Oracle FLEXCUBE on Oracle's SPARC T5 Servers Demonstrates Superior Performance for Banks

BOSTON, MA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 1, 2014) - SIBOS and ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle (NYSE: ORCL)

News Summary
A recent performance test of Oracle FLEXCUBE on Oracle's SPARC T5 servers with Oracle Solaris demonstrated that the banking solution can enable banks with between 1 and 3 million accounts to deploy Oracle FLEXCUBE at up to 2.3 times lower cost than an IBM POWER configuration.¹ Testing also demonstrated up to 4.5 times shorter deployment times when using the new Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle FLEXCUBE.²

Key News Facts

• The Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle FLEXCUBE offers a fully tested, tuned, and documented approach for deploying industry-leading Oracle FLEXCUBE solutions on Oracle's SPARC T5 servers with low cost, minimal risk, and rapid return on investment.
• The Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle FLEXCUBE demonstrated high performance and efficiency for customer-facing online processing and back-office, end-of-financial-period batch processing, taking 128 minutes to process 10 million accounts for end-of-month and 40 minutes to process accounts for end-of-day periods. Online transaction processing (OLTP) performance reached 923 transactions per second with 200 concurrent users, with 98^th-percentile response time of 343 milliseconds.
• The Oracle Optimized Solution delivers exceptional value for Oracle FLEXCUBE users, including:
  • Business continuity: Simplified architecture and reliability-focused design enables greater system availability.
  • Back-office productivity: High-performance architecture helps minimize daily and periodic batch financial processing times and can help virtually eliminate backlogs.
  • Better customer experience: Best practices and tuning maximizes branch office and ATM transactional capabilities while shortening financial transactions to provide rapid response to customers.
  • Lower operating costs: The Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle FLEXCUBE simplifies operations and management to increase IT efficiency and help reduce operating expenditures.
• The Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle FLEXCUBE comprises Oracle's SPARC T5 servers with Oracle Solaris, Oracle networking, and Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance.
• The performance test for the optimized solution was conducted with Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking Release 12 and Oracle Real Application Clusters 11g Release 2 running on a SPARC T5-2 server. The SPARC T5-2 server running Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking Release 12 achieved twice the throughput per processor compared to a SPARC T4-4 server.³

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