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Is it time for ISO 20022 ATM Driving? Is it time to abandon ATM Driving all together?
Is it time for ISO 20022 ATM Driving? Is it time to abandon ATM Driving all together?

Is it time for ISO 20022 ATM Driving? Is it time to abandon ATM Driving all together?

Could an ISO 20022 web-services based ATM Terminal Handler/Driver reduce costs and accelerate innovation by consolidating applications, connections and platforms. Would bankers, ATM vendors and bank application providers get on board with such a strategy? Do we still need ATM drivers in an IOT world? One idea to help banks remain PCI compliant, maintain legacy connections but become more innovative and extensible with their ATM strategy in an open banking world.

Why and How we went from SaaS to Cloud, Services to APIs – It’s just Business!
Why and How we went from SaaS to Cloud, Services to APIs – It’s just Business!

Why and How we went from SaaS to Cloud, Services to APIs – It’s just Business!

Just how does Amazon or Google scale to such a huge number of transactions or inquiries? How are these companies able to afford to serve so many customers every day, with new services, nonstop again and again? The economics behind…

Microservices and other shifts in techspeak
Microservices and other shifts in techspeak

Microservices and other shifts in techspeak

Over the past 30 years selling technology solutions, the raw materials of the products I sell have changed many times. Shifts from centralized to decentralized processing and data models, optimization for the hardware we were operating on, business trends swinging…