Pay up: Cass Information Systems helps FORTUNE 500 companies with their bills

Bill-paying is nobody’s idea of a good time—unless, of course, you’re Cass Information Systems, in which case it’s what you like (and do) best. Cass is a leading provider of payment and information solutions to FORTUNE 500 companies, especially in the areas of freight, utilities, and telecommunications.

Wanting to leverage the latest HP Integrity NonStop technology to meet changing business demands for payment and information solutions, the company recently evolved its business technology environment to a six-processor Integrity NonStop NS1000 server with 28 mirrored drives, plus a second, identical server for disaster recovery. The NonStop Virtual Tape Server is used for backup.

As a result, Cass has achieved a threefold increase in throughput with continuous availability and has enhanced its ability to provide specialized payables processing and critical management reporting. The low-risk implementation made changes possible without affecting operations, and positions the company to handle increasing transaction volume. Because Cass experiences smooth operations with no performance bottlenecks, it is able to focus on its core competency rather than system maintenance.

“We have found that NonStop technology gives us the most fault tolerance of any platform. Our system is literally never down, and the uptime translates to revenue,” says Jim Crowley, manager of Internal Programming at Cass Information Systems.

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This news is published on NonStop Computing websites. April 2008.