Banks And Retail Merchants Worldwide Leverage GoldenGate Solutions For Dual-Site Transaction Processing And High Availability
GoldenGate Software Inc., the leading provider of transactional data management solutions, today announced that a growing number of banks and retail merchants are leveraging the GoldenGate high availability solution for their mission-critical transaction processing systems and are specifically using the GoldenGate D24 product to perform dual-site processing. GoldenGate D24 for the ACI BASE24 system, the payment processing platform of choice for ATM and point-of-sale (POS) networks worldwide, was developed by GoldenGate and certified by ACI Worldwide, a strategic technical and channel partner of GoldenGate.
Today, banks and retail merchants are experiencing more stringent requirements around the high availability of their transaction processing and payment systems. Dual-site or "active-active" is a specific implementation where two systems process transactions simultaneously, while ensuring both are fully synchronized. Sharing the processing load across two systems provides increased capacity and therefore optimal performance during peak times, thus maintaining the highest levels of availability. Additionally, the GoldenGate solution in a dual-site processing environment protects transactional data, enabling the network to continue to function without interruption even if one of the systems is affected by a planned or unplanned outage.
The GoldenGate D24 product allows bi-directional synchronization providing the highest level of availability and immediate failover in the event of an outage. Additionally, the GoldenGate solution can be deployed without significant BASE24 configuration and D24 provides advantages in the area of settlement processing and other key business operations for banks and POS merchants. This is the only product to support the dual-site features of the BASE24 product, further testament to GoldenGate's commitment to the BASE24 user community for banking and retail.
As more and more banks and POS merchants explore the many benefits to dual-site processing, the ability of GoldenGate solutions to move and manage large volumes of transactions across diverse environments makes it the perfect complement to the BASE24 system. Valero Energy Corporation, a Fortune 500 company and one of the United State's largest retail operators, ForeningsSparbanken, a leading Swedish bank, and Wescom Credit Union, one of the largest credit unions in the United States, are among the pioneering organizations that have turned to GoldenGate for a reliable, easy to implement solution that requires little or no configuration of their core BASE24 system.
"Implementing a dual-site production environment has improved availability significantly," said Raymond Tang, Programming Analyst for Wescom Credit Union. "The GoldenGate solution enhances the core BASE24 software, enabling us to process large transaction volumes in real time between two machines, with any single machine capable of handling all transactions in the event of contingency. GoldenGate is part of a highly sophisticated business continuity plan at Wescom which ensures continued availability, accuracy and delivery of data."
"There are many important considerations and processing methods required for supporting a dual-site environment," said Tim Rathbun, executive vice president of marketing and product management for GoldenGate. "GoldenGate D24 is the only product that works seamlessly with BASE24 addressing conflict detection and resolution across systems as they operate transaction processing in a dual-site mode," added Rathbun. "We are working with many leading banks and retail organizations to pave the way to dual-site solutions, and help maximize their IT investment."
GoldenGate D24 for dual-site environments requires users to run the ACI BASE24 release 6.0, version 4 or a later version. For more information, contact sales@goldengate.com.
About GoldenGate Software
GoldenGate Software Inc. is the leader in transactional data management. GoldenGate provides technology for capturing, transforming, moving and verifying transactional data in real time across major databases and environments. Fortune 500 and large enterprises worldwide use GoldenGate(R) solutions to manage critical initiatives including high availability and disaster tolerance, and real-time data integration. Customers include Bank of America, Visa, Merrill Lynch & Co., Sabre Holdings, Southwest Airlines, Comcast and Overstock.com. GoldenGate broadens its global market reach through key relationships with ISV's, database providers and systems integrators, including ACI Worldwide, GE Healthcare, MySQL AB, Teradata, a division of NCR, and HP. A private company, GoldenGate is headquartered in San Francisco and can be found on the Web at www.goldengate.com.