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The Taiwanese banking sector is intensely competitive and fragmented, making it very challenging for banks to generate attractive margins by exercising price differentiation and charging appropriate risk premiums in the lending business. In response, many banks in Taiwan have been actively seeking alternative...

SQL Server provides an ideal database platform for TEMENOS T24. By choosing the Microsoft platform, T24 customers experience faster funds transfers, higher security-trade volumes, and quicker close-of-business processes. This white paper provides best practices for configuring and running T24 on SQL...

As part of their strategic alliance, Microsoft and Temenos worked together to define a recommended deployment architecture that provides high availability and disaster recovery (HADR) for the TEMENOS T24 core banking solution running on the Microsoft Application Platform and using Microsoft technologies...

Temenos is the market-leading provider of integrated core banking systems, with more than 1,500 customers and 700 implementations in more than 125 countries. Temenos works closely with Microsoft to provide financial institutions with scalable, high-performing, and affordable banking solutions. ...

Bank of China International Limited (BOCIL) runs private banking operations in Hong Kong, targeting affluent investors with more than 1 million US dollars of assets. Their clients demand performance, availability and smooth operations. SQL Server is an essential part of providing this experience, delivering...

Danske Bank is Denmark's largest bank and a leading bank in Northern Europe (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, England, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Germany, Luxembourg and Poland). A key aspect of this selection was reduced operational costs realized with SQL Server. ‘’We are taking significant...

Mobile payments are a rapidly growing market that require high availability. Luup , a leader in this industry, emphasizes innovation to save costs and to create revenue for its customers. Luup is active in developing countries where there is high mobile phone penetration and largely unbanked populations...

Servus Credit Union joins a growing number of major Canadian Credit Unions running T24 on SQL Server. Other credit unions include Vancity and North Shore credit unions. Servus provides a complete line of banking services, including registered accounts, financing, investments, insurance, commercial banking...

[DB2 Migration Value] [ Oracle Migration Value ] In the early 1990's I was a consultant to Microsoft when the first alphas of SQL Server were tested as a replacement for Sybase on internal production systems. Those days were sweet because we were working directly with the SQL Server product developers...

Bank Syariah Mandiri has selected T24 on SQL Server to provide core banking for their customers. This choice allows them to address the rapid growth of sharia banking in Indonesia while reducing costs and limiting risks. Sharia banking prohibits interest payments and operates on a different financial...

Bank Sinopac has 131 domestic branches and operations in the US, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Macao, Bank SinoPac serves 4 million retail and corporate customers worldwide. Management realized that its 18 year old COBOL based core banking system was losing its ability to remain competitive in the market. Work...

[Oracle Migration Value] [Sybase Migration Value] Two decades ago, I made my living as a DB2 developer working for GTENW (now Verizon). In this year's spring-cleaning, I came across my old DB2 certificates; perhaps it is time to do a spring-cleaning of perceptions about DB2 and SQL Server. As a developer...

[Prior Post in Series] [Next Post in Series] In my prior posts, I looked at adding indexes with Database Engine Tuning Advisor. In this post, I will look at the other side of the coin and delete indexes that are unused or that cost more resources than they save. Indexes primary use is to find records...

[Prior Post in Series] [Next Post in Series] In my last post Fundamentals: Creating a Workload by Using a Trace Log , I illustrated how to create a workload. In this post, I will look at the complimentary step, using the log as input to the Database Engine Tuning Advisor to identify performance...

[Next Post in Series] This is the kick-off post of a regular Friday series of posts, " Basic Skills for SQL Server ISV Administrators ". I have found that ISV Administrators are often Professional Engineers (P.E.) -- rich in business knowledge and light in Information Technology expertise. In this...

The intellectual property(IP) or other valuable information may be stored on SQL Server in your ISV product. Its value is more than credit card records (credit cards can be cancelled if lost, IP can’t). It may be the equivalent of a state secret for your firm. Microsoft provides two versions of...

[Next Post in Series: Kronos Migration] My first experience with data migration dates from the 1970’s when a firm was moving from a Honeywell Mainframe (64KB of memory, no DASD -- just tape drives) to an IBM 4331 (2 MB of memory and DASD). In those days, computer manufacturers often had different...

Author: This article is written by our contributing author Ken Lassesen. His bio can be found here . Recently I have seen two configurations that caused me to shake my head in disbelief. In reality, the problem is the classic one of people working off valid but stale past knowledge. Two...

As a Vancouver Canada born and educated boy, I was delighted to hear that it’s North Shore Credit Union (NSCU) went with Temenos T24 using SQL Server 2008. This decision is typical of Canadian financial institutions passion for efficiency and making sound decisions. The World Economic Form “ranked...

The Temenos T24 application becomes the first core banking system to go into production with customers on Azure. " The combination of T24 and the Windows Azure platform, including SQL Azure, allows banks to remove the high data centre costs associated with running a multi-application environment by...

You should perform system monitoring during development of your system and periodically during production. Before “going live,” look for bottlenecks and gauge your ability to scale to your expected long-term workload. Once in production, you should create a performance baseline and monitor...

TEMENOS T24 (T24) is a complete banking solution designed to meet the challenges faced by financial institutions in today’s competitive market. T24 provides a single, real-time view of clients across the entire enterprise, making it possible for banks to maximize returns and keep costs down. ...

[Prior Post in Series] The Temenos T24 application can make use of many of the high availability features that come with SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Data Center editions. In part 1 of this series about high availability options for Temenos T24, we took a look at Failover Clustering. In part...

[Prior Post in Series] [Next Post in Series] The Temenos T24 application can make use of many of the high availability features that come with SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Data Center editions. In part 1 of this series about high availability options for Temenos T24, we took a look at Failover...

Lonnye Bower from our team and Nitasha Chopra from Intel will be at TechEd Berlin next week! If you are attending and are a SQL Server geek that wants to hear about how to scale SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 and exploit 64 cores of power you must attend this session. Lonnye and Nitasha...