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Mercuryfx performance testing successful on IBM Power System Servers.

Credence Analytics (India), is a specialist treasury and risk solutions company with strong domain and technology skills in the banking and financial services arena. Credence Analytics has been designing, developing and delivering these solutions since 1993 with a dedicated team of domain specialists. Credence Analytics manages the entire development, deployment and support processes of its software application products. Credence software product suite includes integrated treasury software for banks , online branch Dealing System - Mercuryfx, investment management software for insurance and fund management companies , treasury management software for NBFCs, wealth management software and ALM software for banks and financial institutions.

Mercuryfx is a browser-based online forex trading platform built on an open technology platform with rich functionalities primarily catering to corporate and retail foreign exchange dealing with requirements of banks and money changers. The objective of Mercuryfx is to act as a Unified Fx Reporting system which acts as a single middle ware between treasury and trade finance. This enables the client organizations to improve efficiency by reducing reconciliation efforts, reduce operational risk by squaring positions, scale up volumes and increase profitability of customer forex business with proper accountability and risk monitoring. Mercuryfx supports products including outright foreign exchange, forwards, inward/outward remittances, foreign exchange Loans and deposits, currency notes, store value cards.

Credence collaborated with IBM® Innovation Center for performance testing of Mercuryfx Solution. The environment was setup for 5,000(ETPH) and 10,000 (ETPH) load for various transaction loads related to Forex and Merchant Bills. The applications was on IBM P520 Power System servers with native operating system AIX ® 6.1 along with Web Sphere 6.1 Network Deployment & Oracle 10g on IBM P550 Power System servers. The key objective of the performance testing was to demonstrate and measure the ability of the solution to seamlessly scale up to handle the ever growing transaction volumes efficiently and cost effectively. This exercise has benefited in terms of product's performance achievement and hardware sizing which can be shared with customers. This has helped the product in becoming a conspicuous selling tool in the market.

According to Mr.M.R.Rajesh, Associate Director says "We have invested in the performance testing exercise to reinforce our value proposition to offer products with strong depth in functionalities with robust and scalable technology to enable our clients grow their operations aggressively without any inhibitions."

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Credence Analytics Pvt Ltd: www.credenceanalytics.com
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