Several customers recently approached us looking for solutions to their remote data access/connection requirements. HPE Shadowbase software uses a data replication/data integration architecture to meet these needs, and has experience successfully deploying these solutions at a number of customer sites. The following HPE Shadowbase architectures are popular and have significant advantages over alternative architectures.

• HPE Shadowbase software replicates the customer’s Enscribe data on-platform into an SQL/MP or an SQL/MX database. Remote applications can then use, for example, ODBC/MX and JDBC, to access the NonStop-based SQL data. This architecture most closely matches several customers’ original remote data access/connection product approaches.

• HPE Shadowbase software replicates the customer’s Enscribe, SQL/MP, and/or SQL/MX data off-platform to another platform/database, e.g., to Linux/Oracle or Windows/SQL Server, and then the customer’s applications access the data locally through ODBC or JDBC interfaces.

Implementing these Shadowbase solutions is also very straight-forward, regardless if the data is being replicated NonStop/NonStop, NonStop/some other platform, or other configurations. Shadowbase software has powerful utilities to aid in the data format/schema conversions, for data cleansing, transformation, and filtering.

Venmo has announced its Visa-powered credit card released in conjunction with Synchrony, an OmniPayments user, making the Venmo Credit Card available for all eligible Venmo customers to apply from the Venmo app.

Venmo’s first-ever credit card officially launched in October 2020 to select customers, and now the company expanded its availability to allow more of Venmo’s community of customers to apply for the no annual fee cash back card. The Venmo Credit Card can be used everywhere Visa credit cards are accepted, giving the opportunity to make purchases at millions of retailers worldwide in-store and online.

The Venmo Credit Card comes equipped with a personal Venmo QR code printed on the front. The QR code can be scanned with the mobile device to seamlessly activate the card once it arrives, or scanned by friends in the Venmo app so they can send a payment or split a purchase with ease.   Synchrony’s card activation costs are

significantly reduced by enabling QR-code activation.

It is offering the Venmo community a dynamic rewards experience maximizing opportunities to earn cashback. Cash back is automatically added to a customer’s account with Venmo, giving them the freedom to choose how to use the funds.

Venmo, founded in 2009, is now part of PayPal, a company which has experienced significant growth throughout the pandemic.

 OmniPayments helps to underpin the Synchrony infrastructure, streamlining their ability to launch new card products with their business partners.  Synchrony operates one of the most comprehensive private label and scheme-based card programs in north America. With its Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), OmniPayments makes it especially easy to integrate with existing infrastructure.

Let’s remind ourselves of the true OmniPayments Digital Payments Platform benefits:

 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.

Privileged accounts hold the keys to the most critical data on your HPE NonStop servers. They can take action with the highest privileges on the most sensitive areas of your system. PCI DSS requires that all actions taken by any user with administrative privileges must be tracked.

Presented by XYPRO Senior Solutions Architect and Connect User Group Past President, Rob Lesan. This webinar will cover it all!  

If your HPE NonStop servers handle PCI data, you need to keystroke log privileged users!  Period.  You must implement automated audit trails for all system components in order to reconstruct the following events:

Keystroke logging is the most effective method to meet this requirement.

XYGATE captures keystrokes from Guardian (TACL), OSS (ksh, bash, etc.), via telnet (hopefully over TLS!), ssh or any other method. XYGATE keystroke logging operates with or without Safeguard and differentiates between a user and an alias for both reporting and control.

Keystroke logs combined with a SIEM or Security Intelligence technology, go beyond compliance to realtime detection and prevention of data breaches.

Compliance requirements, zero overhead, extensible reporting and the ability to record actions from all users via XYGATE is the ideal solution to meet this very necessary security requirement.

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.