Postilion's High Availability Payments Platform Goes Live At The Foschini Group
Postilion, a leading provider of software solutions for self-service banking and payments and a division of S1 Corporation, recently announced that eCentric Switch, a leading South African transaction processing company, has taken The Foschini Group live on a Postilion active/active high-availability payments platform.
The Foschini Group consists of 13 trading divisions dealing in lifestyle products ranging from fashion, jewelry, accessories, and cosmetics, to outdoor apparel, sporting equipment, and homeware. The Group trades in over 1,200 stores with more than 5,500 points of sale, making it South Africa's foremost specialty retailer. Their trading brands include Foschini, donna-claire, Fashion Express, Luella, Markham, Exact!, Sportscene, TotalSports, DueSouth, AmericanSwiss, Sterns, Matrix, and at home.
The Group needed a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective retail payments platform that could be integrated with their Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) terminals and provide value-added service capability. Such a solution would ideally support their business objectives of operational excellence, cost reduction, and profitable growth. This payments solution also had to meet the requirements for an EMV-compliant card payments system, as well as the criteria laid out by the PCI DSS standard. eCentric Switch proposed the active/active, high-availability Postilion solution for retailers, to which The Foschini Group agreed.
The Postilion architecture deployed for The Foschini Group aims to achieve as close to 100% uptime as possible, ensuring that any single point of failure in the system would have minimal impact on the Group's customers at the checkout points.
"More and more of our customers use cards as their payments instrument of choice. Thanks to the Postilion implementation, The Group is now able to offer faster and more accurate service at the checkout. Our store staff is very impressed with the ease of use and speed of the new system, and our finance department is able to reconcile transactions faster, which provides us with important financial benefits. Additional value-added services can also be made relatively seamlessly, supporting our future growth plans," says Brent Curry, Director, The Foschini Group I.T Director.
"The Foschini Group's management has expressed their delight with how exceptionally well the teams from The Group, eCentric Switch, and Postilion have worked together to implement this project. There is great satisfaction with how successfully the implementation has been rolled out in such a short span of time," comments Rob de Vries, Director, eCentric Switch.
"We are pleased to have worked closely with eCentric Switch in taking one of South Africa's foremost retailers live on Postilion. Postilion has assisted with Foschini's compliancy needs, while ensuring they have a payments environment that can maximize uptime for the Group's various trading divisions," commented Deon van Biljon, SVP and General Manager, Postilion Africa.
About Foschini Group
The Foschini Group consists of 13 trading divisions dealing in lifestyle products ranging from fashion, jewelry, accessories, and cosmetics, to outdoor apparel, sporting equipment, and homeware. The Group trades in over 1,200 stores with more than 5,500 points of sale, making it South Africa's foremost specialty retailer. Their trading brands include Foschini, donna-claire, Fashion Express, Luella, Markham, Exact!, Sportscene, TotalSports, DueSouth, AmericanSwiss, Sterns, Matrix, and at home.
About Postilion
Postilion, a division of S1 Corporation, is a leading provider of integrated solutions for self-service banking and payment processing. Our offices, on five continents, serve over 1,500 customers in more than 50 countries. Postilion solutions drive self-service financial transactions and payments, including advanced transactions such as prepay, through Internet access points, ATMs, POS terminals, and phones.
More than 100,000 ATMs and 500,000 POS terminals worldwide run on Postilion solutions. In the United States, over 1,250 credit unions and community financial institutions use Postilion solutions. Built on open systems, Postilion solutions provide consolidated management information, card management, 3DES and EMV enablement, and loyalty management. At the forefront of compliance with new regulations and security enhancements, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Visa's Payment Application Best Practices (PABP), Postilion can help customers achieve compliance with the latest data security standards developed by the payment card industry. More information is available at www.postilion.com.
About S1 Corporation
S1 Corporation delivers customer interaction software for financial and payment services and offers unique solution sets for financial institutions, retailers, and processors under three brand names: Postilion, S1 Enterprise and FSB Solutions. For more information, visit www.s1.com, www.postilion.com, www.S1enterprise.com, and www.fsb-solutions.com.
SOURCE: Postilion