Application of IBM DB2 Common database in China UnionPay case

In the face of improving the ability of bank card information transfer processing and building the international famous bank card brand, China UnionPay needs to transform the old database platform, and improve the data processing ability, usability and disaster-tolerance performance of database platform comprehensively.

* Why do you choose IBM?

IBM DB2 is a well-known brand of commercial databases and has extensive experience in the field of financial database applications. And IBM can provide comprehensive technical support for the application of enterprise-level database.

* Programme

IBM DB2 UDB 8.1

* Return

Overall improvement of business processing capability

-Performance: Peak 3000TPS, single transaction processing time <1 seconds;

-Trading Volume: Peak 52 million/day, average 24 million strokes/day;

-Usability: 7*24*365;99.99%

Customer satisfaction Promotion: To create a good faith, efficient and secure trading platform

There is no doubt that the bank card is profoundly changing people's lives, this is China UnionPay since its inception in 2002, in a short period of three years, rapid growth for the reception network all over the country, card issuers rapid growth, international acceptance of the outstanding results of National Bank card brand enterprises.

Not only that, China UnionPay is also deeply aware that the future ambitious goals will be the company's business scope, system capabilities and other aspects of the challenge. On the one hand, e-commerce will penetrate into all areas of people's life, electronic payment as the main form of payment of electronic commerce will bring more opportunities for bank card business; On the other hand, China's accession to the WTO, the further opening of the bank card industry to international capital in 2006 will bring great challenges to the local

In the face of opportunities and challenges, China UnionPay is working to improve the processing capacity of bank card information transfer, in order to provide more High-quality professional bank card services to customers including commercial banks, large merchants, cardholders and public utilities, and then to build international famous brand of bank card.

Build international brand, infrastructure

To create an international brand, China UnionPay faces challenges in infrastructure construction.

First of all, the rapid expansion of business will inevitably lead to explosive growth of business data volume, while UnionPay card users in the transaction security, stability and convenience also put forward higher requirements, which requires a substantial increase in the core business data platform data processing capabilities.

Second, the provision of Cross-border, Cross-regional bank card transactions need a centralized exchange, unified liquidation of the National Processing Center, these are based on the regional data large concentration, it is necessary to change the previous data distribution, heterogeneous situation.

Finally, to build the internationally renowned bank card brand, China UnionPay faces the positive competition of the international Card organization giants, and the business ability and service level is one of the key factors deciding the outcome.

The performance of core business data platform plays an important role in improving business capability and service level for the bank card organization which relies on information system to carry out business and regards data resources as life.

Choice of standards: strength and Brand