Financial services

Scalability milestone for Fiserv

7 May 2008

Fiserv CBS Worldwide has exceeded its performance goal of 10,000 concurrent users for the Aperio customer interaction management solution.

The testing was carried out jointly by Fiserv, Microsoft and Portrait Software, and involved multiple complex business processes emulating deployment for major institutions. The results prove that Aperio, which was created using the Microsoft Application Platform including SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) database software, can handle the demands of tier one, two and three banks with diverse deployment requirements.

“We’ve always been impressed by the scalability of SQL Server,” said David Saunders, technical architect at Portrait Software, whose framework underlies Aperio. “We’ve consistently found that SQL Server provides a solid, reliable platform that scales up very well. It is an excellent environment in which to work.”

“The results of this project demonstrate that systems based on Microsoft technology are scalable, reliable and secure enough to handle large volumes of data at the heart of a bank’s transaction processing environment, and that they serve mission-critical needs of our customers in the financial services industry,” said Kim Saunders, senior director of SQL Server marketing at Microsoft.