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As more and more companies choose TANGO to replace their aging legacy payments systems, we thought we'd shed some extra light on it by talking with Brian Miller, our General Manager at Lusis Payments.  The consumer demand for faster, more secure 24/7 payments continues to challenge payments organizations across the globe. For many organizations, the costs and difficulties of nursing an aging payments platform are now unsustainable. As a result, these organizations are now planning to replace their legacy applications with a faster, more agile solution that can free their business from the constraints of an inflexible payments platform. Lusis Payments has set out to help payments organizations simplify and streamline their migration projects, reducing risks and delivering predictable progress milestones. As the innovative provider of TANGO, the mission-critical online transaction processing engine, Lusis Payments is making it much easier for organizations to keep pace with consumer desires for greater convenience, speed, and security in payments.
Q. What are the biggest challenges organizations with legacy transaction processing systems face today? Miller: Legacy systems bring a whole host of challenges for organizations. For example, one of our clients, a top-five global bank, found their 28-year-old legacy system severely constraining to their business. It had become too expensive to maintain and operate, development times were lengthy, and they were less able to compete in the market. When they started looking to replace the system, they realized that they were using the software throughout their entire line of banking services. Clearly, it would be crucial for the new solution to provide a highly extensible architecture, enable them to orchestrate low-risk migrations, and be powerful enough to handle diverse transactions and increasing volumes. Of course, they also wanted a solution that would reduce their cost of ownership and application life-cycle costs while increasing the bank's agility in adapting to consumers' changing needs. The ability to efficiently support new regulations and scheme mandates was another key requirement. The bank conducted an extensive analysis of the leading payment solution providers. The analysis showed that TANGO exceeded all the client's business and technical requirements, and TANGO outperformed its competitors in the areas of architecture, flexibility, and cost of ownership. Q. Why is TANGO so successful in replacing legacy systems, such as BASE24®? Miller: Much of Lusis Payments' success comes because TANGO is easily “built to order” because of its micro-services platform. We recognize that payments organizations need a solution that works the way they do, that empowers its staff, not hinder them. TANGO does this. A good example of this in action is our client BankservAfrica, which wanted to expand into the rapidly growing South African development community. Well, to do this, they needed a fully functional core system that could cope with fast-changing payment methods and customer requirements. TANGO also met BankservAfrica's business requirements, which included that it must be configurable, with specific monitoring capabilities. In addition, TANGO's cost and clear licensing structure appealed to the BankservAfrica team and our phased approach really makes for a painless migration. Q. It really says something that some of the largest banks in the world have chosen TANGO to replace their systems. What's something you want other organizations and financial institutions to know about TANGO as they may be looking at replacing legacy systems? Miller: At Lusis, it boils down to this. We don't care what transaction processing system you had. We want to hear about what functionalities you want for the present and the future. With TANGO, we can build whatever you need with scalability for any of your future needs as well. Q. What should organizations avoid when it comes to migrating their payments system? Miller: The most important advice I can give is don't wait. To be successful, organizations need to develop the operational skills and procedures to manage continual change. Migrating to a new payments solution is not a one time thing, it is actually a transition to a different operational lifestyle – one where change is the expected norm.
THE CLIENT This Lusis Payments customer is one of the largest financial institutions in the world. The organization has over 10 million global customers covering several public and business sectors. They provide tailored banking solutions for personal, small business, commercial and cross border payments. THE NEED: Freedom from a Constraining Legacy Payments Platform The client's business was becoming severely constrained by their 28 year-old legacy payments system. The high cost of ownership, lengthy development times, and soaring maintenance challenges became urgent pressures for change. The legacy software was widely utilized throughout the client's vast line of banking services. It was therefore crucial that the new solution would provide a highly extensible architecture, facilitate low-risk migration projects, and have the robustness to handle diverse and high-growth volumes. Additional high-priority requirements included;
“We have implemented more “new” functional capabilities in the last 3 years on the TANGO platform than we have in over a decade on our previous legacy platform. It is great to be free from all the constraints.”
 Please sign up ahead of time for our presentation: Today’s Payments Market: Creating Opportunities from Challenges - November 17th at 12:15 PM PST. Payment processing today is evolving at a rapid rate. It’s not just the technology, allowing more transactions to be generated through new channels. New players are constantly emerging in the marketplace and using new technology to provide exciting new financial services to consumers, who are less loyal to traditional financial institutions and are more demanding than ever. Organizations with legacy solutions face increasing costs to maintain/extend while requiring months/years of hard coding for development of new products for market. To keep pace in a dynamic industry and outperform competitors, you need modern, flexible solutions that help streamline new offerings. This presentation introduces TANGO from Lusis Payments, a state-of-the-art technology with unparalleled configurability provided by its microservices-based architecture. TANGO facilitates the rapid introduction of new business and technical services, enables seamless integration with in-house and third-party applications, and facilitates support for current and future payment components. These features combine not only to address today’s challenges, but also to create a modern payments platform to benefit from further technology and business advancements that will inevitably occur in the future.  TANGO’s architecture deeply integrates with some of the modern and core fundamentals of HPE NonStop such as use of OSS and TMF-protected SQL/MX database, and full exploitation of HPE NonStop “process pair” feature through its hypervisor process. The dispatcher functionality works together with HPE NonStop TS/MP to provide scalability and availability, and supports the active/active configuration. This further establishes HPE NonStop as one of the most ideal platforms to run your TANGO payments solution. Be sure to check out our presentation on November 17th at 12:15 PM PST at the NonStop Technical Boot Camp or visit: lusispayments.com/onewebcast to schedule a one-on-one Zoom call.
A TRULY INTEGRATED TRANSACTION PROCESSING ENGINE Lusis payments, the innovative provider of software and services to the payments industry, leads with TANGO, an online transaction processing engine for mission-critical 24x7 solutions including payments, retail, loyalty, finance, utilities, and transport. Payment processors across the globe rely on the total flexibility, high-performance processing, and built-in high availability of TANGO for acquiring, routing, switching, authenticating, and authorizing transactions across multiple channels, in a multi-institution environment across geographies. TANGO offers an open, integrated infrastructure that is highly scalable and efficient due to the genuine approach to SOA, which significantly reduces complexities and improves business responsiveness. With these attributes of TANGO, coupled with the fault-tolerance, near-linear scalability, and unmatched performance of HPE NonStop systems, the combined solution has been the go-to choice for many financial institutions (FIs) and payment processors to satisfy their mission-critical demands of highest efficiency and reliability. A COMPLETE PAYMENTS SOLUTION BUILT FOR THE FUTURE While payment processing is constantly evolving, the fundamentals have not changed—perform transactions at high speed with round-the-clock availability and absolute security. Changes come in the form of new financial services—how they are delivered and managed with increasing frequency. To keep pace in a dynamic industry and outperform competitors, you need modern, flexible solutions that help streamline new offerings. TANGO’s state-of-the-art technology and unparalleled configurability due to its microservices-based architecture foster creation of new business services rapidly, enable interoperability with in-house and third-party applications, and facilitate support for current and future payment components. And HPE NonStop is always adapting, such as hardware-independent HPE Virtualized NonStop in a VMware environment as well as support for rich tools for DevOps. Together, Lusis TANGO on HPE NonStop helps keep your payments processing environment at the forefront of financial services and customer experience.  TANGO ARCHITECTURE—FLEXIBLE, OPEN, AND HIGHLY AVAILABLE A TANGO system is a set of services (SOA) implemented in multi-instance process modules and federated by the dispatcher (load-balancer) with communications facilitated via a universal data bus. The data bus provides a standard data format (Type/Length/Value [TLV]) for all messages exchanged between services. Hence, TANGO Payments Server has no restrictions on transaction types: both standard and nonstandard transactions can be easily defined in the system, as can new transaction types and message flows. This flexibility easily accommodates new requirements and integration of new payment opportunities including external services for fintech APIs. TANGO’s specialized high-availability components integrated within the platform provide an active/active systems integration without the need for third-party solutions. The active/active support within TANGO allows any given terminal to connect to any of the application servers to provide 24x7 availability to customers. And to further the advantages, TANGO’s architecture deeply integrates with some of the modern and core fundamentals of HPE NonStop such as use of OSS and TMF-protected SQL/MX database, and full exploitation of HPE NonStop “process pair” feature through its hypervisor process. The dispatcher functionality works together with HPE NonStop TS/MP to provide scalability and availability, and supports the active/active configuration. This further establishes HPE NonStop as one of the most ideal platforms to run your TANGO payments solution. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE Lusis payment hub SOA architecture provides agility and scalability for an evolving marketplace
SAN FRANCISCO & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lusis Payments, a global innovator of mission-critical payments software, announced today that CIBC, a leading Canadian-based global financial institution, has migrated its POS, ATM, and Payments Hub to the Lusis TANGO platform. CIBC has been modernizing its payments infrastructure to improve their ability to meet the demands of today’s evolving payments ecosystem. TANGO is an online transaction processing engine for mission-critical 24x7 solutions including payments, retail, loyalty, finance, utilities, and transport. TANGO delivers performance, availability, and scalability, with a rich set of functionalities, all from a single application, a single code set and a single architecture. This flexibility makes TANGO ideal for the next generation of payment systems. CIBC selected Lusis Payments’ TANGO product for use across a range of banking channels. TANGO allowed the bank to move to an open platform built on a high-performing micro-service architecture providing agile banking needs. CIBC has also implemented a number of new functionalities and capabilities to its payments systems as a result of the migration. “TANGO is the payments HUB facing todays challenge,” said Philippe Preval, President and CEO of Lusis Payments. “TANGO is addressing business needs both now and in the foreseeable future. Our team worked closely with CIBC to provide the flexibility it needs in today’s evolving payments landscape.” About Lusis Payments Lusis Payments is an innovative global software and services provider to the payments industry. The company’s proven, cutting edge technology operates in numerous hardware and operating environments. The TANGO platform, combined with the know-how to mitigate risk and deliver high levels of assured customer service, constitutes a unique proposition for organizations faced with the challenge of adapting to traditional and future needs in the payments ecosystem. Contacts Lusis Payments Brian D. Miller, 415-829-4577 General Manager Brian.Miller@lusispayments.com |
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