The Actimize Fraud Prevention platform was proved to have linear scalability, high-availability and failover capabilities with an average response time of 10ms with an IBM Power Systems server connected to IBM TotalStorage DS8300. Actimize outperformed the success criteria specified by the requesting financial institution.

"As our solutions are typically mission-critical for our clients, they have to be built on top of a highly flexible, scalable and reliable technology platform," says Boaz Peer, chief technology officer at Actimize. "It is satisfying to see that, whether tested in the lab or deployed at client site, our financial crime platform outperforms expectations."

The IBM PSSC team has years of experience producing objective industry benchmarks, partnering with clients to meet their IT infrastructure and business goals. The benchmark was requested by a very large global financial institution to test Actimize's financial crime platform and solution performance against a variety of key metrics. The client's key objectives were to test and validate response time performance, hardware scalability, high-availability and failover and recovery capabilities.

The Actimize system exceeded expectations. Benchmark parameters and results included:
• 500TPS achieved over two active sites against a benchmark requirement of two sites located 1500 miles apart
• 10ms average response time against a benchmark requirement of a maximum response time <500ms
• Demonstrated linear scalability supporting performance above 500TPS
• Low utilization of hardware (load balanced between two active sites, 50% on each)
• ~10mn recovery time, after complete failure of production site
• ~5mn recovery time, after database replication failure between two sites

The IBM PSSC was able to fulfill the testing criteria for the client quickly and efficiently, providing detailed results that were ultimatelately used by the financial institution to select Actimize as its enterprise fraud prevention solution provider.