What is PRISM?
Veneka’s PRISM service is a fully managed payments software-as-a-service offering, built on Tieto Card Suite and Veneka’s Luminus and Indigo software. PRISM provides sophisticated access to world class technologies. It enables our customers to rollout innovative payments services with quick timeto-market, superior performance, at a low cost.
Solutions Offered
PRISM provides a wide range of payments capabilities that create competitive and sustainable models for financial institutions, processors, mobile money operators and payments services providers.
PRISM Solutions Include:
- Card issuing and management – Instant and Centralized issuing of Debit, Credit, Prepaid and Loyalty products.
- Mobile financial services – Mobile wallets, mobile payments and cross platform interoperability
- Agency banking – Full service branchless banking at low cost.
- Payments processing – A range of solutions for money transfers, remittances, bill payments, prepaid, and bulk disbursements between individuals and businesses.
- Channel Banking – Device driving and management for POS, ATMs, Kiosks, Self Service terminals and Internet-enabled devices.
- Transaction switching and processing – Local and international switching and settlement of card, mobile money and account transactions
Key Benefits
Highly profitable payments platform: PRISM provides electronic banking solutions without the cost of on-site deployment and licencing. Software access fees are competitively priced and calculated based on usage. In-built functionality in the software enables customer to build compelling models to maximise revenue generation.
Access To Powerful and Current Technologies
Veneka offers market leading and best of breed technologies hosted on the PRISM platform. The integrated technologies receive the latest updates and enhancements. Customers can access new functionality and innovations as they are implemented. Use the software as your own Veneka’s unique model on PRISM means that the customer has full ownership of their business processes, data and operational requirements. The software is accessible as if it was deployed locally.
Quick Time to Market
PRISM customers enjoy the benefit of rapid deployment of new products and functionality. The flexible architecture, enabled by hosted applications and infrastructure allow Veneka to set up a unique instance for each customer using configuration scripts and customer specific parameters.
Reduced IT Cost
Veneka has a dedicated PRISM implementation and support team ensure availability to the platform. Customers do not have to invest in hardware and upgrades, IT personnel and training. Veneka’s support team ensure the full management of the application and platform.
Technology & Management
The PRISM platform is deployed on a high-availability Oracle super-cluster environment, provided by Veneka’s hosting partner, Britehouse, a division of Dimension Data. The environments are deployed in Tier 4 data centres, offering redundant power and data connections, with a platform uptime of over 99.95%.
Connectivity
Veneka’s connectivity partners provide extensive redundant data networks across the continent, with dedicated bandwidth on all major backbones. This enables financial institutions to connect to Veneka’s PRISM platform via low-latency connections.
Compliance and Security
The PRISM platform is built in compliance with industry standards for PCI-DSS. Management of the Data Centres hosting the PRISM software applications is in accordance to Tier 3 standard for Data Centres. Veneka has supported customers using our technology to successfully achieve PCI-DSS compliance.