RLPTechnologies Chooses Red Hat and JBoss Solutions
December 11 2006 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that RLPTechnologies has achieved
success using a combination of Red Hat and JBoss solutions. Running
a grid computing environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss
Enterprise Middleware Suite for a Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA) platform, RLPTechnologies has experienced an increase in
data-file processing performance by 70 percent, increased
scalability by 400 percent and enriched the timeliness, accuracy
and quality of the company's automotive data. RLPTechnologies is a
wholly owned research and development subsidiary of R.L. Polk &
Co., the premier provider of automotive information and marketing
solutions to the automotive world and its related industries.
RLPTechnologies is dedicated to deploying world class data-driven
technology products that support customers' needs to turn vast
amounts of data into business value with accuracy, speed and
security. It specializes in building industry-leading data
solutions that serve as the foundation for research, analysis and
action across multiple industries. �With our new SOA platform, we
literally have a factory that runs 24/7, processing data as soon as
it arrives, making it available for downstream systems
immediately,� said Joe LaFeir, Vice President Product Development
at RLP Technologies. �Data that previously sat on our loading dock
for eight hours is now automatically detected as it arrives and is
pushed straight through and distributed out to applications. The
timeliness of that data is extremely important for our customers,
so being able to reduce that time has been extremely beneficial.�
To date, tests show improvements of up to 70 percent, on average,
in data-file processing speed for RLPTechnologies. Grid computing
has allowed for 100 transactions per second, nearly four times the
parent company's 25 transactions per second, providing room for
future transactions, business growth and processing spikes. The
dependable quality of the chosen solutions has allowed the company
to shift focus from data management to product strategy and
application development, a focus that will support revenue growth.
Additional benefits include cost savings in terms of employees and
IT operating costs. A more cost-efficient and focused group,
previously the Data Operations team, is now operating at a 43
percent smaller size within the company. Also aiding cost
reduction, the move away from a mainframe-based system to a grid
computing model reduced the hardware costs by 65 percent,
ultimately resulting in millions of dollars saved. Improvements
made to the open systems environment are also leading to additional
savings of 30 percent per year. �RLPTechnologies was looking for a
solution with stability and performance with world-class services,�
said Paul Cormier, Executive Vice President of Engineering at Red
Hat. �They found an excellent solution with Red Hat solutions with
an integrated SOA platform based on open source. We are thrilled
that RLPTechnologies has experienced such performance gains and
savings with our solutions, this is just the beginning.� For more
information on Red Hat and JBoss solutions, please visit
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