Portal Platform

RALEIGH, N.C.–(EMWNews)–Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source

solutions, today announced that Daiwa Securities America Inc., one of

Japan’s largest securities brokerages with a

focus on sales and trading of Japanese and U.S. Equities and

fixed-income instruments, financial futures and investment banking, has

migrated from proprietary solutions to JBoss Enterprise Application and

Portal Platforms. As a result, Daiwa has cut application development

time in half, dramatically improved application performance and saved

over $300,000 in licensing and hardware costs.

In 2006, Daiwa Securities America faced issues with the internal portal

that 250 of its employees depended on to access the applications

necessary to execute on their daily responsibilities. The portal, called

DSAweb, supports 120 of Daiwa’s internal

applications, ranging from its Compliance Dashboard to back-office

integration systems. With frequent crashes and downtime for the DSAweb

portal, Daiwa’s former proprietary solution

caused both business and technical issues that threatened

business-critical functions. When Daiwa’s

previous proprietary application server released a new version with

much-needed functionality, it provided further frustrations for Daiwa

because it had a large number of bugs that delayed application

time-to-market. In addition, Daiwa couldn’t

find adequate support for the solution.

“It got to the point where we couldn’t

keep the server up for more than a week at a time,”

said Tom Cordova, senior vice president, Information Technology at Daiwa

Securities America, Inc. “When it crashed, we’d

be down for as long as 90 minutes at a stretch. Our users wouldn’t

be able to do what they needed to keep our business running. You can’t

get more mission-critical than that. When we upgraded our proprietary

solution and faced issues, the vendor suggested we needed to purchase

additional hardware and software licenses to solve the problems we were

having. We thought this was outrageous, and it pushed us to find another

solution.”

With some previous experience with JBoss solutions, Daiwa first

downloaded a free version of the JBoss.org Portal project. Recognizing

the mission-critical nature of the DSAweb portal, Daiwa quickly

purchased a subscription to the JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform to

benefit from the stability and reliability of an enterprise-class

platform including support, patches and updates.

Over the course of the next year, Daiwa migrated its 120 DSAweb

applications to JBoss and developed and went live with 80 new

applications. In addition to the Portal Platform, Daiwa also uses the

JBoss Rules framework to embed alerts into portal applications, has

incorporated the caching functionality of the JBoss Enterprise

Application Platform to seamlessly and securely share information across

applications and uses the message queuing functionality also included in

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. With Alfresco’s

open source content management system, it additionally provides its

employees with single sign-on access.

Since migrating to JBoss solutions, Daiwa has reduced costs and improved

performance dramatically. Daiwa saved $300,000 by avoiding software

licensing and hardware expenses that were demanded by its previous

solution. The company’s developers are also

now able to compile and roll out new applications in seconds, rather

than in the 15 minutes required previously. With JBoss solutions, Daiwa

employees are more productive with faster portal application loading

time, developer productivity has increased with the ease of development

on open source solutions and JBoss support from Red Hat has been fast

and reliable.

“With JBoss, we’re

a much more agile company,” said Steve

Dunstan, enterprise systems architect and senior vice president,

Information Technology at Daiwa Securities America, Inc. “Today,

if the business needs a new application, we can deliver it immediately.

If our portal were to go down today, it would be catastrophic. JBoss

Enterprise Application and Portal platforms have been extremely reliable

and stable. JBoss is a trusted, worry-free solution that helps us sleep

better at night.”

Daiwa has recently begun a project to develop Web 2.0 applications and

is utilizing a clustered server environment that will be monitored by

JBoss Operations Network.

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