Yin and yang, life and death, Clark Kent and Superman. Some concepts are so intertwined that it’s impossible to imagine one without the other. Transaction processing (TP) and relational databases ...

Event-driven architectures offer a strategic path to real-time execution, resilience and operational transparency across ...

This is the ninth in an ongoing series on building a Web site for your small business. Part 1 looks at essential elements of a business Web site. Part 2 offers basic site design guidelines. Part 3 ...

Integrating payment solutions has become essential for every business (big or small) in today’s dynamic digital-based economy. In fact, merchant payment processing is a piece of this puzzle that gives ...

Online transaction processing systems are purpose-built to handle large numbers of transactions by large numbers of concurrent users, while guaranteeing the integrity of the data. Online transaction ...

Users of Transaction Processing Facility (TPF), IBM’s mainframe operating system, seem to have both pride in the OS and an inferiority complex, often referring to it as “IBM’s unknown operating system ...