SAN FRANCISCO, October 29 /PRNewswire/ --     GoldenGate's technology enables Swedbank to maximize investment of its
payment processing system through an ActiveGoldenGate Software Inc.
(http://www.goldengate.com), a leading provider of high availability and
real-time data integration solutions, today announced that it is working with
Swedbank BABS, a Swedbank company, to enable 24/7 continuous availability of
its mission critical payment processing system which supports over one
billion transactions per year. Additionally, the GoldenGate(R) high
availability solution allows Swedbank to perform planned system upgrades and
migrations with zero downtime.

Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Swedbank is one of the largest retail banks
in the Nordic region. Swedbank BABS processes electronic payment requests for
a number of Swedish and overseas banks, as well as ATM payments and payment
requests from Swedbank's own customers.

Swedbank authorizes and authenticates large volumes of banking
transactions using ACI's BASE24(TM) application, which runs on two HP NonStop
servers located in disparate geographic locations. By using the GoldenGate
Active/Active solution, both HP NonStop systems are leveraged and thereby
facilitate continuous operations. As both systems process transactions
concurrently, the GoldenGate solution's conflict detection and resolution
capabilities are intended to identify and automatically resolve any data
conflicts. During the implementation process, the IT group determines the
business rules which determine how to resolve any complex data conflicts and
these can be automated via the GoldenGate solution's out-of-the-box
capabilities for the BASE24 application environment.

Having the two systems actively processing transactions means that
redundancy is "built in" and if one system needs to be taken offline for any
maintenance work, the other takes over processing all the transactions and
can efficiently handle the load. The prior payments processing system
consisted of just one HP NonStop system running BASE24, which made it
impossible to achieve 24/7 availability.

Magnus Kleveby, Systems Area Manager for Authorization Processing at
Swedbank, said: "Before upgrading our payments processing system, we had used
a 'hot' back-up site for testing the system, essentially a duplicate of the
original site, as well as near-complete backups of user data. But this simply
wasn't good enough for the type of system we were running.

Having evaluated various data migration and availability solutions, we
decided to deploy GoldenGate because of its interoperability with the ACI
BASE24 application, and because the solution had already been proven
elsewhere at Swedbank where it was deployed by other departments. Our
experience of working with GoldenGate has always exceeded our expectations in
terms of service.

In the event of an unexpected outage, we can restore data within seconds
and the system can cope with sudden peaks in demand, such as at the end of
the month when most people do a lot of shopping or go online to pay bills.
GoldenGate has given us the assurance we were looking for and we can maintain
our level of customer service no matter what. We have been using this full
dual site Active/Active solution with GoldenGate continuously since 2006 with
no outages or service issues.

We have also used GoldenGate to migrate our payments application on to a
new HP Integrity platform, running BASE24, so we could replace our existing
HP NonStop servers. Using GoldenGate, this was done seamlessly and with no
outage to the system," concluded Kleveby.

Richard Dobber, Managing Director for EMEA at GoldenGate BV, said: "For
any banking and payments system, an outage of any kind severely impacts
customer satisfaction and loyalty which ultimately effects revenue.
GoldenGate's technology is designed to manage high volumes of data across the
widest range of database and hardware environments and our flexible
architecture allows for many different configurations. We are finding that
Active/Active is the optimal deployment for mission critical environments
like that of Swedbank. We are very happy to provide this capability and
benefit to Swedbank and its customers," concluded Dobber.

About GoldenGate Software

GoldenGate Software Inc. is a leading provider of high availability and
real-time data integration solutions for improving the availability,
accessibility and performance of critical data across enterprise systems.
GoldenGate's technology offerings enable businesses to capture, route,
transform, deliver, and verify transactional data in real time across
heterogeneous IT environments. With more than 350 enterprises using
GoldenGate solutions worldwide, GoldenGate products drive solutions for
critical initiatives in high availability, disaster tolerance, and real-time
data integration. Enterprises using GoldenGate solutions include Visa, Bank
of America, US Bank, UBS, Sabre Holdings, DIRECTV, Comcast, Federated
Investors, Mayo Foundation and Overstock.com. GoldenGate broadens its global
market reach through key relationships with leading application and
technology vendors including ACI Worldwide, Amdocs, Business Objects, Cerner,
Eclipsys, GE Healthcare, HP, IBM, Ingres, Oracle, Teradata, and others. A
private company, GoldenGate is headquartered in San Francisco and can be
found on the Web at http://www.goldengate.com .

About Swedbank

Swedbank is the leading bank in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
with 17 000 employees serving 9 million private and 475 000 corporate
customers. It was named Bank of the Year, 2005, in Sweden, Bank of the Year,
2005, in Lithuania, Most highly respected Company, 2005, in Latvia and has
been named Best bank in Estonia for six consecutive years. In July 2007
Swedbank acquired TAS-Kommerzbank in Ukraine, Kiev. "TAS" has over 190
branches and 3,000 employees serving over 125,000 private customers and
16,000 corporate customers. Today, the company operates under the Swedbank
and Hansabank names in the Swedish and Baltic retail markets respectively.