Financial services
ATM and bankcard services boosted by Bankart
8 February 2008
GoldenGate Software, a provider of high availability and real-time data integration solutions, is to work with Bankart, Slovenia’s leading payment processing organisation. GoldenGate is helping Bankart to improve the availability of its ATM and bankcard payment processing services by running on two ‘Active/Active’ systems and providing real-time updates to both systems concurrently. Running on HP NonStop servers, the GoldenGate solution enables the two databases to remain consistent, so that in the event of an outage occurring with one of the systems, the other will immediately support all transactional payment processing until the original system comes back online, with no loss of data or payment processing.
In addition to the two Active/Active systems, the GoldenGate solutions also provide real-time data to Bankart’s system monitoring solutions. With this in place, Bankart’s IT team is automatically made aware of any technical issues – such as if any ATM machine in the network stops working, or payments are dropped by the ATM, or any of the other card payments at point of sale (POS) systems supported by Bankart – enabling it to rectify the problem quickly and help ensure that the reliability of the system is maintained effectively. The GoldenGate solutions also provide real-time transactional data feeds to Bankart’s proprietary back office reporting system, run on the Microsoft SQL Server database, meaning reports of payments can be sent to member banks on a daily basis.
“We had been using GoldenGate for some time to highlight operational issues in our ATM network and also to help our back office reporting,” said Gregor Pirc, IT manager at Bankart. “With its real-time data integration capabilities, it provided the functionality we needed to be able to execute effectively for our customers.”
“Our technology can support a number of business processes and functions, and provide high levels of system performance and reliability,” said Richard Dobber, managing director for EMEA at GoldenGate BV. “In sectors such as banking and finance, the availability of payment systems is critical not only to the bank, but also the businesses that are its clients and in turn to their customers.”