Case Study: National Agricultural Cooperative Federation

(NACF) - Financial Accounting Information System

CASE STUDY FOR FINANCIALS

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CASE STUDY FOR FINANCIALS

￭ Overview￭ Problems￭ Solutions￭ Results￭ Technical Details

+ Overview

AltibaseAltibase is provider of In-Memory data solutions for real-time access, analysis and distribution of high volumes of data in mission-critical environments.

National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NACF)

NACF, with 1172 branches, is the largest and only national, agricultural cooperative in Korea. NACF’s Cooperative Banking Unit offers diverse financial services such as deposits, loans, credit cards, insurance, FOREX, and securities.

SummaryAltibase enabled NACF to provide customers with uninterrupted, 24/7 service while increasing performance speeds by 500%.

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+ ProblemsNACF was spending inordinate amounts of excess capital supporting overtime employees, extended office hours and resulting inefficiencies.

The vast majority of NACF’s branches were forced to prolong operating hours on a regular basis. The culprit was performance issues with its Financial Accounting Information System1.

NACF’s Account Processing System could not effectively manage loading and processing large volumes of data feeds from its 20 application servers. Representative data feeds included tasks such as transaction processing, branch teller support and error management.

The underperformance wasted valuable resources in the form of needless overtime pay, while sparking an uncontrollable deterioration of company morale and overall productivity.

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1) Financial Accounting Information System consists of Accounting Processing System and Accounting Management System

+ SolutionIn 2006, the NACF deployed ALTIBASE HDB in-memory DBMS to buttress its Account Processing System. Realizing that the root cause of its performance failures stemmed from the pervasive limitations of its traditional on-disk DBMS, the NACF made the switch to ALTIBASE HDB in-memory DBMS. ALTIBASE HDB resolved NACF’s large volume data management deficiencies, shortening office hours, increasing worker productivity and decreasing spend.

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+ Results NACF has reduced the operating hours of its 1172 branches,

respectively, by an average of over 1 hour per day.

NACF’s Account Processing System has increased the performance of loading and processing data feeds from its 20 application servers by 500%.

NACF’s Account Processing System seamlessly handles 3000 transactions per second and over 50 million transactions per day.

NACF provides customers with uninterrupted, 24/7 service leveraging Altibase’s High Availability feature that comes out of the box and deploys without issue.

NACF no longer wastes capital on office overhead, overtime pay and has repositioned itself for high productivity igniting further growth.

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+ Technical Details NACF achieved outstanding results with its Account Processing System by

leveraging the key features of ALTIBASE HDB, specifically in the areas of high-performance and high-availability.

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With a conventional on-disk DBMS in the backend, NACF’s Account Processing System could not effectively manage loading and processing large volumes of data feeds from 20 application servers which provided different categories of services. The legacy system only allowed data processing to execute in batch/day processing windows. The throughput requirements of the application environment went far beyond the on-disk DBMS’s intrinsic capacity. As the number of concurrent sessions and the volume of data increased drastically, the performance and the stability of the on-disk DBMS suffered greatly.

Planned and unplanned system outages became the norm, negatively impacting NACF’s business.

NACF deployed ALTIBASE HDB in the in-memory only DBMS mode to replace the old, underperforming on-disk DBMS. After NACF made the switch to ALTIBASE HDB, the system started processing of data from the application servers in real-time. The system handled more than 4,000 concurrent sessions with ease. The system’s throughput was also dramatically improved, delivering a minimum of 10 million retrievals per system per day.

NACF’s Account Processing System has increased the overall performance of loading and processing data feeds from its 20 application servers by 500%.

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Performance

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Using the out of the box replication feature, NACF implemented ALTIBASE HDB based on a 2-node, Active-Active HA architecture. In this architecture, both ALTIBASE HDB nodes processed transactions concurrently, with each node capable of taking over in the case of a failure of the other node, providing non-stop service with improved reliability and fault-tolerance.

This architecture ensured that NACF’s mission-critical data was never compromised by unplanned downtime - due to a system crash, malfunction or planned downtime - due to patches or upgrades to its DBMS.

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High-Availability (HA)

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