Transaction process is a term that refers to the adding, changing, deleting, or looking up of a record in a data file or database by entering the data at a terminal or workstation. Most transaction ...

Dow, Inc., one of the largest material science companies in the world, has been at the front of a digital transformation before the term was in common usage. The company had a RFID center of ...

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

The cash method and accrual method are two ways to process sales transactions. The cash method records a sale when cash exchanges hands. The accrual method processes a sale without receiving money, ...

Most Chief Compliance Officers (CCOs) and compliance practitioners understand the need for transaction monitoring. Whether it be as a part of your overall monitoring of third parties, employees, or to ...

Documents matter. In trade finance, they are not administrative details. They are part of the financial structure of the ...

Annuity sellers, and everyone along the distribution chain, have long dreamed of technology that could reduce transaction times from weeks to hours. That time has come. Carriers are eagerly signing on ...

Yin and yang, life and death, Clark Kent and Superman. Some concepts are so intertwined that it’s impossible to imagine one without the other. Transaction processing (TP) and relational databases ...