| GLOBALCOLLECT FINDS RECIPE FOR SUCCESS IN INGRES AND HVR |
International payment services provider GlobalCollect is one of those few companies for which the phrase mission critical really does have currency. Dependable IT systems that perform faultlessly 24x7 are not just important to its business, they're absolutely critical. Just ask the costumers and vendors who last year depended on GlobalCollect to make more than 40 million payments and conduct in excess of 80 million transactions collectively worth over $ 1.5 billion.
Leader in Electronic Payment Processing
A solid record of reliability and succes has helped GlobalCollect archieve year-on-year growth and become a leader in electronic payment processing. Its clients include big names like KLM, Skype, Vodafone, Nike, FT, Reuters, Sony and Apple iTunes. It is by using GlobalCollect's services that these companies can offer their telephone, Internet and mail order customers a slick and efficient way of making customer-not-present purchases of goods ranging from tunes and tickets through to software and computers.
Best of Breed SuppliersGiven the emphasis on systems availability, it's not surprising that when GlobalCollect itself goes shopping for IT, it does so with very serious intent indeed. The list reads like a roll call of the industry's best of breed suppliers: Computers - Sun, HP.Networks - Cisco, Nortel. Operating systems: Unix, Linux, Windows. And forming the all-important back office is the Busniess Open Source database Ingres along with the companion database replication tool High Volume Replicator (HVR) from Dutch software company PSB.
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