RLPTechnologies Chooses Red Hat and JBoss Solutions

  
    
  
  
    
      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 http://www.redhat.com
    
    
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