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What is the use of mainframe computers?

Mainframe computers are computers used primarily by corporate and governmental organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and transaction processing.

Banks and Financial Institutions

Banking and financial institutions use mainframe computers to perform thousands of customer transactions per second, support thousands of applications that concurrently access multiple resources, manage and store terabytes of database information and handle large volumes of communication.

Health Care

Mainframe computers are used in health care organizations to improve productivity, maximize revenues and streamline information.

Insurance Companies

Insurance companies store business data and other records on mainframe computers. The machines process large volumes of numerical data generated by insurance companies. They hold claims, financial and customer information and enable insurance personnel to strengthen relationships with customers.

Schools

Many schools and other educational institutions use centralized mainframe computers to store information pertaining to students, school courses and teachers.


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