Financial Services
Nature of Project
Sun Solaris To IBM AIX
This publicly traded financial services company enables consumers and businesses to safely and securely pay anyone, anywhere, anytime. As the leader in electronic commerce and payment services, they serve nearly 2.8 million merchant locations, 1,400 card issuers and millions of consumers, making it easier, faster and more secure for people and businesses to buy goods and services using virtually any form of payment.
Like most in the industry, this company is moving its traditional offline business into the e-business world. Part of this strategy is the creation an internet focused subsidiary designed to identify, develop, commercialize and operate emerging payment technologies. The company provides credit, debit, stored-value and smart card issuing and merchant transaction processing services; Internet commerce solutions; Western Union money transfers and money orders; and check processing and verification services throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and the Middle East. Its money transfer agent network includes approximately 120,000 agent locations with operations in more than 185 countries and territories.
Like many companies today, this client is looking to more effectively manage its Information Technology investment. Using the ALIGN methodology, a server consolidation and IT optimization process developed by IBM, Sector7 was able to develop a highly optimized server configuration that radically reduced the server "footprint" within the database server farm - from 43 Sun/Solaris database servers to four IBM pSeries servers - with attendant savings in annual purchase/lease, operations, and facilities/power/cooling costs.
In the process, Sector7 was able to significantly reduce Oracle software licensing expenses, owing to the comprehensive consolidation roadmap that Sector7 provided. The client indicated that they have already saved millions of dollars in Oracle licenses and expect to continue saving a substantial amount annually.
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