Scaling Your Enterprise - High Performance and Scalability by Design

corporate product customer case whitepaper Whitepaper Scaling Your Enterprise High Performance and Scalability by Design Highlights Cordys provides leading organizations worldwide with a unique Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) that is specifically architected for flexibility and superior Designed to Scale… To Your Essential Business Needs scalability and supports business growth through the automation and optimization of core business processes. Designed to Scale… To Your Future Volume Requirements Designed to Scale… To Your Future Application Needs Designed to Scale… To Your Information Management Needs Introduction In order to survive in today’s global business environment, enterprises must constantly improve operational efficiency while continually expanding into new geographic or vertical markets. Companies that are not able to manage and reduce overheads by improving the efficiency of business operations are likely to be priced out of the market by competitors. Meanwhile, companies that do not plan for market expansion are likely to lose ground to competitors and may eventually disappear completely from the market place. For today’s enterprise, business success depends on being able to simultaneously deal with structural expansion and adaptation to unexpected changes in demand. IT systems play a central role in the quest to achieve the ultimate level of business responsiveness. In order for an organization to scale with demand and to rapidly adapt to meet the changing needs of the business, IT must be able to support short term change and long term growth in a cost-effective manner. Cordys provides leading organizations worldwide with a unique Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) that is specifically architected for flexibility and superior scalability and supports business growth through the automation and optimization of core business processes. Scaling Your Enterprise 2 Designed to Scale...To Your Essential Business Needs ‘Cordys BPMS supports the To achieve higher levels of business efficiency and effectiveness, enterprises throughout the world use Cordys to automate core business processes. They rely automation of on Cordys because the constant availability of these business processes is essential core business to the reputation and success of the organization. processes that have high scalability Unexpected peaks in demand must never result in a service disruption, and requirements.’ expansion into new geographic markets or verticals must never be stymied by the inability of IT to support business development. Cordys delivers a BPMS that has a strong track record in supporting the automation of core business processes in customer environments that have high scalability requirements. Key to Cordys’ near linear-scalability is the Cordys Business process flow engine, Test Summary responsible for the actual execution of the activities within a business process. In The business process conjunction with key customers, Cordys recently undertook a series of tests aimed for this series of tests at further substantiating the near-linear scalability of Cordys’ process flow engine. was derived from one of The results prove that Cordys is able to offer companies a highly scalable BPMS that Cordys’ Financial Services customers, and represents is able to support rapidly growing businesses at an acceptable cost. a simplified model of an ATM cash withdrawal transaction. In the test, a total of 500,000 short lived processes in batches of 10,000 are executed, each consisting of several activities and including six database interactions (two reads, one insert, and three updates). The test was undertaken five times, with each test increasing the number Figure 1. of servers involved, from ATM Cash Withdrawal Process one in the first test to a cluster of five servers in the fifth test. Figure 2 clearly shows that Cordys is able to scale in a near-linear way by executing process flows in parallel and utilizing a number of servers (dual CPU 3.4Ghz) to incrementally form a more powerful cluster. Figure 1 also shows the number of flows that Cordys was able Figure 2. to execute per second, The Cordys Business Process Engine based on a CPU load of Scales in a Near-Linear Way. 85%. Scaling Your Enterprise 3 Designed to Scale...To Your Future Volume Requirements ‘Cordys is uniquely placed to deliver Once business processes have been designed in Cordys, they are deployed on the superior scalability Cordys SOA Grid, which consists of a pool of Cordys servers that together deliver because of it’s Enterprise Stability and Near-Linear Scalability. Cordys is uniquely placed to deliver superior superior scalability because of two central architectural principles: architecture.’ Stateful Objects and Stateless Connections The use of Stateful Objects and Stateless Connections throughout the Cordys SOA Grid means that connections between any two parts of the Grid are not managed by a central hub or connection management module. This approach removes the need for connection state replication between two or more hubs in a cluster, which is the main barrier to achieving near-linear scalability.