Stretch Your Technology Investment

The Challenge

Many financial institutions, card brands, and retailers have invested heavily over the years in homegrown or custom online transaction processing (OLTP) software applications. Due to the need for continuous availability, many of these applications run on fault tolerant systems such as HP NonStop S-Series and Itanium platforms.

Because of the uncertainty that a major provider of OLTP software will continue to support its products on HP NonStop systems, companies are concerned that they may have to move their OLTP applications from their current NonStop hardware platforms and even migrate to different OLTP software – they see no alternative.

The good news is that there is a new, revolutionary transaction message middleware solution called Concourse – Transaction Messaging System™ (Concourse – TMS™) that can help businesses preserve their NonStop OLTP environments.

The Solution

Baldwin Hackett and Meeks, Inc. (BHMI), a leading provider of high-volume OLTP solutions, created Concourse – Transaction Messaging System (TMS) for the primary purpose of giving businesses a way to preserve their existing software and hardware investments.

TMS is a comprehensive, integrated transaction messaging facility that replaces and expands the capabilities currently provided by NET24-XPNET™. It supports high-volume messaging among application processes executing on HP NonStop S-Series and Itanium platforms.

In addition to HP NonStop S-Series and Itanium platforms, TMS has been designed for open systems deployment. Future TMS networks will be extended across Linux, UNIX, and Windows systems so application processes on these platforms can be integrated with NonStop application components into a seamless TMS networking environment. All TMS functionality available on NonStop platforms will also be available on all other supported platforms – TMS capabilities will transcend hardware boundaries.

With TMS, businesses can salvage the investment they have made in existing OLTP hardware and software in addition to saving themselves a significant amount of time and effort. The solution is simple – the solution is TMS.

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