Our Technology Macintosh is not often thought of as a computer for enterprise applications. The reality is that with the right software the platform is an ideal, cost effective and high performance system. AAC Tenant Screening & Credit Report Services, started with the goal of providing reliable high volume, real-time risk management services for mission critical operations in internet companies, property management firms, banks and other credit lending organizations. As a startup company cost was a key factor. Volume would be expected to ramp up over time necessitating a scalable architecture capable of growing with the business. Many different platforms were considered including mainframe, largeunix, & other personal computer systems.

Most systems presented large up front costs to achieve the required performance. The less expensive systems often lacked the features or performance to make them practical. Of the available systems, the Macintosh offered the best overall value. Support of industry standards such as TCP/IP, SCSI and PCI coupled with the performance of the PowerPC processor and its ease of use put the Macintosh far ahead of the competition. The key to using these systems for high performance database applications was the creation of proprietary software. Our software allows tasks to be split up over an arbitrary number of machines, increasing performance and reliability.