BASE24 Conversion Options

BASE24 Conversion Options

With ACIs announcement of a sunset date for BASE24 payments products on HP NonStop servers, current customers were left to ponder their future direction. What are your options? Below, we will discuss a variety of options, including maintaining your investment in the HP NonStop platform, migrating to more modern open technology and outsourcing your electronic funds transfer (EFT) processing operations. Whatever your future direction, FIS is here to help. Rising customer expectations Financial institutions must stay ahead of their competitors by delivering a more personalised banking experience for their customers. FIS leverages its broad EFT expertise and assets to make it simple and easy for nancial institutions to dene and deploy their own differentiated EFT growth strategy. Financial institutions are looking to build a sustainable competitive advantage that drives reliable, protable growth and appeals to their customers rising expectations. Customers want their nancial institutions to know them better giving them everything they need, when they need it. They expect to be able to make a wide variety of payments just about anywhere, anytime whether at their local automated teller machine (ATM), in their living room or in the park on their smart phone. In addition, with the wide array of options readily available to them, they wont hesitate to switch institutions if their needs are not met. Trust the industry leader FIS is an EFT software specialist. Our experience stretches back more than 40 years to the advent of ATMs and EFT processing. FIS has been there every step of the way leading the industry with superior solutions and leveraging highperformance technology to meet the increasing demands and exceed the expectations of the EFT processing business. Leading nancial institutions, networks, retailers and third-party processors throughout the world rely on FIS and our EFT software products, to power billions of transaction every year. Whether you are looking to maintain your investment in the HP NonStop platform or are ready to explore more modern
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open technologies, get ready for the speed, functionality, exibility and scalability of the FIS EFT software suite, delivered and supported by the pioneers of the EFT industry. Option 1: maintain your investment in the HP NonStop platform FIS is committed to Connex on HP NonStop today and for the future. FIS has chosen this transaction processing platform to power our own data centres for EFT processing. Connex HP NonStop is a comprehensive solution for all payments processing needs, from online transaction processing to settlement and backofce processing. By choosing to replace BASE24 Classic with Connex on HP NonStop, you can implement a world-class enterprise transaction processing solution on your existing HP NonStop hardware. This allows you to maintain your investment in the HP NonStop platform, including the people and resources in place today that manage and maintain your operation. This strategy will minimise the effort and mitigate the risk of a migration to a new switching solution. Connex software on HP NonStop is one of the most used EFT software solutions in the world not to mention one of the most powerful, most reliable and most cost-effective. Add the renowned reliability and performance of the HP NonStop platform and you have a total EFT solution that lets you take on processing with condence. Option 2: harness the power of open technology You can take this opportunity to transform your payments operations and leverage the value of open systems technology by replacing BASE24 with IST/Switch. The maturation of open technologies, including UNIX and AIX operating systems, has signicantly altered the payment processing landscape, presenting more exible, low-cost platform alternatives designed to drive down total cost of ownership (TCO) and improve timeto-market. IST/Switch is a high-performance and highavailability solution for payment transaction

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processing. The solution is ideal for nancial institutions, networks or processors of any size looking to leverage open technologies in their payments processing environment. IST/Switch enables nancial institutions to transform their infrastructure on an open platform to reduce ongoing IT costs and protect future investments. By consolidating multiple channels onto a single platform and allowing the exibility to add multiple institutions easily, IST/Switch drives higher processing revenues. With a wide range of off-the-shelf interfaces and support for open systems, hardware and databases, IST/Switchs exible open architecture speeds development and product launch. This ease of conguration allows for zero programming, plug-and-play, dynamic updating with no system down time. A modular system, IST/Switch was developed on open system platforms. It supports HP UX, IBM AIX and SUN Solaris operating systems; Oracle and DB2 database engines; and Websphere, Apache Tomcat and Oracle App Server Web containers. IST/Switch distributed processing features provide a high-volume, high-availability and highly scalable switch processing environment for open systems. This enables the ability to run an active-active environment allowing customers business continuity and disaster recovery strategies. Option 3: outsource to a trusted partner FIS is unique in providing its customers the ability to run software solutions in-house or outsource parts of the payment processing operation to FIS to achieve the most costefcient combination of software and services. A leading provider of outsourced transaction processing and customer account management solutions, FIS can combine its technology with a full range of service delivery options from inhouse managed software to a fully outsourced solution or anywhere in between.

No matter which option you choose: exibility, performance, scalability FIS EFT solutions are used by nancial institutions, networks, retailers and third-party processors of all sizes, worldwide. Our exible, modular architecture, allows you to congure a solution that is right for your business, by licensing the components that you need today and adding functionality in the future as you need it, as your EFT business grows. In this business, uptime is money. Our EFT products lead the industry in processing availability. Our EFT software products are optimised with continuous processing for the highest possible throughput. Because our own data centre is one of our largest customers, we have developed efciencies through hands-on experience. Take the guesswork out of conversions FIS has a proven track record of delivering complex projects on time and within budget. We have successfully supported conversion projects for some of the worlds largest networks and nancial institutions. Our full-service team of EFT software development and support professionals follows a thorough, four-stage conversion process that takes all the worry out of crossing over. Throughout the process we provide extensive support to your people so they can be self-sufcient in the years to come. The bottom line: we make sure your solution works for you and we provide the training and support to keep it that way. Contact us For more information on how FIS can help your business, please visit www.sglobal.com or contact us at one of our international locations.

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