Credit Card Processors Customer Profile One of the top three credit card companies in the world uses DataKinetics® tableBASE® at the heart of their mission-critical mainframe transaction processing systems. They selected tableBASE as the basis of a complete re-engineering of their applications because it is the best-in-class solution for optimizing mainframe applications. tableBASE was designed to address the specific problems that high transaction rate organizations face today, and have faced for many years—getting as much processing done as possible in as little time as possible. Challenge Their online transactions systems were antiquated, and needed to be completely re-engineered. Weighted down heavily by I/O intensive applications, they needed to develop applications that were much faster, but still robust. They needed to stay on the mainframe to take advantage of its inherent scalability, security, capacity and reliability. They also needed the best technology—no half measures like DB2 buffering or fancy caching techniques. The preference was for a vendor-provided solution that was backed by solid and reliable technical support. They were reluctant to build an in-house solution due to the large development effort, testing, and ongoing maintenance—all very costly, both in the near-term and the long-term. Further, a vendor-provided solution would allow them to focus on their core competencies—developing applications that deliver new business and revenue. Solution Fortunately for the organization, DataKinetics had the perfect solution. tableBASE met the first qualification—it is a mainframe solution that allows them to retain their current applications and hardware. Second, it was (and still is) the best technology: the best-in-class solution for optimizing mainframe applications. tableBASE also satisfied the other requirements—DataKinetics has been providing mainframe software to mainframe operators for nearly 30 years and has a reputation for technical support excellence. Finally, a tableBASE solution is far more cost-effective than an in-house developed solution by a wide margin. Benefits With tableBASE-powered applications at the heart of its mission-critical applications, the biggest credit card company in the world can run 10,000 credit card applications per second, on average; peak values are much bigger. These applications are part of the value of the organization and were designed to last for 20- to 30-year life span.

Helps run 10,000 credit              card transactions per              second. Billions of data access               transactions per second. See the white paper:              Solutions for Financial               Institutions.