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This cloud focus provides scalability to handle increasing demand , multi-region resiliency and backup capabilities , robust cybersecurity measures and enhanced business intelligence .
“ PRESTO ’ s open-loop payments credit , debit and virtual card in Google and Apple Wallet work on an account-based platform that is Azure cloud native . Our data and analytics platform and tooling are all based on the Azure platform and tooling .”
The power and flexibility of the cloud has been instrumental in driving Metrolinx ’ s payments transformation . “ The adoption of public cloud has enabled us to deploy our new set of products and services rapidly , focus on creating new customer experiences and develop new platform-level capabilities ,” Steve says . “ Instead of a custom on-prem infrastructure build-out , the public cloud provides scale-out to meet increasing demand , multi-region resiliency , back-up and storage , advanced cybersecurity and enhanced business intelligence .
“ It further enables PRESTO to move at a faster speed and greater agility by leveraging the continuously evolving capabilities and maturing of the underlying cloud platform and the new tools becoming available on Azure .”
Partners powering payments innovation Metrolinx has cultivated a robust partner ecosystem critical to developing and delivering innovative transit payment solutions . Key relationships span 11 transit agency partners like TTC and
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