FINEOS Proves Enterprise Scalability.Platform returns outstanding performance in high volume testing Volume Testing belongs to the group of non-functional tests, which are often misunderstood and/or used interchangeably. Volume testing refers to testing a software application for a certain data volume. DUBLIN, Ireland -- FINEOS Corporation, a global provider of innovative componentized software solutions for the insurance, government social insurance, and banking industries, today announced successful completion of scalability testing Scalability Testing, part of the battery of non-functional tests, is the testing of a software application for measuring its capability to scale up or scale out [1] of the FINEOS Enterprise Platform. Once again, the platform was rigorously tested and proved its resilience and capability. The test, performed at the 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) Innovation Centre in Hursley, UK, demonstrated that FINEOS delivers a high level of productivity and responsiveness under high-volume and complex scenarios. The scalability testing was designed to simulate actual "live business" demands and future processing requirements of the largest organizations within the FINEOS client base. The insurance, government and banking organizations that FINEOS serves often have complex business processes and demand a high level of functionality from their technological infrastructure. The FINEOS Enterprise Platform, which is fully thin-client, was tested with a characteristically complex and high-volume production load and delivered performance and scalability well in excess of traditional thick client or "green screen" legacy solutions. Online testing was done for a variety of realistic user scenarios, including data entry users, call center representatives, read-only (enquiry) access users, and benefit administrators. The use of real-life scenarios, as opposed to repetitive page request testing, provided distinct advantages including: a realistic versus idealised Adj. 1. idealised - exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence idealized perfect - being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a impressions of actual system behaviour, correlation with actual business process usage, and testing and resolution of unintended resource conflicts. Batch testing was also performed to determine the resiliency of the solution under high-volume stress. "Many institutions already rely on FINEOS solutions to support their high volume business, so we certainly expected these tests to be successful," says Michael Kelly This could refer to:
Final testing results included: * A demonstration of perfect scalability; 100% increase in throughput with each doubling of processors. * Ability to scale to support more than 10,000 real, concurrent users In computer science, the number of concurrent users for a resource in a location, with the location being a computing network or a single computer, refers to the total number of people using the resource at the same time. using a WebSphere Application Server 6 cluster of IBM mid-range (Power5) servers running AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. 5.3 with sub-second response times. This equates to more than 20,000 licensed users. * Impressive large-scale test results. At 10,000 users, more than 350 pages were processed per second, which translates to more than 10 million pages served over a standard 8-hour working day. * Notable processing ability. Within a 2-hour window, the payments management component was able to batch process more than 100,000 payments. With a typical monthly payment schedule and a distributed processing The first term used to describe the distribution of multiple computers throughout an organization in contrast to a centralized system. It started with the first minicomputers. Today, distributed processing is called "distributed computing." See also client/server. schedule, this equates to more than 2 million payments processed per month and would equate to a customer database size of greater than 20 million policy holders. Increasing the time window or hardware would allow FINEOS to scale beyond these numbers again. The IBM Innovation Center in Hursley is the ideal testing environment for replicating the high-volume, large-scale server infrastructure that exists in FINEOS' market base. "FINEOS is pleased that our partnership with IBM allows us access to such state-of-the-art facilities," says Mr. Kelly. "FINEOS is committed to developing resilient solutions that exceed performance expectations and our ability to test scalability in a demanding environment is crucial." About FINEOS Founded in 1993, FINEOS is a global provider of innovative componentized software solutions for the insurance, government social insurance and banking industries. The FINEOS Insurance suite is a front-to-back suite of solutions for customer relationship management, new business underwriting, claims management, payments processing, and policy administration. The FINEOS Banking suite is a front-to-back suite of solutions for customer relationship management and applications processing. FINEOS solutions are built on a common componentized enterprise platform designed with an open services oriented architecture (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) providing a basis for straight-through processing straight-through processing The direct exchange of cash and securities. Straight-through processing is a major objective for cross-border transactions that are generally much more costly to settle compared to domestic transactions. (STP STP or standard temperature and pressure, standard conditions for measurement of the properties of matter. The standard temperature is the freezing point of pure water, 0°C; or 273.15°K;. ), business process management (BPM), workflow automation See workflow. and decision support. The FINEOS Enterprise Platform also serves as a flexible infrastructure for legacy enrichment or enterprise business transformation initiatives. FINEOS solutions are delivering documented benefits for some of the world's leading insurance carriers, government institutions, bancassurers, retail banks and building societies. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and has offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Australasia. For more information, please visit www.FINEOS.com. About the FINEOS Enterprise Platform FINEOS has designed and engineered a customer and case centric, rules-driven, componentized product platform that delivers powerful core processing against an enterprise business model. The FINEOS Enterprise Platform underlies all FINEOS solutions and is available as the foundation for customer-led joint development efforts. FINEOS offers its clients the option of licensing the FINEOS Enterprise Platform or individual components as required to meet their specific business objectives. More information on the FINEOS Enterprise Platform can be found at www.FINEOS.com/platform. |
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