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| [BANK-VERLAG, GERMANY] Providing both publishing
and IT services for Germany’s 300
private banks, Bank-Verlag relies on the
HP NonStop S86006 platform to handle its
transaction-intensive payments application.
The payments system comprises multiple
components: ATM/POS processing is a classic
online transaction processing application. It
also includes the batch-oriented “blacklist”
program that keeps track of lost and stolen
cards and automatically confiscates them if
they’re discovered being used.
To meet the German banking supervision authority’s requirement that banks provide direct access to customer and account information, the central account register of Bank-Verlag’s payments system—a huge database with more than 50 million accounts—handles these queries effortlessly. Bank-Verlag also uses its NonStop servers for electronic banking, Eurocheque card production, and PIN-letter generation.
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The superior mixed workload capability of NonStop servers was a key factor in Bank-Verlag’s platform selection. “The ability of the NonStop server to handle OLTP, batch, and ad hoc queries concurrently, with no degradation of service, is extremely important,” stated Wolfgang Breidbach, head of system services at Bank-Verlag. Unrivaled uptime, support for open standards, and low total cost of ownership were also important considerations. The upcoming platform move to the Intel® Itanium® microprocessor is also viewed with favor; Breidbach stated that the significant boost in processing power will deliver tangible benefits in running Bank-Verlag’s mission-critical applications.
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