Bangalore: Infosys Technologies today (Sep 28, 2004) said that its Finacle Universal Banking Solution has achieved the highest scalability and transactions throughput per second (TPS) of 11,180 in online mode and 19,568 TPS for batch mode.

With this, Infosys has bettered its own previous record of 7357 TPS for online transactions and outperformed the industry's standards, Girish G Vaidya, Senior Vice-President and Business Head- Finacle, Infosys Technologies, said.

The new benchmark test has been reviewed by Ernst and Young, he said at a joint news conference with Abhijit Y Talwalkar, vice-president and General Manager of the Enterprise Platforms Group (EPG), Intel.

He said 11,180 TPS in online transactions translated to more than 40 million transactions per hour and 19,568 TPS in batch transactions translated to more than 70 million transactions per hour.

Finacle achieved the feat on HP Superdome servers powered by Intel's Itanuim 2 processors running Oracle 9.i, he said.

Vaidya said a close association with global technology majors like HP, Intel and Oracle had produced a highly optimised platform providing the customers better value for their technology investments.

He said they expected top 100 banks with large volumes of data, transactions, customers and accounts, to replace their core banking solutions over the next few years.

About 100 banks across 39 countries had installed Finacle, Merwin Fernandes, Vice-President and Global Head, Sales and Marketing, Banking Business Unit, Infosys, said.