Organizations such as the Banking & finance sector use directories to support global communications and e-commerce, and they form the basis of a cost-effective infrastructure for compiling, distributing, managing and securing information. For businesses in the finance industry, including banking and insurance institutions, centralizing and securing data in a cost-effective way is crucial to market competitiveness.

In one example in the Banking sector a Bank’s startup delays stemmed from the system designed to provide secure online banking transactions. Digital certificates authenticated the thousands of customers accessing the bank’s data through Internet connections and the Bank stored all its digital certificates in an database, organized under a “root” directory with a “tree” hierarchy of information. Every customer who banked online had a digital certificate stored in one small, separate branch of the “tree.” The system was well received by customers, but the original information tree design proved to be incapable of handling such a large number of users. The system limitations resulted in a very slow startup time.

The View500 Directory is a high-performance LDAP-based directory server. It can handle hundreds of millions of entries while maintaining performance, reliability, security and ease of use. In this case the results are spectacular, furthermore by using eB2Bcom’s Express Sync conversion tools, it can take only a few hours to import the data from various external repositories into the Banking Directory server.. In this case the startup time dropped from more than 90 minutes to three minutes. In the Banking sector the number of directory entries can climb into the millions because Directories are becoming the central point of information technology for many companies. View500 can thus act as an authentication server by automatically verifying users' attempts to access corporate data based on access check lists, which can be updated in real-time to reflect changes occurring in the company. The high-level performance of View500 also means millionsof users and applications can access data simultaneously.