Database Sets Performance Record on PeopleSoft Analytical Application for Financial Industries.Business Editors PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2000 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 that its DB2 Universal Database running on an IBM RS/6000 S80 server has achieved a record-breaking benchmark performance on the PeopleSoft Funds Transfer Pricing Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) is a process used in banking to measure a funding source's contribution to overall profitability. External links
PeopleSoft Funds Transfer Pricing enables financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. institutions to accurately calculate product profitability, assigning cost and credit of funds across the entire balance sheet with a high degree of flexibility. Funds Transfer Pricing is part of PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management, a business intelligence solution that uses advanced analytic processing and data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse technologies, combined with information from ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. systems and external sources, to support operational and strategic analysis and decision making. "DB2 Universal Database provides technical advantages to our Enterprise Performance Management solutions through its multi-node, parallel computing architecture and efficient optimization," said Peter Gassner, vice president and general manager of PeopleTools, PeopleSoft's technology division. "The performance advantage of DB2 gives customers using PeopleSoft business intelligence applications faster access to the data and decision-making processes needed in today's competitive markets." DB2 Universal Database's total runtime of 5.36 hours for processing 5 million transactions with the PeopleSoft Funds Transfer Pricing solution was the best result recorded to date on any platform. The Funds Transfer Pricing 7.5 results were achieved using IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Extended Edition (EEE EEE eastern equine encephalomyelitis. EEE eastern equine encephalomyelitis. ) for AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. 6.1 on an IBM RS/6000 S80 server, running IBM AIX 4.3.3. This result also reinforces the strength of previous results recorded for PeopleSoft Activity Based Management, another PeopleSoft business intelligence application, in and DB2 Universal Database in November, 1999. More information on this benchmark can be found at www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/benchmarks. |
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