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Thomson ONE Analytics Achieves Significant Performance Boost with Unisys ES7000 Servers and Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Processor MP

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Thomson Financial, a leading provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community, has achieved a significant performance boost with its Thomson ONE Analytics application running on Unisys ES7000 servers and the Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Processor MP. The application, which provides real-time, integrated analytical workflow solutions for institutional investors, has experienced a 200 percent improvement in hardware performance, with a 100 percent uptime, while supporting 55,000 users.

Key Takeaways:

  • Thomson ONE Analytics, a real-time, integrated analytical workflow solution for institutional investors, achieved a 200 percent improvement in hardware performance with Unisys ES7000 servers and the Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Processor MP.
  • The application supports 55,000 users, a 10,000 percent increase from its initial 500 users, with a 100 percent uptime.
  • The migration of customers from First Call Web to Thomson ONE Analytics was one of the largest migration projects in the financial industry, involving the transformation of the application from static data to integrated workflow.
  • The Thomson ONE Analytics application runs on two 16-processor ES7000 servers, featuring the latest Intel Xeon processor MP and Microsoft Windows 2000 Data Center Server.
  • The application stores mission-critical databases with six months of qualitative research data, providing investors with fast access to the data.
  • Unisys and Intel were engaged by Thomson Financial to help design a new platform for the application, resulting in a platform that delivers significantly improved performance, higher availability, and scalability.

Statistics:

  • 200 percent improvement in hardware performance
  • 100 percent uptime
  • 10,000 percent increase in users (from 500 to 55,000)
  • 400 percent faster speed overall
  • Support for historical financial data of over five years

Sources:

  • Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com)
  • Unisys Corporation (www.unisys.com)
  • Intel Corporation (www.intel.com)

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