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Many businesses are currently running all, or a portion, of their transaction processing environments on HP NonStop platforms. In the past, companies have had limited options for transaction messaging facilities that are fault resilient, high performance, scalable, and cost-effective.

To introduce businesses to a new comprehensive, integrated transaction messaging facility that addresses the limitations of messaging infrastructure options on networks incorporating NonStop, BHMI has created a short video that introduces Concourse - Transaction Messaging System. According to Lynne Baldwin, President of BHMI, "BHMI created this video to give companies a 10,000 foot view of what Concourse - TMS can do for their existing online transaction processing environments and the flexibility it will afford their organizations in the future."

Concourse - TMS is a powerful message-oriented middleware solution designed to route transaction data among application processes distributed over multiple disparate platforms across a wide geographical area.

Concourse - TMS helps companies leverage their current software and technology by preserving or even enhancing their HP NonStop hardware investments. For example, TMS networks can coexist with NET24-XPNET networks executing on the same NonStop platforms. In fact, TMS facilitates the creation of functional gateways that can exchange message data between TMS and XPNET networks, and TMS interface libraries can be used to gradually replace XPNET interfaces without revamping application architectures.

Concourse - TMS also ensures that the skill sets of a company's in-house development staff will continue to be useful now and into the future. Network operations staff members will be able to manage their new TMS-based networking environment with minimal reorientation.

Bottom line, Concourse - TMS gives businesses control of their future. They no longer have to feel pressured to migrate to a new transaction processing environment that is going to be high-risk, time consuming, and expensive. They can also be assured that Concourse - TMS will support their increasing transaction volumes, provide more flexibility for future technologies, and reduce long- term support costs. And they can expand their networking reach across NonStop, Windows, Linux, and UNIX platforms while retaining the same control features and functions that they are used to.