Customer Story: BPay Group
A world of difference for BPAY Group.
Customer
BSA
Industry
Banking
Solutions
Managed Launch Private Cloud Services
Managed Azure Services
The Challenge
Strategic transformation doesn’t have to be disruptive.
As a key enabler of the Australian economy, BPAY Group processes over $400 billion in online payments each year and constantly invests in its platforms to deliver trusted and innovative services. As their internal data centres were approaching the end of usability, taking the leap into the cloud was the obvious step, and there were three primary concerns.
Capacity.
Launching the new service Osko –a peer-to-peer payment product that allows anyone to instantly and securely move funds between banks – was planned to more than double BPAY Group’s transaction load.
Sustainability.
The potential to reduce inefficiencies, use of ageing data centres and BPAY Group’s overall energy consumption.
Security
As a brand, BPAY has 98% name recognition and strong consumer trust, so data integrity and security were not optional for BPAY Payments.
Capacity
Launching the new service Osko –a peer-to-peer payment product that allows anyone to instantly and securely move funds between banks – was planned to more than double BPAY Group’s transaction load
Sustainability
The potential to reduce inefficiencies, use of ageing data centres and BPAY Group’s overall energy consumption.
“BPAY Group has achieved a substantial reduction in our
energy costs in three years from 2017 to 2020. Choosing to
partner with Macquarie Cloud Services, migrating to
private cloud and co-location services, has helped us to
achieve such a large reduction.”
Angela Donohoe
CIO, BPAY Group
The Solution
A customised hybrid cloud platform for resilience and growth.
A Proof of Concept gave BPAY Group the reassurance that migration to the cloud would improve security, capacity and resilience, and ease their burden by Macquarie Cloud Serices taking on day-to-day infrastructure management. International and local research consistently confirmed the benefits of cloud storage confident conversations with BPAY Group’s Financial Institution customer base ensuring support for the shift. BPAY Group partnered with Macquarie Cloud Services to implement a customised hybrid private and public solution.
Launch® Private Cloud delivered secure, high-performance hosting for critical payment workloads.
Key Results
On-time delivery, flexibility and capability uplift.
“Make A Difference” is a personal mantra of John Banfield, BPAY Group CEO. Moving to Macquarie Cloud Services made a difference in many ways. Changing data storage to hybrid private and public cloud “has enabled agility” and enhanced customer value. BPAY Group are continually optimizing their existing services and creating new services to meet changing customer needs. Now BPAY Group have the potential to significantly grow both capacity and revenue “Macquarie Cloud Services get that,” says John Banfield.
Our custom solution created energy savings (under-used servers are a key culprit in excess energy consumption) and by moving their servers into the Macquarie Data Centres, among other initiatives, BPAY Group has been able to reduce energy costs and its carbon footprint. BPAY Group have protected the future. By endorsing a more efficient alternative, BPAY Group has saved costs and reduced impacts on the environment. It’s a difference worth making.
Greater agility
Hybrid cloud has enabled faster optimisation and innovation across services.
Capacity growth
Infrastructure supports well over 4 million transactions per day.
Improved resilience
Uplifted business continuity ensures customer confidence and always-on performance.
Reduced infrastructure burden
Macquarie Cloud Services took on day-to-day management and operational complexity.
Energy cost reduction
BPAY achieved a substantial reduction in energy costs between 2017 and 2020.
Lower carbon footprint
More efficient infrastructure reduced environmental impact.
Technical Solution Overview
Multi-cloud architecture supporting transformation.
- Full migration to Secure Hybrid Data Centres over 36-months, in 2 phases.
- New purpose-built infrastructure delivering performance, automation and availability improvements.
- Cost efficiencies gained including reduced reinvestment in aging server and network infrastructure.
- Implementation of high-level security options and enough capacity to process well over 4 million transactions a day.
- Uplifted business continuity capability, enabling service resilience and ensuring customer confidence that BPAY Group’s services will always ‘just work’.
How Macquarie Cloud Services helped BPAY make a difference.
As a key enabler for the Australian economy read BPAY’s 3 primary concerns for their move to the cloud.
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