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Essentially, business transactions are processed by transaction processing systems, which are made up of both hardware and software running a transaction-oriented application that can conduct routine ...

Credit card processing services for business are essential, both online and offline. But with the large number of options available to you it can be confusing to decide which might be best for you.

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come ...

TimesTen on Monday will release Version 5.1 of its data management and transaction processing system, focusing on the “real-time enterprise.” The product line is being expanded with three ...

The Virginia Department of Elections sent 149,000 voting-related transactions to local registrars for processing. This happened due to an IT issue that was previously identified.

Processing fees vary by the method of payment, but the firm uses Interchange pricing, with an additional transaction fee.

The simpler algorithm supported Litecoin’s faster transaction speeds. Bitcoin has a slow transaction processing speed of roughly five transactions per second.

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come ...

Batch processing is less expensive than online input. It uses very little computer processing time to prepare a batch of data; most of the computing occurs when the batch executes.