SlaterLabs Etude™ Software sets new world performance records at HP’s European Benchmarking Centre.
Benchmark conducted by a joint team from HP, Microsoft, EDS and SlaterLabs.
GENEVA, 17 July 2007 ¾
SlaterLabs Inc. today announced the results of a series of
significant mission critical transaction processing benchmark tests
designed to determine the performance, reliability and scalability
of the Etude™ System, the first universal banking application built
entirely on Microsoft’s .NET Framework. The benchmark focused on a
realistic mix of complex banking transactions to ensure the
integrity of the results, simulating a large scale tier one bank
with over 10 million customers and 40 million accounts.
These results have established a number of new world records for
banking application software performance. Etude achieved a
staggering 7,129 business transactions per second throughput over a
sustained business day period without dip or failure; more than
69,000 database batches per second throughput over the same business
day period; and less than .045 second response time for all
transactions throughout all periods.
Furthermore, exhaustive testing for horizontal and vertical
scalability demonstrated consistent linear growth behaviour results,
thereby guaranteeing optimised utilisation of infrastructure
resources for configurations based on individual customer processing
needs.
Testing took place at HP’s European Benchmarking Centre in
Böblingen, Germany between 2nd and 11th July 2007. The benchmark
used HP’s latest and most technologically advanced HP Integrity
Superdome running Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005 database. It also
comes at a time when the four companies are simultaneously
announcing enhanced collaborations to provide financial services
organisations with full access to the each company’s latest products
and services in support of Etude and SlaterLabs recently announced
Etude-Virtuoso™ Internet-based banking software offering.
“These results will further encourage the largest banks in the world
to seriously evaluate their current mainframe based strategies
against the robust, secure and scalable alternative offered by Etude
and our market leading technology and professional services
partners. The opportunity to drastically reduce annual core software
and infrastructure costs by many millions of dollars is
unprecedented in the industry” says John Slater, Chairman and CEO,
SlaterLabs. “We are extremely pleased at the new high performance
standards being set by Etude, as this initial benchmarking clearly
demonstrates just how much technology has advanced over the past
decade when properly applied to mission critical transaction
processing systems using homogenously designed architectures and
technologies. SlaterLabs in-depth banking knowledge, combined with
the respective leadership of HP, Microsoft and EDS, allows us to
introduce market changing alternatives for our customers across the
entire spectrum of the financial services industry.”
Commenting on the benchmark testing, Szilard Szurdok, HP’s Director
of Technology Solutions Group, Financial Services Industry EMEA said
“HP’s agile and adaptive enterprise infrastructure provides a
perfect vehicle to deliver Etude to banks worldwide, and we are
looking forward to continue to work closely with SlaterLabs to
deliver innovative technology and software solutions to the
financial services industry. We believe this powerful combination
will allow our joint customers to improve their business agility
while at the same time dramatically reduce their technology and
application software development and maintenance costs. We are very
excited to be playing a lead role in delivering these major benefits
to the global banking community.”