Global e-finance solutions and services provider S1 Corporation says tests by S1, Hewlett-Packard and Informix Software show that its S1 Consumer Banking application will scale to support up to 43 million customers.
The performance tests were conducted at the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Capacity Planning Centre in Cupertino, California, and used two different configurations of the S1 application.
The most recent series of performance tests was conducted with release 5.1 of the S1 Consumer Banking application operating on the latest HP 9000 Enterprise Servers, the N and L Classes, and HP's Enterprise Storage Systems, the XP256 model, using Informix Dynamic Server.2000 and Netscape iPlanet Webserver.
"As demand for e-finance capabilities and user populations continues to rise, financial service providers must address the operability of core Internet-based applications," the Nasdaq-listed company says.
"Web infrastructures must be able to satisfy thousands of concurrent users, process millions of transactions and deliver information, products and services in ever-shortening response times.
"The scalability and performance of e-finance applications are critical to a financial service provider's ability to meet tomorrow's consumer demands."
It says the tests focused on an implementation configured to retrieve a user's transactional information by making real-time calls to the financial institution's back-end system.
"The performance tests empirically demonstrated the ability to scale the S1 Consumer Banking application to support 3 million customers with an average response time of 1.01 seconds.
"Further, the results from the tests executed at incremental user volumes up to 3 million customers concluded that the application will scale linearly to support more than 43 million customers, equating to more than 31 500 concurrent users."
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