Guidewire Sets New Performance Standard for Insurance Claims Solutions.Guidewire ClaimCenter([R]) supports 8,500 concurrent users on 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) System x and System p server combination SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Guidewire Software([R]), a leading global provider of solutions to property and casualty and workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. insurers, today announced that it has set a new standard for performance and scalability of insurance claims solutions, achieved on an IBM (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : IBM) hardware platform. Guidewire ClaimCenter successfully met a claims performance benchmark at the IBM Innovation Center in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , while supporting 8,500 simulated concurrent users. Median response time was 0.3 seconds and 90th-percentile response time was 2.5 seconds. In addition, horizontal scalability results prove that the solution can scale to support considerably higher user populations by using additional hardware. In the test, ClaimCenter ran on a cluster of nine IBM System x3850 application servers, each with 4 single core processors, and a single p570 database server with 4 Dual Core processors. Redhat 4 and Tomcat A popular Java servlet container from the Apache Jakarta project. Tomcat uses the Jasper converter to turn JSPs into servlets for execution. Tomcat is widely used with the JBoss application server. For more information, visit http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat. See Jakarta and JBoss. supported the application tier while 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 and Oracle supported the database tier. The database included 2.5 million claims, 5 million exposures, and 100 million activities together occupying 1 terabyte of space in an IBM DS8000 Storage System. Load was provided by 17 IBM System x servers together simulating 8,500 concurrent claim adjusters, repeatedly exercising a broad set of application functions 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. usage profiles based on actual data from leading insurance claims organizations. Additionally, IBM and Guidewire conducted some resiliency tests and Guidewire received IBM's "Storage System Proven" certification. "Guidewire recognizes the scalability and performance needs of P&C insurance carriers as they modernize their core systems," says John Seybold John Seybold may refer to:
The performance test was run on Guidewire ClaimCenter 4.0, the most recent release of the first complete, web-based claims system for the property and casualty insurance industry. ClaimCenter 4.0 provides application server clustering for virtually unlimited scalability. ClaimCenter supports IBM WebSphere software, the leading platform for mission-critical enterprise applications and IBM System p The System p5, formerly known as RS/6000 (for RISC System/6000), is IBM's current RISC/UNIX-based server and workstation product line. History Announced in 1990, the RS/6000 replaced the RT PC. servers. About Guidewire Software Guidewire Software is a leading provider of technology solutions to property and casualty and workers' compensation insurers. Guidewire delivers proven software to run core insurance operations, including billing, underwriting, policy administration, and claim management. The Guidewire Insurance Suite[TM] consists of Guidewire ClaimCenter[R], Guidewire PolicyCenter[R], and Guidewire BillingCenter[TM], which provide a modern, web-based platform for all lines of business. Guidewire is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices in Toronto, London, Munich, Paris, and Sydney. For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com. NOTE: Guidewire, Guidewire Software, the Guidewire logo, Guidewire ClaimCenter, and Guidewire PolicyCenter are registered trademarks; Guidewire Insurance Suite, and Guidewire BillingCenter are trademarks of Guidewire Software, Inc. |
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