Octopus (2003 & 2005)

Core Business:

Management of an alternative payment method using a contact-less smart card for local transportation, retail and other micro-transactions.
Recorded up to 9 million daily transactions by the end of 2005.

Octopus 2003 - Customer Problem:

• All transactions ran on an old legacy system resulting in poor performance.
• With 8 million transactions needing to be cleared everyday, the client lacked an asynchronised solution to support different remote client applications to effectively manage a database with billions of records and heavy storage loads.

Octopus 2003 - IIS Solutions:

• Revamped company's proprietary applications to a J2EE portable framework.
• Installed a Veritas Volume Replicator on WebLogic Server and Oracle to help replication between the production and DR sites.
• Introduced Veritas Netback up with a storage checkpoint feature.
• Tuned the Oracle database with Veritas DBE.
• Implemented the entire Infrastructure setup and integration.

Octopus 2003 - Technology Used:

• Weblogic application server clustering.
• Sun Microsystems, Veritas (Full Suite), Oracle.

Octopus 2005 - Customer Problem:

• Transactions growth exceeded expectations, approaching more than 9 million per day.
• Prohibitively high costs for 3rd party software to enhance database performance.

Octopus 2005 - Customer Benefits:

• Provided proof-of-concept (POC) in an HPUX platform.
• Installed HP Integrity Servers with an EVA Storage system.
• Implemented Oracle 10g and tuned the database to meet transaction requirements.
• Transaction performance rose without the use of 3rd party software.
• HPUX Integrity Server achieved overwhelmingly positive results against the Unix Server in terms of benchmarking.