Your Transactions, Your Technology, Your Future

The Challenge

High-volume message and transaction processing systems need a high-performance messaging infrastructure to move data across application networks — even if these networks consist of widely-distributed, heterogeneous components. And it helps if the messaging infrastructure can reduce the complexity of developing applications that span multiple operating systems and network protocols by insulating application developers from the details of the various network operating systems and interfaces.

Because large-scale transaction providers typically require high availability as well as enhanced performance, many fault resilient network applications are deployed, wholly or in-part, on HP NonStop S-Series and Itanium platforms. And many NonStop-based network operators have made major investments in time and money customizing and tweaking their NonStop transaction processing environments to maximize network performance. However, the messaging components of these networks have proven to be a challenge — NonStop operators have had few options for messaging infrastructures that crossed heterogeneous boundaries and reduced application complexity, yet were fault resilient, high-performance, and scalable — until now.

The Solution

Baldwin Hackett & Meeks, Inc. (BHMI) has created a comprehensive, integrated transaction messaging facility called Concourse — Transaction Messaging System™ (Concourse — TMS™) that addresses the limitations of messaging infrastructure options on networks incorporating NonStop platforms. Concourse — TMS is a powerful message-oriented middleware solution designed to send and receive transaction data among application processes distributed over multiple disparate platforms across a wide geographical area.

With Concourse — TMS, your organization can experience enhanced flexibility that allows you to control your transactions, your technology, and your future.

Your Transactions
Concourse — TMS can handle your network messaging needs if you have a single network platform residing in a localized environment or if you have dozens of network platforms distributed across the globe. It doesn't matter because Concourse — TMS provides secure, high-performance data transport through your network regardless of its size. Concourse — TMS features include:

Message-Handling Flexibility

• High performance
• Controlled safe storage of messages

Message Processing Flexibility

• Service-based message routing allows multiple TMS process instances to handle messages, thereby minimizing bottlenecks and increasing overall message throughput
• Supports load balancing across network entities

PCI-Compliance

• PCI-compliant network configuration database with full auditing of all configuration database operations
• PCI-compliant user logon management

Distributed Virtual Networking

• Separate logical TMS networks can be configured across shared platforms
• Integrated point of control can propagate changes across a single TMS environment without affecting other TMS environments that share the same host platforms
• System managers can safely reconfigure test networks without affecting other test or production networks

Fault Resilience

• Auto-restart of TMS network processes
• Auto-restart of TMS network nodes

Single Point of Control

• Authorized system managers can control a TMS network from any site node in the network
• Network control functions automatically propagate network configuration changes across an entire TMS network to eliminate the need to reconfigure network nodes individually

Open-Platform Services

• TMS seamlessly integrates application processes on disparate platforms into an integrated TMS networking environment

Your Technology
Concourse — TMS will help your company leverage its current software and technology by preserving or even enhancing your HP NonStop hardware investment. For example, TMS networks can coexist with NET24-XPNET networks executing on the same NonStop platforms. In fact, TMS facilitates the creation of functional gateways that can exchange message data between TMS and XPNET networks, and TMS interface libraries can be used to gradually replace XPNET interfaces without revamping your application architecture.

Concourse — TMS ensures that the skill sets of your in-house development staff will continue to be useful to you now and into the future. And your network operations staff will be able to manage its new TMS-based networking environment with minimal reorientation.

Your Future
Concourse — TMS gives you control of your future. You no longer have to feel pressured to migrate to a new transaction processing environment that is going to be high-risk, time-consuming, and expensive. You can also be assured that Concourse — TMS will support your increasing transaction volumes, provide you more flexibility for future technologies, and reduce your long-term support costs. And you can expand your networking reach across NonStop, Windows, Linux, and UNIX platforms while retaining the same control features and functions that you're used to. This made sense to MasterCard, which adopted Concourse — TMS to run its world-wide Debit Switch. This means that every MasterCard debit transaction around the globe runs on Concourse — TMS, swiftly, consistently, and without fail.

The sky really is the limit with Concourse — TMS. Call today to schedule a personal phone consultation to learn how your business can benefit from the flexibility afforded by Concourse — TMS.

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