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Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

Running CSC’s Integral insurance suite on SQL Server and Windows Server provides unmatched performance and scalability

Posted 3 months ago

by ISV Apps on SQL
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Microsoft and CSC have formed an alliance to support CSC’s Integral insurance suite on Microsoft software. Because Integral interoperates seamlessly with Windows Server and SQL Server, insurance carriers who deploy the joint CSC/Microsoft solution...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

Benchmark Testing Results: CSC’s Integral P&C Running on SQL Server

Posted 11 months ago

by ISV Apps on SQL
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CSC’s Integral is a comprehensive insurance administration suite that provides end-to-end policy and group management, product configuration, and business-analytics capabilities. In February and March of 2012, CSC and Microsoft conducted performance...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

CSC’s Integral Running on SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Scales to 1,000 Concurrent Users with Excellent Performance

Posted 11 months ago

by ISV Apps on SQL
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CSC’s Integral is a comprehensive administration suite for life insurance and annuities/pensions, property and casualty (P&C), general insurance, and group insurance. In February and March 2012, CSC and Microsoft conducted performance and scalability...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

Benchmark testing confirms the scalability, performance, and value of the Microsoft Application Platform for CSC’s POINT IN

Posted over 1 year ago

by Tali Smith
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CSC’s POINT IN policy administration system is widely known in the insurance industry as the leading end-to-end property and casualty (P&C) administration application suite. It has the largest active customer community in North America, with...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

Testing Confirms the Scalability, Performance, and Value of Microsoft SQL Server for CSC’s POINT IN

Posted over 2 years ago

by ISV Apps on SQL
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CSC’s POINT IN policy administration system is widely known in the insurance industry as the leading end-to-end property and casualty (P&C) administration software. It has the largest active customer community, with more than 100 carriers using...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

Migration: The value gained moving from Oracle to SQL Server 2008R2

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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[DB2 Migration Value] [ Sybase Migration Value ] In the early 1980's I was an Oracle Developer on mainframes and on MS-DOS using Oracle 5.1 on MS-DOS (distributed on some 20+ diskettes -- I still have them). It was an interesting time because PC products...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

Fundamentals: Improving Insert and Update Performance by Dropping Unused Indexes

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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[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...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

Fundamentals: Running Database Engine Tuning Advisor and Selecting Indexes

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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[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...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

CSC Point In: Insurance Administration Software is now on SQL Server

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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POINT IN supports end-to-end processing for all lines of insurance coverage, the company is providing more choice to clients by offering a new option that runs on the Microsoft Windows platform with a SQL Server database, allowing reduced total cost of...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

Fundamentals: Creating a Workload by Using a Trace Log

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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[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...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

Best Practices Analyzer for ISV SQL Servers to protect your company’s property

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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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...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

Migrating from Oracle to SQL Server

Posted over 2 years ago

by Ken Lassesen
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[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...
Enterprise Applications on Microsoft SQL Server

Right sizing ISV installations for the best bang for the buck!

Posted over 2 years ago

by SQL Server ISV
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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...