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Accelerating Payment Processing Solutions at the Digital Edge: A Case Study on Conductor and Equinix
Technology Category
- Networks & Connectivity - NFC
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Cement
- Retail
Applicable Functions
- Procurement
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Construction Management
- Infrastructure Inspection
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Conductor, a Brazilian company specializing in payment method solutions and processing, faced a significant challenge in raising the availability of its environment with a reduced staff. The company had previously migrated from its in-house operation to Equinix colocation environments in São Paulo International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers. However, two years later, the company was struggling to maintain high availability with a smaller team. The challenge was to find a solution that would allow Conductor to continue to grow and innovate its payment processing solutions while maintaining high availability and performance.
The Customer
Conductor
About The Customer
Conductor is a tech company specializing in electronic payment method solutions and processing services. Established 20 years ago as a brand and private label credit card processor, Conductor now has a complete ecosystem covering a wide range of activities within the purchase and payment chain, including retail, banking, financial institutions, financial technology, benefits and agreements. The company developed a groundbreaking business model, featuring products, services and solutions that work together, as well as a proprietary platform known in the market for its flexibility and agility. Conductor currently leads the Brazilian electronic payment processing market, growing approximately 40% per annum since 2012.
The Solution
To address this challenge, Conductor collaborated with Equinix to create a solution that would allow the company to continue to grow and innovate its payment processing solutions. Equinix completely redesigned the environment and started managing the production environment at SP1 and the contingency environment at SP2. This allowed Conductor’s team to focus on the core business. Conductor has two payment method platforms: Conductor, its main payment platform, which is a hybrid between Equinix and Microsoft Azure, and MarketPay, a platform hosted at AWS. Both platforms use Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric™ (ECX Fabric™) to directly, securely and dynamically connect to Microsoft Azure and AWS, with customized connectivity through a self-service portal or API. The company’s development and homologation operations also use ECX Fabric to create connections to Microsoft Azure.
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