Move to Microsoft SQL Server Reduces Cost, Boosts Performance in Financial Services

For a quarter of a century, CheckFree has been making complex financial transactions easier for businesses and consumers. Part of the company’s customer support operations is an application that logs customer interactions (totalling 4 terabytes) with its various online products. CheckFree rewrote an application for deployment as a .NET-connected solution on Microsoft® SQL Server™ running on the Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 operating system. The system provides eight times faster performance than the project targeted, and provides a clear path for additional scale to meet future needs. The development team looks forward to upgrading to SQL Server 2005 to take advantage of new features including Service Broker, Table Partitioning, Database Mirroring, and the SQL CLR.