OLTP

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OLTP is, in computing, an acronym for on-line transaction processing.

This is a class of program that facilitates and manages transaction-oriented applications, typically for data entry and retrieval in a number of industries, including banking, airlines, mailorder, supermarkets, and manufacturing. Probably the most widely installed OLTP product is IBM's CICS (Customer Information Control System).

Today's online transaction processing increasingly requires support for transactions that span a network and may include more than one company. For this reason, new OLTP software uses client/server processing and brokering software that allows transactions to run on different computer platforms in a network.

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