D24 is the only product that works seamlessly with BASE24 addressing conflict detection and resolution across systems as they operate transaction processing in a dual-site mode," added Rathbun. "We are working with many leading banks and retail organizations to pave the way to dual-site solutions, and help maximize their IT investment." GoldenGate D24 for dual-site environments requires users to run the ACI BASE24 release 6.0, version 4 or a later version. For more information, contact sales@goldengate.com. About GoldenGate Software GoldenGate Software Inc. is the leader in transactional data management. GoldenGate provides technology for capturing, transforming, moving and verifying transactional data in real time across major databases and environments. Fortune 500 and large enterprises worldwide use GoldenGate(R) solutions to manage critical initiatives including high availability and disaster tolerance, and real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. integration. Customers include Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , Visa, Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. & Co., Sabre Holdings, Southwest Airlines, Comcast and Overstock.com. GoldenGate broadens its global market reach through key relationships with ISV's, database providers and systems integrators, including ACI Worldwide, GE Healthcare, MySQL AB, Teradata, a division of NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , and HP. A private company, GoldenGate is headquartered in San Francisco and can be found on the web at www.goldengate.com. |
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