Emmi > System Scalability

It’s sad but true, many applications that have the appeal to attract an ever-larger group of users fail because they can’t scale to meet the ever-growing processing demands. Emmi was designed to both attract users and to scale to meet any processing demand.

Emmi’s first line of defense is simple – the application was written to balance the workload between the user’s browser and the host servers. The average IPA can host Emmi on a modest pair of servers (application server and database server) with excellent results.

IPAs that are hosting multiple processing centers – because they have an international client base or because they act as a service bureau for other IPAs – can be assured that Emmi can scale in an almost infinite manner using industry-standard infrastructure technology.

The Emmi Application

The Emmi “application” runs on a standard Windows Server™ platform. If the IPA’s processing needs outstrips the processing capabilities of a single, commodity-class server, the application can be hosted on multiple load-balanced commodity-class servers or a single Itanium 2 EPIC Architecture multi-processor server.

The Emmi Database

The standard version of the Emmi application makes use of the Microsoft SQL Server database. SQL Server scalability can be achieved in any number of manners including solutions as simple as Distributed Partitioned Views technology (DPV), which is built into SQL Server and can be accomplished using multiple commodity servers.

For shops with large scalability needs and non-SQL Server expertise, the Emmi database can be hosted on a midrange or mainframe computer using Oracle or IBM DB/II.