BoE Group Treasury, a division of BoE Bank, has completed the installation of the Sybase Replication Server to provide disaster recovery facilities for its financial data.
This expands on the company's already substantial investment in Sybase database software. BoE Group Treasury implemented the Sybase Adaptive Server in 1997 to serve as the relational database management system (RDBMS) for its mission-critical Treasury and Private Bank system.
Dan Zulu, chief information officer of BoE Merchant Bank, says: "The system that drives the Treasury and Private Banking operations is one of the biggest in use at BoE.
"We needed a robust database, capable of delivering high throughput with large volumes of data, to underpin this system. Such a database needed to support an environment that demands 24 hour a day uptime, 365 days a year. Scalability was another important issue: the system started out with 10 users three years ago, and has grown to cater for more than 100 users."
One of the major reasons the financial services organisation opted for the product was that it was endorsed as one of the databases of choice for the OPICS applications, supplied by financial services application specialist Midas-Kapiti International.
BoE subsequently implemented the Replication Server to provide disaster recovery facilities for its systems, in line with the regulations set out by the South African Reserve Bank. This product allows BoE Group Treasury & Private Bank users to perform online transaction processing on local applications at the Durban, Cape Town, Paarl and Johannesburg offices, while data is replicated between Durban and Johannesburg over the BoE WAN in real-time. This will guarantee the integrity of BoE Group Treasury's financial information and ensure that the company will suffer minimum downtime in the event of a disaster.
Zulu says the Sybase database stores in excess of 360 tables, around half of which are updated online in real time over the BoE WAN. He points out that more than 3000 records are added, changed and updated on each of the online tables a day.
The Sybase Adaptive Server features a multi-threaded architecture, internal parallelism, and query optimisation which ensures that the database performs at a high level without the need to fine-tune it using third-party tools, says Zulu.
Zulu says he has used Sybase software throughout his 12-year career as an IT professional, and has always been impressed by the level of support, training and service offered by Sybase, locally and internationally.
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