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Contents
Why is High System Availability Important ?
Confronting Inaction in the Cybersecurity Industry
2020 REFLECTIONS FROM LUSIS PAYMENTS
Seasons......
Tributary Systems, Inc. Announces the Introduction of...
Newsletters
Outlook 2021
NuWave Technologies and Pay Intelligence Announce Partnership in Latin America
Bright...
A Year of Insider Technologies
Protect Your Software Assets with HPE Shadowbase Software
A SOLD-OUT SUCCESS!
Why did Synchrony choose OmniPayments?
Virtual TBC 2020 - A Resounding Success!
Why is High System Availability Important ?
- in “ Cloud Computing “ and with “ Platforms “
How many " 9’s" does your application need to - meet or exceed user expectations, address increasing business demands, and avoid outage impact ?
When it comes to system availability, whether for “ cloud computing “ or on a “ platform “ , people frequently hear about " 9’s " of uptime. Many
service level agreements (SLAs) specify at least 99.9 % availability (3 9’s - or - < 9 hours of downtime / year), or, 99.99 % (4 9’s – or – < 1 hour of downtime / year). In conjunction with this, to further define system performance, the SLA Availability Metrics agreed on need to be from the End User perspective and apply from the time the application initially goes live.When people talk about a service being highly available, the following chart is what they're referring to. The major cloud and platform providers can perform to the level requested with traditional systems typically with an army of technical personnel, many tools, as well as decades of established processes and experience. Alternatively, with Fault-tolerant and newer networked systems, the burden to achieve high availability level is less – either a little less or a lot less – depending on the availability objective as well as the sophistication of the cloud service or platform. As you can see in the chart, the more demanding the application or service importance to the organization, the more 9’s the better -
Because achieving very high service availability is very challenging and costly with popular systems, is why only very large organizations with extensive funding and resources can have these information services in-house. However with costs and complexity increasing, to reduce the burden and get better value, is why Cloud Computing and/or using Fault-Tolerant Platforms is appealing. This is important in an increasingly on-line, real-time, all-the-time world to meet expanding business needs, rising User expectations, improve agility and responsiveness, deliver greater value, etc.
For example, a simple static website can easily expect to achieve 4 9’s or more of uptime - because there are few potential points of failure. Yes, there's the web server and the machine it is running on, but with the addition of a floating IP address, a load balancer and a redundant server - it would be rare if people experienced any preventable downtime. For a more complex, monolithic web application, while 4 9’s may be possible, the pressure to achieve it increases as you add components to the mix – ie: new services / applications, many Users, numerous devices, a database, caching servers, object storage, etc. Further, segment the application into microservices, and the number of potential failure points grows !
Understanding this is important since as the complexity of an application increases so too does the risk of losing a 9 in availability. With popular systems, while you can add more redundancies to improve availability, this increases costs and complexity. For example, it’s challenging to keep multiple copies of a database in sync, avoid data corruption when a failure occurs, etc.). In addition, because IT operations demands have grown and become more complex, it’s to the point where there are cases where there too many alerts for human operators to process and little to no visibility into which alerts are impacting business. And it’s only getting worse with the addition of new devices and the growing list of enterprise digital services — which further slows detection and resolution times. This is a huge issue that is becoming more problematic because of the many siloed system management tools, the periodic need for manual intervention, and the challenges to find the exact root cause of problems – despite extensive work and investment to automate processes. The fundamental issue is trying to fix the plane in flight !
With there being much information to achieve the needed
levels of availability, the next step is to identify the consequences of losing a nine in your SLA. For example, how will your customers react if you have 54 minutes of downtime versus 540 minutes or 5,400 minutes in a year ? How many customers will you lose at each of those levels ? See Aligning Applications and Platforms for insights on improving outcomes by mapping application importance / business impact – with – the appropriate cloud service / platform. Extending on the 9’s requirement, given the importance of success with digital services to the future of every organization, have penalties for SLA non-compliance (ie: $1m / minute for excessive downtime / system outage from when the application goes live). This is important to respect the consequences of not performing (ie: financial loss, business devaluation, lost Customers, inability to attract new business / Customers, challenges to attract and retain talent, etc.)These are important considerations to address in an SLA – whether for a Cloud service or with Platforms to support information services essential to the business – today, and even more so going forward. High availability is important – and the more important the application, the more important it runs in a very high availability computing environment. Examples of important applications where the need is for 7 9’s or high availability are - ATMs, POS and Payment Systems, communication services, e-commerce platforms, numerous enterprise on-line services, tele-health, etc. From this, it’s clear these digital capabilities are essential for an “ always on organization “. In addition, to prudently manage the downside, 7 9’s or higher availability are also important to mitigate risk and avoid brand damage from unplanned system outages or poor performance during peak activity periods. For confirmation of the high cost of not understanding risk, ask the folks at Wells Fargo, NASDAQ, Lloyds, Robinhood Markets, Google, etc. - who experienced severe consequences from system outages with their on-line services !
For additional insights on better positioning your organization for success with high availability information services, and how NonStop contributes in the “ Cloud “ or as a “ Platform “, see –
Improving Business Outcomes with NonStop
By Ronald Thompson , CAIL
www.cail.com info@cail.com
Confronting Inaction in the Cybersecurity Industry
2020 was another troubling year in the cybersecurity world. We saw a repeat of 2019’s data breaches on a larger scale. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Nintendo, WaWa and many more fell victim to some sort of compromise. Hardly a week went by where we weren’t reading about a new mega-breach or ransomware attack. One unidentified agency even exposed an 800-gigabyte database of over 200 million personal user records. No one was off-limits. It’s to the point where we’ve become numb to the
news of security breaches; we shrug it off and move on. But as consumers, we should be concerned with the lackluster cybersecurity practices these companies have in place. It’s clearly not protecting our data.
According to IBM, the average time to detect and respond to a data breach in 2020 is 280 days. This year’s global pandemic has made every industry a huge target with healthcare and the public sector leading the pack. On average, these industries spent over 320 days to detect and contain a cyberattack and cost tens of millions of dollars in some cases.
Billions are spent on security each year, so why is this still an issue?
How Passwords will Change Your Business Strategy
One of the most critical security risks to any organization are passwords, especially default passwords and passwords to privileged accounts, which have elevated access to perform administrative functions. These can be administrator accounts, service accounts, database connection accounts, application accounts and others. Most of these accounts were set up ages ago when an application or system was initially deployed. They have multiple integration points and because of the risk of “breaking something,” the passwords for these accounts are rarely rotated, likely shared and often improperly stored.
Privileged account abuse is the most common way for hackers to compromise a system. Proper credential storage and accountability is paramount to risk mitigation. Relying on manual methods is resource-intensive, error-prone and leaves gaps.
According to a Varonis report, nearly 40% of all users sampled have passwords that have never been rotated! These passwords have a higher likelihood of showing up in online password dumps and being used to infiltrate networks. Simply put – they’re a cyber criminal’s best friend. This is how hackers walk in right through the front door. Not because they’re clever, rather because we make it too easy for them.
Proper password management can be overwhelming to manage, but it doesn’t have to be. To solve these challenges,
XYPRO has partnered with SailPoint and CyberArk, two of the cybersecurity industry’s premiere security providers and leaders in their respective Gartner magic quadrants. XYGATE Identity Connector (XIC), is the first and only CyberArk and SailPoint certified integration for HPE NonStop servers. Integrate HPE NonStop with your existing enterprise investments in CyberArk and SailPoint to secure, manage, automate and log all activities associated with privileged access. This seamless integration means visibility, traceability, automation and ensuring passwords are not the achilles heel that sinks your organization.
XYPRO and SPLUNK :
The Data to Everything Platform
2020 saw an upward trend in breach detection and containment. Data volumes, velocity and variety are increasing beyond human capabilities. We simply cannot keep up.
To address this need, HPE delivers XYGATE Merged Audit (XMA) with every HPE NonStop server. A widely deployed and proven solution, XMA is the HPE supported method of integrating your HPE NonStop data with SPLUNK and other SIEMs. XMA collects data from application, system and audit logs into a single, normalized SQL database to generate reports and forward data to the log management or analytics solution of your choice.
Without having to purchase any additional software, XMA communicates directly with enterprise solutions like Splunk “…to modernize your security operations and strengthen your cyber defenses”.
This data is aggregated, filtered, formatted and forwarded in real time. Did I mention you don’t have to buy any additional software? XMA is on your NonStop servers already! You own it!
Getting HPE NonStop server data to Splunk is easy. Whether your data is in native XMA/NonStop format, Common Event Format (CEF), or a custom format, it can be sent to multiple targets. The only thing to decide is which data you want to send.
Installed and set up within minutes, configuring XMA to talk to Splunk takes even less time. Pop the settings into the provided template and off you go.
Now you can leverage all the capabilities of SPLUNK to generate reports, alerts, dashboards and more for your NonStop system and application data. Again, there is nothing additional to purchase.
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2020 REFLECTIONS FROM LUSIS PAYMENTS
As the end of the year draws near we would like to take the opportunity to thank all of our clients, partners and teammates for an extraordinary year, amidst the challenges of the global coronavirus pandemic which has affected families, businesses and communities. Our thoughts go out to anyone who has been impacted by the virus especially those who are sick, we extend our heartfelt wishes for a full recovery.
We have always said “we hold our clients central to our thinking and our actions” and that statement holds true this year more than ever. The success of Lusis Payments is based on the relationships we have built over the years, and we really wouldn’t be where we are without you. Over this past year, as more and more North American financial institutions have called upon Lusis Payments for our technology and services we added our first North American support center in Toronto Canada and have made NA our primary market. Until this year, Lusis had only sales and consulting teams in North America. The addition of this facility and the team assembled will dramatically accelerate new and current project deployments of TANGO.
The need for a cutting-edge, real-time fraud solution has never been so critical as it is now. The world has seen an unprecedented switch from CP (cardholder present), CNP (cardholder not present) to online transactions, which has massively changed the patterns of fraudulent activity for OLTP (online transaction processing). Our clients that process online payments needed the agility to rapidly counteract this industry swing. This year Lusis introduced TANGO AI Fraud (Tango AIF™) to provide a leading-edge solution for fraud monitoring, detection and action — technology that provides the latest methods for processing secure transactions, irrespective of source, nature or market segment. The development has followed years of dedication by our Artificial Intelligence department, created in 2017. As part of our continued dedication to AI, earlier this year Lusis created a research chair in partnership with CentraleSupélec a prestigious French graduate engineering school of Paris-Saclay University. Through this partnership, Lusis and CentraleSupélec are strengthening their collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence applied to the banking sector.
This summer Lusis also announced further expansion as we increased our presence in Mexico and select countries of Latin America. We were excited to introduce Mercedes Fabila as the newest addition to our sales executive team. Fabila joined the company as the Director of Sales, Mexico and Latin America.
Our most exciting news for the year was the new release of TANGO Version 8. TANGO V8 is a major upgrade that provides full microservice integration and complete Cloud capacities. The new features bring expanded capacities and even greater flexibility for delivery. Please contact us directly for a one-on-one presentation of TANGO’s full capabilities and new capacities.
Recently, we were able to interact with several clients, partners
and friends during the Virtual NonStop Technical Bootcamp. Through
zooms or instant messages, we were happy to answer questions and be
able to say hello to colleagues in the industry. Our presentation
“Today’s Payments Market: Creating Opportunities from Challenges” is
still available for viewing through the Whova app.
As the new year approaches, we know there will be many new challenges
ahead. We welcome all that 2021 has in store for us with enthusiasm and
anticipation for all the opportunities around the world.
From the whole team at Lusis Payments we wish you all Happy Holidays!
Brian Miller
General Manager
415-829-4577
Brian.Miller@lusispayments.com
Seasons......
Seasons Greetings from Tandemworld.
We look forward to you all staying Safe and to a healthier and safer 2021.
Tributary Systems, Inc. Announces the Introduction of Storage Director Cloud™
Tributary Systems, Inc. has just announced that the Storage Director Cloud™ enterprise cloud backup solution will now be available on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system. The new Storage Director Cloud is designed to be a cloud native backup solution running on AWS as well as any private and hybrid cloud of a managed service provider (MSP). Importantly, the use of RHEL augments the already strategic business partnership Tributary Systems has with IBM.
Forming the technological cornerstone of Storage Director Cloud is Tributary Systems’ Storage Director®, a proven on-premise, software-defined, scalable and tiered enterprise data backup solution developed for all enterprise computing platforms employing Windows®, Linux®, VMware, IBM AIX, IBM Power i/iSeries and HP NonStop™ operating systems. In addition, software-defined backup virtualization platform, the Storage Director Cloud will run in public and private clouds and will feature an iSCSI frontend interface allowing for cloud native data backups as well as backup of Storage Director is compatible with TSM/Spectrum Protect, NetBackup, Commvault, Veeam, BRMS and all other enterprise backup applications.
The Storage Director Cloud enhanced feature set includes:
· Timely RHEL security patches and operating system releases, managed by Red Hat
· Support for both Fiber Channel and iSCSI connectivity, allowing Cloud Native functionality
· Enhanced back-end tiering capabilities to IBM Spectrum Protect in addition to NAS, object storage and tape targets
· Separate data backups can be managed on a single deployment of Storage Director with advanced multi-instance management with multi-tenancy
· Stand Alone instances of virtual drives can be maintained on a single Storage Director server
Tributary Systems’ CEO Shawn Sabanayagam said “Storage Director Cloud is a unique solution designed for the evolving needs of our enterprise customers to migrate data to public cloud while maintaining flexibility to also backup data from on-premise workloads with automated tiering.”
Initial rollout of Storage Director Cloud will take place in North America, with plans for global deployment immediately thereafter. Storage Director Cloud will be sold to customers directly by Tributary Systems as well as through existing and new partner/reseller networks.
Recall that Tributary Systems has been a HPE NonStop OEM solutions
supplier and partner for over two decades; we know NonStop and
understand NonStop customer requirements, allowing NonStop customers to
seamlessly take advantage of the new Storage Director Cloud feature set.
Recall that Tributary Systems has been a HPE NonStop OEM solutions supplier and partner for over two decades; we know NonStop and understand NonStop customer requirements.
Also, visit www.tributary.com for complete details on Storage Director Cloud, Back-ups to Public Clouds, Cloud Object Storage, and data security, and feel free to contact sales@tributary.com or our Director of Sales, Matt Allan at 713-492-7434
Storage Director allows NonStop professionals to “augment what they have and use it in creative new ways!”
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Outlook 2021
CSP has been working tirelessly to provide reliable security solutions that help corporations ensure compliance and maintain their critical systems and applications secure.
If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it is that we take security for granted. COVID-19 has upended our lives, and we now face ambiguity and unpredictability daily. However, we see this as an opportunity to remind organizations of the importance of maintaining their critical systems and applications secure. Many organizations are now taking cybersecurity as seriously as they should have before the pandemic. Security is no longer only about compliance but a matter of stability and persistence. For most organizations, cybersecurity has become the number one pressing issue.
Numerous enterprises have now moved to fully working remotely. It means that every organizational employee is remotely accessing and using the company’s data. This situation can pose several security risks. The only manner in which we can mitigate and address these risks is by focusing on cybersecurity.
CSP’s outlook for 2021 is optimistic and includes a renewed commitment to modernizing our security tools and providing enhanced benefits for our customers. We are currently working on several exciting projects, which we will be sharing early next year.
Securing NonStop Systems Effectively
With CSP’s Trusted Security Solutions
User access, command control, file integrity monitoring, and multi-factor authentication are all critical compliance requirements for NonStop systems.
CSP provides several comprehensive security solutions that will protect your NonStop systems and ensure that you meet all of your compliance requirements. Organizations are relying on CSP’s trusted security solutions more than ever to ensure the integrity of their applications.
CSP - Compliance at your Fingertips™
For complimentary access to CSP-Wiki®, an extensive repository of NonStop security knowledge and best practices, please visit
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NuWave Technologies and Pay Intelligence Announce Partnership in Latin America
NuWave Technologies, the leading Web services provider for HPE
NonStop, has recently announced a partnership with Pay Intelligence,
a new Mexico-based value-added reseller. This partnership allows Pay
Intelligence to sell NuWave solutions to NonStop customers in
Mexico, and across Latin America.
Dave Belliveau, NuWave Technologies CTO, commented on the new
relationship: "We are very much looking forward to working with Pay
Intelligence to deliver our solutions to more HPE NonStop users who
could benefit from our technology." The partnership allows the
Mexican start-up to sell NuWave connectivity solutions such as
LightWave Client and LightWave Server, the company's latest
innovations, which allow NonStop customers to interoperate with
other platforms and applications using REST-based services.
Pay Intelligence, as with NuWave's other partners in the region,
will be able to provide HPE NonStop users in Spanish-speaking
countries first-level support for NuWave products in two languages.
"At Pay Intelligence we are so proud and excited to form this
partnership with NuWave." said Misael Rivero, Pay Intelligence CTO.
"We know we will provide an amazing solution to Latin America
customers, which help them reduce effort, cost and help them
modernize their environments very quickly and easily."
Pay Intelligence's coverage extends from Mexico to Ecuador, and their relationships with NonStop customers run deep. NuWave CEO, Gabrielle Guerrera, added "The people at Pay Intelligence have been a delight to work with so far. They are incredibly competent and have strong relationships with NonStop customers in the region. We look forward to a bright future of, hand-in-hand, providing excellent solutions to the Spanish-speaking NonStop community."
If you would like more information about this partnership or the NuWave products, please email
info@nuwavetech.com.
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Would like to wish the NonStop(tm) Community Festive greetings and a Healthy and Prosperous 2021.
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A Year of Insider Technologies
It has been an extraordinary year for businesses and employees.
Although 2020 has been challenging, employee health and wellbeing
has been our top priority and we’ve been amazed at how well staff
have coped with the ongoing changes in their working regime. We’ve
seamlessly adapted to remote working without any impact on our
ability to support the business and our clients. If anything,
productivity and output has increased!
In 2020, we secured new contracts and helped some of our customers to migrate our NonStop products to NSX. We’ve set ourselves some significant goals in terms of product development over the next 18 months, and will be excited to share these with you in due course.
Product Development and Enhancements
Version 9.5c released.
Incorporates multiple enhancements released over the past few years,
including a simple two-step batch recovery, facilitating swift
recovery during site-swaps.
MultiBatch is utilised by leading UK financial institutions and the
UK central bank, providing workflow solutions for their batch
schedules. In some cases, customers have reduced their overnight
schedules by several hours simply by balancing the parallel running
of their jobs.
MQ Gate
Version 1.2 released, compatible with monitoring MQ 8.
The monitoring of MQ 8 EMS events is still problematic due to the
limited token structure, with the diagnostic information held in
large text buffers. Insider’s MQ Gate solution enables customers to
convert the poorly structured MQ EMS events into unique tokenised
events, for improved monitoring, management and escalation.
Version 4.8g released.
Contains many new features, fixes and enhancements.
Reflex is utilised by leading financial institutions, including the
UK central bank, helping them to monitor their NonStop systems,
events and applications, including payments and securities.
Version 7.5.5 released.
Our payments monitoring solution - RTLX (Real-Time Log eXtract) -
continues to be enhanced.
RTLX is utilised by global payment process providers to provide
superior transaction monitoring.
One of the largest financial institutions in the middle east had its
RTLX environment for their BASE24 systems upgraded early this year.
This financial institution utilises RTLX in order to provide their
customers with instant queries for any transactions over the past 10
years.
New UI Developments
Over the past 18 months, the Reflex user interface has undergone a
radical change.
A presentation with NuWave on how we’re employing LightWave Server™
to modernise the Reflex GUI was shared at VIRU-NUG.
Check it out here.
The conversion of the MultiBatch interfaces into HTML5 is currently
underway.
A presentation on how we’ve approached modernisation using Rocket
LegaSuite was shared at the NonStop Technical Boot Camp.
Check it out here.
NonStop Technical Boot Camp
Insider Technologies was proud to be a Platinum sponsor at the
Connect NonStop Technical Boot Camp 2020.
We showcased, in the Vendor Theatres, the latest development in our
pre-eminent batch scheduler solution –
MultiBatch – demonstrating in real-time the process of
importing and converting the MultiBatch screens into HTML5.
In addition, our Insider attendees were available to offer insights
into aspects of our NonStop and Payments monitoring solutions,
including:
•
Reflex
Service Monitor
o Reflex NonStop systems and performance monitoring can also be used to
monitor your business applications and associated infrastructure
components
•
RTLX
Payments Monitoring
o Real-time monitoring and querying of your payments and transactions
such as that within BASE24 ATM/POS, NCR Authentic
•
New Reflex UI Development
o Developing a new User Interface with assistance of NuWave
LightWave Server™ for reliable, improved client-server connectivity
Happy Holidays!
We’d like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry
Christmas and a happy New Year. Keep your families safe and we look
forward to seeing you in 2021!
Protect Your Software Assets with HPE Shadowbase Software
With HPE Shadowbase software you will:
· Sleep peacefully through the night, avoiding those alarming phone calls that your application or datacenter is down
· Rest easy knowing that with Shadowbase Sizzling-Hot-Takeover (SZT) and Continuous Availability solutions, your application will automatically detect a failure and failover to your backup
· Relieve yourself of anxiety: no need to wake up in the middle of the night just to “check on things”
HPE Shadowbase software provides:
· Automatic failover detection and recovery with Shadowbase Active/Almost-Active and fully Active/Active architectures
· Validate data consistency with Shadowbase Compare and repair inconsistencies with Shadowbase Repair
· Restore corrupted databases with Shadowbase UNDO-REDO
Use HPE Shadowbase Data and Application Integration to:
· Build real-time event-driven applications for competitive advantage
· Discover meaningful patterns in your data to rapidly build new value-add services
· Conquer Master Data Management (MDM)
Gravic Wishes You a Joyous Holiday
Season and a Happy New Year!
Gravic and Shadowbase Support are Available During the Pandemic
We are concerned for all of our friends in the HPE and Connect communities and pray that they remain safe through this unprecedented and dangerous situation! For the duration of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Gravic and its Shadowbase Products Group are open and operating with remote support and access. To reach Shadowbase Support, please use your normal Support contact information or use Support. Please use Contact Us for all other inquiries.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise globally sells and supports Shadowbase solutions under the name HPE Shadowbase. For more information, please contact your local HPE Shadowbase representative or visit our website. For additional information, please view our Shadowbase solution videos: https://vimeo.com/shadowbasesoftware.
Specifications subject to change without notice. Trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Copyright 2020.
A SOLD-OUT SUCCESS!
I’m sure you’ve heard we had a NonStop All Digital Experience TBC last month, with over 2000 attendees in five different time zones, representing 72 different countries and 43 of the United States. It was an outstanding representation of the worldwide NonStop Community!
When the NonStop Event Planning Team began meeting in February, there was no anticipation that this year’s TBC would involve shaking and stirring how the Event would unfold. We had the usual negotiation about classrooms and the Partner Pavilion. This year we had to discuss where to hold meals because our contracted space at the Hyatt was different vs. last year. We painstakingly looked at the layout map to determine entrances/exits and how to utilize the space we were given. We kept in mind how to utilize our space for the Pre-conference seminars, NonStop U40 group, Women in Technology group, Hackathon organizers, HPE Customer Council, and even the possibility of holding the Partner Symposium at the facility.
In March, word came that GTUG had to postpone the ETBC from May to September due to COVID-19. Lockdowns were being enacted across the globe and many of our usual contacts were suddenly unavailable – including hotel meeting planners. Companies enacted no-travel dictates and all local RUGs were cancelled. Since the TBC was scheduled for November, we plugged on in anticipation of the event and how to implement ‘social and physical distancing’ but started researching the possibilities of holding virtual Events.
April brought the announcement that HPE Discover would not be held in Las Vegas in June but would be completely virtual. We began contingency planning for the TBC in earnest, not just in thought. Hotel meeting planners were still unavailable to discuss the situation, and fees come into play when Event space is cancelled, so we again had to vaguely plan an event that could be both onsite and onscreen.
Connect quickly implemented a solution in May for virtual RUGs in the US, and Virtu-NUG was broadcast in June/July. Suddenly, presenters became broadcast announcers! Our TBC planning was still in a state of ambiguity as businesses began opening and hotels didn’t want to lose autumn revenue.
In July/Aug, the NonStop Event Planning Team made the switch to move forward with a Virtual TBC, not underestimating the amount of planning, preparation, communication, and effort it would take to make the event happen. Presentations, schedules, announcements – everything had to be completed earlier than an onsite event timeline. GTUG had to cancel the ETBC and the idea of multiple tracks/time zones was born!
Sessions were run thru Whova on both mobile devices and desktop per running schedule. Once run, any session was available to watch at your convenience! That was a nice feature and I encourage you to take a look at all the sessions. I especially liked Werner’s opening and closing remarks in the European track. Very real-life commentary!
Registered attendees can continue to watch sessions on Whova for one year. Others can watch the TBC videos on their desktops thru the On Demand Library for the next 6 months:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/7776942
or
Go to nonstoptbc.com and click on Sessions and Speakers.
The On Demand library is the third choice down.
It was nice to see so many people participate who may not have experienced a NonStop Technical Boot Camp in person! Thru Whova we were able to connect with people in Community chats and private Chats. We know that many attendees were able to participate and catch up with friends they haven’t had contact with for a while.
Some attendees participated from home, some alone in their offices, and some set up Whova to be projected in their conference rooms allowing many people to attend in their business environment. What a great idea!
Many thanks to Connect, Karen Copeland and the NonStop Planning Team! Many thanks to TBC2020 presenters!
Many thanks to our TBC2020 Exhibitors!:
4Tech Software Abat +
ACI Ascert
BlackWood Systems comForte
Crystal Point CSP
ESQ ETI-NET
Gravic HPE NED
Idelji Insider Technologies
IR Lusis Payments
Network Technologies NuWave
Odyssey Information OmniPayments
Overlord QSA
TANDsoft TCM
TIC Software Tributary Systems
XYPRO NonStop Academy Education Day
We’ve had a lot of good feedback to begin planning for our event in 2021.
Have a Healthy Holiday Season, stay safe and we look forward to seeing you in Denver, at a local RUG or online next year!
Kathy Wood
NonStop Vendor Chair/Partner SIG
Why did Synchrony choose OmniPayments?
The answer to this question deserves a good section of its own and I will return to that subject below while you allow me a small digression as to what is going in the European landscape right now. Consider your own shopping psyche. Each time you go shopping for something, food for the family, presents for Christmas, or even lockdown treats for yourself, my guess is you put a lot more thought into what you’re buying, whether it’s exactly the right thing or close enough, how quickly it can be delivered to you, whether you’re going to be home to receive the delivery etc etc. Just about the last thing you may think about it which payment you’re going to use to pay for it. If you haven’t yet sorted out your favourite payment card or how to use your phone to pay, then chances are you’re probably either paying with cash for everything or dare I say not really keeping up with the contactless revolution. I mean we have POS schemes for pay-later, we have mobile wallets to pay with, we have debit and credit cards to pay with, we have digital banking apps that will update all your spending categories as you actually spend it.
Not to be outdone however the europeans payment gurus continue to figure out a way to prevent themselves from being left behind. Having seen the Chinese build their own UnionPay card brand, the Russians build their own Mir brand, the belief is that the European landscape needs its own payment brand to serve europeans in their own market. They have plans to build both a mobile wallet for digital payments, and also build an account-based immediate payments mechanism, akin to the direct-from-account iDeal system in the Netherlands.
This is one big hill to climb. They’ll need to persuade a lot of the national debit card schemes that their already low-cost systems are worth replacing. It’s interesting to watch innovation take place at a European level; it reminds me of the proverbial local council meetings desperately trying to design a horse and ending up with a camel.
In the meantime, there will be other more innovative organisations that build something from nothing, meeting a need in the market where none saw it before. We only have to look back over the last 10 years or so to reflect on the visionary companies that have built something truly innovative and now without which we could not imagine our modern world.
It is these visionary companies that OmniPayments continues to partner with, to help them launch quickly, to help them get their idea to market, and earn a rapid return on their investment.
We continue to see that that getting to market quickly is not necessarily best done with the large providers; they have a tendency to have their own agendas and lock up their customers in long overbearing projects. Focussed niche organisations on the other hand tend to be razor-sharp and keen to get the project finished for the client.
OmniPayments does not make light of this fact. Organisations that need projects done quickly continue to turn to us as a company that can deliver almost as fast as Amazon Logistics.
It was with exactly this in mind, that Synchrony and OmniPayments decided to partner together. Synchrony operates one of the most comprehensive private label card offerings for business in the United States. Synchrony needed to digitally transform their payments engine into an e-commerce engine so they could process a broader transaction set for their card customers, and they needed to embrace the power of JSON and XML messages without changing a single line of code in their existing operational platform. Only OmniPayments could deliver this to them.
Let’s remind ourselves of the true OmniPayments Digital Payments Platform benefits:
• Rapid Project Delivery
• e-commerce enablement
• Mobile Wallet
• Rapid Cloud-based launch
• Rapid return on investment
• Flexible configuration
• Rock-solid reliability
OmniPayments helps payments institutions who need to integrate their payment methods and channels, issue card products both virtual and real, or who acquire payment transactions from a broad choice of consumer payment tokens, or who want to expand payment choices for their clients. We provide opportunities to streamline payment technology and improve bottom-line profitability.
Our Customers today run profitable businesses of their own, and continue to improve their profit margins with Return on Investment figures of only a few months.
Whether you want to issue emergency payment vouchers, issue payment tokens to mobiles, process QR code payments, accept traditional card payments, consider our rapid private cloud-based solution to get you up and running in weeks.
Follow OmniPayments on Twitter at @omnipayments, visit our website at www.omnipayments.com, or email us at sales@omnipayments.com
Virtual TBC 2020 - A Resounding Success!
On November 16-18 this year, HPE NonStop users from around the world gathered, not in San Francisco or San Jose, as we have done in the past, but around our laptops and Whova. It was a very different NonStop Technical Boot Camp (TBC) this year, but a great success nonetheless, with a record number of attendees!
Some of the highlights for us were the hardware product updates from Mark Pollans, complete with the traditional "ooh"s and "aah"s, admittedly this time provided by Mark himself. The customer testimonials from Dell and Euroclear covering their vNonStop experiences were informative and exciting, as were the other product updates from the hardworking HPE staff.
Closer to our own wheelhouse, we were joined by Gustavo Martinez from RedLink, who presented in fascinating detail how RedLink have implemented a reusable REST client framework for BASE24 using NuWave LightWave ClientTM. You can go straight to Gustavo's excellent BASE24 integration presentation on the NuWave YouTube channel.
All in, 2000 people signed up for TBC this year, more than double the highest number of attendees at the traditional face-to-face TBC sessions of the past. Whatever happens with face-to-face gatherings, we suspect that future TBCs will have some sort of virtual component for many years to come.
One of the best aspects of the virtual event was that all sessions are now available to replay on demand, meaning if you couldn't attend, or missed a session due to a clash in your schedule, you can view it any time you like. All of the sessions are available at the dedicated TBC Vimeo channel.
Since we were missing all of your lovely faces, this year NuWave sponsored the photo contest, where attendees voted on their favorite photo from a large number of submissions via the Whova event app. The photo with the most likes, and the winner of this competition was Gustavo Martinez, with a photo of him and XYPRO's Gabriel Alvarez:
Congratulations to Gustavo and to all the competition winners this year. We enjoyed seeing all of the photo submissions!
So while TBC was quite different this year, it was a great success nonetheless. Congratulations to HPE, Connect, and all vendors and customers for making it such a great show. We are very much looking forward to TBC 2021 in Denver, and hope to see all of our HPE NonStop friends in person sometime soon!
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