Straight Through Processing

The term Continuous Processing (STP ) or English Straight Through Processing (STP ) refers to:

• In computer science, a concept of information processing with as few interactions and avoidance of media breaks.
• In the economy a business model, integrated and cross-company processes in terms of e-business are processed with minimal interaction effort in the incoming orders in the frame.

Notes

Business process integration in computer science to allow using the methods of enterprise application integration and with the aid of web technologies to communicate with partners and customers straight through processing. STP in the economy is thus closely linked to the importance of this concept in computer science, since only enable the technologies for business process integration respective business models.

Examples in practice

In a business environment STP was mainly in the 90 years in the banking environment is an important issue. While in the past the different types of transactions ( eg transfer processes ) always required manual work, the need for an integrated automation of the processes was ( STP ) are increasingly important. By STP money or securities transactions were processed on the same day and completed.

While STP was the optimization of batch runs and chains, the paradigm of online transaction -processing OLTP came on, which provided the online processing of transactions.