Looking around the many social media channels on offer
today and checking out what our peers are saying, when it comes to NonStop
there is considerably impetus developing behind NonStop X. These are the Intel
chip-based systems from the HPE NonStop team and support the Intel X
architecture. On the other hand, when it comes to OmniPayments, there is so
much going on today at the company that perhaps where we are headed isn’t all
that clear.
First up, and something
OmniPayments CEO Yash Kapadia constantly reminds me of, is that OmniPayments is
customer-driven. OmniPayments is not beholden to a group of faceless
shareholders as may be the case with other payments solutions providers, but
rather as a private company, it really is beholden to its customers. Yash has
been in the software solutions business far too long to simply latch on to the
latest and greatest ghee-whiz gadget or neat programming trick, he carefully
tracks both the industry and a select number of his key customers. That isn’t
to say OmniPayments doesn’t have a roadmap or that it doesn’t pay attention to
industry mandates and directives, but rather, it has a lot more to do with
timing. Too far out in front and your company will die, Yash once told me and
yet, too far behind and very soon you won’t have a company to worry about.
Once you understand this basic premise, and realize that this is the first objective of OmniPayments, what comes next is completely understandable. OmniPayments pays close attention to the hardware and software product roadmaps of NonStop development but is highly selective about what finds its way into the OmniPayments product suite and what doesn’t. This is a very important consideration and for one very important reason – as much as OmniPayments is customer-driven it is also extremely cost conscious. Value pricing is the way Yash describes it and there really is only one product – you may have options and elect not to turn on some features, but most important of all, when deploying OmniPayments for the first time there is no reason to step away from OmniPayments and turn to other vendors in order to have a fully-functioning payments solution. It is all there in the product from day one – you want a monitoring tool or need to implement data replication or perhaps even a transaction pre-authorization / authentication feature? Yes, it’s all there today!
Delving more deeply into the product, OmniPayments was not only one of the first to jump into the NonStop X product bandwagon but elected to deploy NonStop X systems for internal use as well. Not only that, but OmniPayments jumped on an opportunity to become a HPE VAR in support of HPE NonStop products for all of South America. This is a first for the NonStop community as best as I can tell since HPE acquired NonStop. The result is that the OmniPayments team can now build an appropriate configuration of NonStop X systems, load all the payments solutions software, test / validate and then crate up for shipment directly to the customer. This is something I view as a truly out of the box (or, should I say, off of the crate) delivery! But there is a lot more to this story than simple packaging and delivery.
The final thing to realize about OmniPayments is that it is a visionary company. Often overlooked in the busy world of setting up payments switches, supporting networks of ATMs and POSs as well as adding comprehensive support for today’s digital community comprising everything from laptops to tablets and smartphones, OmniPayments can come to you or you can elect to go to OmniPayments. Yes, in its most recent stretch to stay much attuned to the needs of its customers both small and big, among those NonStop X systems that OmniPayments purchased were a number roped off and set aside to run OmniCloudX. With NonStop X systems in three locations and networked in support of each other to provide OmniPayments on the basis of SaaS, OmniPayments has built the first commercial cloud operation based on NonStop – and it already has customers.
Thought of initially as a back-up to programs where OmniPayments is installing its payments solutions for the first time and where critical PoCs and Pilot Deployments are involved, OmniCloudX is now addressing those all-important SMB markets where with NonStop on-premise NonStop skillsets are a rarity. Furthermore, it isn’t just SMBs who have been attracted to this style of operations as just recently, one of the largest bricks-and-mortar retailer has come to understand that it really isn’t in the IT business and is transitioning to running the POS and card infrastructure on OmniCloudX. Listening to the customer often has unintended consequences, but even here, OmniPayments has proved adept at responding.
OmniPayments has listened to its customers, followed its primary vendor HPE, embraced NonStop X, become a NonStop VAR and launched the first cloud offering based on NonStop X systems and yet, the story doesn’t stop there. The key to understanding NonStop X lies not with the hardware but with the operating system – what HPE calls the L-Series operating system. In supporting L-Series OmniPayments has not only been able to leverage NonStop X but is positioning itself to support virtualized NonStop (vNonStop). Expected to become available in March, 2018, OmniPayments (under the careful watch of the NonStop development team) has already begun validating its capabilities when configured as just another virtualized workload.
So when OmniPayments is asked by its customers where is it headed then in all honesty, Yash can happily respond into the clouds and well, beyond! And if this is all coming as news to you then if you are part of the NonStop community keep an eye out for Yash and his marketing team as they have a full slate of NonStop regional events they will be attending so you will be hard pressed to miss them. And remember, whoever you are, as a prospect, you are every bit as important as a customer and as you now know, OmniPayments will put your requirements first!
(Re-posted from the February 23, 2018, post to the LinkedIn blog, Pulse)
Once you understand this basic premise, and realize that this is the first objective of OmniPayments, what comes next is completely understandable. OmniPayments pays close attention to the hardware and software product roadmaps of NonStop development but is highly selective about what finds its way into the OmniPayments product suite and what doesn’t. This is a very important consideration and for one very important reason – as much as OmniPayments is customer-driven it is also extremely cost conscious. Value pricing is the way Yash describes it and there really is only one product – you may have options and elect not to turn on some features, but most important of all, when deploying OmniPayments for the first time there is no reason to step away from OmniPayments and turn to other vendors in order to have a fully-functioning payments solution. It is all there in the product from day one – you want a monitoring tool or need to implement data replication or perhaps even a transaction pre-authorization / authentication feature? Yes, it’s all there today!
Delving more deeply into the product, OmniPayments was not only one of the first to jump into the NonStop X product bandwagon but elected to deploy NonStop X systems for internal use as well. Not only that, but OmniPayments jumped on an opportunity to become a HPE VAR in support of HPE NonStop products for all of South America. This is a first for the NonStop community as best as I can tell since HPE acquired NonStop. The result is that the OmniPayments team can now build an appropriate configuration of NonStop X systems, load all the payments solutions software, test / validate and then crate up for shipment directly to the customer. This is something I view as a truly out of the box (or, should I say, off of the crate) delivery! But there is a lot more to this story than simple packaging and delivery.
The final thing to realize about OmniPayments is that it is a visionary company. Often overlooked in the busy world of setting up payments switches, supporting networks of ATMs and POSs as well as adding comprehensive support for today’s digital community comprising everything from laptops to tablets and smartphones, OmniPayments can come to you or you can elect to go to OmniPayments. Yes, in its most recent stretch to stay much attuned to the needs of its customers both small and big, among those NonStop X systems that OmniPayments purchased were a number roped off and set aside to run OmniCloudX. With NonStop X systems in three locations and networked in support of each other to provide OmniPayments on the basis of SaaS, OmniPayments has built the first commercial cloud operation based on NonStop – and it already has customers.
Thought of initially as a back-up to programs where OmniPayments is installing its payments solutions for the first time and where critical PoCs and Pilot Deployments are involved, OmniCloudX is now addressing those all-important SMB markets where with NonStop on-premise NonStop skillsets are a rarity. Furthermore, it isn’t just SMBs who have been attracted to this style of operations as just recently, one of the largest bricks-and-mortar retailer has come to understand that it really isn’t in the IT business and is transitioning to running the POS and card infrastructure on OmniCloudX. Listening to the customer often has unintended consequences, but even here, OmniPayments has proved adept at responding.
OmniPayments has listened to its customers, followed its primary vendor HPE, embraced NonStop X, become a NonStop VAR and launched the first cloud offering based on NonStop X systems and yet, the story doesn’t stop there. The key to understanding NonStop X lies not with the hardware but with the operating system – what HPE calls the L-Series operating system. In supporting L-Series OmniPayments has not only been able to leverage NonStop X but is positioning itself to support virtualized NonStop (vNonStop). Expected to become available in March, 2018, OmniPayments (under the careful watch of the NonStop development team) has already begun validating its capabilities when configured as just another virtualized workload.
So when OmniPayments is asked by its customers where is it headed then in all honesty, Yash can happily respond into the clouds and well, beyond! And if this is all coming as news to you then if you are part of the NonStop community keep an eye out for Yash and his marketing team as they have a full slate of NonStop regional events they will be attending so you will be hard pressed to miss them. And remember, whoever you are, as a prospect, you are every bit as important as a customer and as you now know, OmniPayments will put your requirements first!
(Re-posted from the February 23, 2018, post to the LinkedIn blog, Pulse)
To your point Richard, the real visionary step we're taking is the off-prem Cloud solution whereby we offer plug-in payments as a service. This is already broadening our appeal in the market where clients are focussed pirely on the value they derive from the payments service. Where is comes from, they actually are less concerned about. How it's maintained and kept up to date? That's one less head-ache for clients today
ReplyDeleteWith respect to "where clients are focused purely on the value they derive from the payments service. Where it comes from, they actually are less concerned about" I agree wholeheartedly and it matters little the size of the financial institution. Tier 3 and even tier 2 will likely gravitate to off-premise support including clouds even as Tier 1 may turn to off-prem for development, testing and even pilot programs. Fintechs may think clouds are their differentiater but the big banks are beginning to see the light and fully understand the benefits particularly as they head into BI and even AI where it's all about the data and nowhere is it better to store the data than off-prem!
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