A major U.S. telecommunication (telco) provider offers provisioning and cellular infrastructure services to client companies, which provide their services through various applications to cell phone users...
An energy provider manages the work and materials flow for its nuclear power plants on various plant systems. Over the past few years, database querying and reporting, along with operational activity, grew across multiple, distributed systems...
A large U.S. telecommunication (telco) company provides various cellular services for its end users on HPE NonStop databases in two main call datacenters...
The Connection, by Paden R. Holenstein
Gravic published a use case article, Real-world Use Case: Avoid Data Corruption by Switching from Passive Replication to Automated Failover and Recovery in the January/February issue of The Connection...
A brokerage firm located in the Midwestern U.S. provides trading services and trading suggestions to customers through its brokers. It operates a home-grown application running on a redundant pair of HPE NonStop Servers...
A European cellular provider offers short message services (SMS) and unified message services (UMS) to deliver short text messages to cell phone customers, and to notify them of their voicemail or email messages...
A major bank provides credit and debit card processing for its merchant customers. Problem: The bank needed to ensure its merchant services were highly reliable, continuously available, and able to survive any system or...
A brokerage service bureau provides trading services to financial services firms on HPE NonStop systems. The financial services firms act as a "middleman," providing portfolio management with online access to the service bureau's NonStop trading application...
Due to recent merger activity, an online retailer maintains multiple data silos for its operational systems. The retailer offers a basic online shopping experience for items viewed or added to the shopping cart...
The largest U.S. processor of credit card transactions provides ATM and point-of-sale (POS) card management services for a variety of financial and commercial firms on HPE NonStop systems. The original configuration was vulnerable to failure and...
A major U.S. commodity provider delivers eight billion pounds of produce per year to customers from thousands of independent farms throughout the country. Major commodity producers are shifting towards precision agriculture...
A large and growing U.S. gas and convenience chain has over 3,500 stores, and is rapidly expanding. It uses Verifone (formerly AJB) point of sale and loyalty rewards applications on HPE NonStop systems using SQL/MX. Most of the application runs in the OSS space...
A major Internet Service Provider (ISP) is providing 24x7 email, Internet, instant messaging, and other services for millions of international customers. The ISP originally had a primary and disaster recovery farm of servers running Sybase database managers on Linux...
One of the largest U.S. processor of credit card transactions provides 24x7 card management services on HPE NonStop Systems with HPE Shadowbase software in an active/active (partitioned) business continuity architecture (data collisions are not possible)...
A U.S.-based financial services firm provides 24/7 global money transfer services, including money orders online and at thousands of retail locations with a home-grown application. It also provides money orders, business payments, and commercial services...
A casino manages all aspects of its business (gaming, hotel and hospitality operations, restaurants, etc.) on HPE NonStop systems. As part of a major upgrade, the casino developed several new applications, restructured its databases, and changed the schema of the Enscribe files and SQL tables...
A large Japanese e-commerce company provides 24x7 shopping on a high-volume Java* cell phone application hosted by a four-node Oracle RAC in a Linux cluster. Oracle was used for the authorization system of a new digital money service with 300 tables...
A paper manufacturer runs complex plant analysis and data queries on an HPE NonStop Server. The manufacturer needed to offload some of these applications from the HPE NonStop Server to a Windows SQL Server in order to distribute these analytical tools and incorporate them...
A European bank provides online account access to its customers for a banking application that runs on HPE NonStop systems. Fraud occurs and is difficult to identify and prosecute. The intent to commit a crime is not sufficient; the crime must actually be attempted for prosecution...
A European bank provides online account access to its customers for a banking application that runs on an IBM z/OS mainframe system. Fraud occurs and is difficult to identify and prosecute. Conspiracy is not sufficient grounds for prosecution in this country...
A European railroad provides transportation and digital ticketing services for a large portion of the continent. The business unit manually sets prices based on historical purchases. Fare pricing was unresponsive to consumer shifts in demand...
One of the largest U.S. processors of credit card transactions provides transaction authorization and settlement services for thousands of attached devices using a home-grown application on a pair of HPE NonStop systems. The processor recently upgraded its servers and implemented...
A large European steel tube manufacturer runs shop floor control applications on a pair of HPE NonStop systems. The manufacturer periodically runs reporting applications on remote Linux servers, and these reports remotely...
An insurance company provides claim processing services for its client companies, which then service their insurance policy holders (the end users). As claims are made on an HPE NonStop Server, they entered a claims processing application...
A brokerage service bureau provides outsource services (Figure 1) for security account balance and trade history to its banking customers’ end users on two NonStop systems connected via RDF. The service bureau needs to provide 24x7 access to the customers’ end users on a variety of...
A large international tour operator (the "operator") provides 24-hour services to its travel agents and Internet shoppers on HPE NonStop Servers. Utilizing the Internet, the tour operator’s business grew and look-to-book ratios increased several-hundred fold...
An island bank runs BASE24™ for 24x7 point-of-sale (POS) and ATM services on HPE NonStop Servers. The bank relied upon an untested active/passive business continuity solution for Disaster Recovery. The bank needed to...
A national healthcare agency processes all prescription insurance claims for the country’s healthcare market with a set of applications on HPE NonStop systems. The agency is facing exponential growth in the number of prescriptions due to an aging population along with prescription fraud and abuse...
A large telecommunications (telco) company based in Africa is servicing a growing user base, providing cell services, call detail record (CDR) billing, an online game show, and card recharging (talk minute reloading) on various applications with an existing replication engine on HPE NonStop systems...
A large European financial service provider offers trading and payment services for over 100 member banks on HPE NonStop systems. The provider’s development team follows agile procedures in releasing new core application functionality...
One of the world’s largest financial services firms provides investment services, transaction processing, and asset management on HPE NonStop systems. The institution is required to meet regulatory requirements, including validating...
An island bank uses a legacy replication product in an active/passive business continuity architecture for its BASE24™ application environment on HPE NonStop Servers. The bank purchased new platform hardware, new BASE24 software...
A large U.S. (California) credit union services its members on a BASE24™ application running on a pair of HPE NonStop systems. The NonStop systems are running in an active/passive business continuity architecture using an existing data replication engine...