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Vernon Crabtree

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Natural language processing is the next step to automation

Agility comes from people, not from a technology. Treat your people with respect and you can change the systems as fast as you like - even if it is legacy infrastructure. While "cloud" is a hot topic, the "cloud" experts will be treated as the new "stars". They are respected and well organised. Meanwhile, the "legacy" people are outsourced to the lowest bidder and managed on "cost" instead of value. People first!

14 Jan 2020 Reply Read article

ACI Worldwide collaborates with Solutions by Text for SMS payments

I proposed bill payments by SMS 20 years ago. I was told that SMS was not secure.

20 Mar 2019 Reply Read article

Are payment cards under threat?

The account holder will always need to be authenticated. And we will always want to be able to share our card with the kids (even though the PIN is supposed to be "personal"). Furthermore, the merchant needs to "look" trustworthy - the cards terminal helps in this process. Unless replacing these elements provides significant benefit over the existing rails, cards are not going anywhere soon.

05 Feb 2019 Reply Read article

The Power of Blockchain for Ecommerce

My experience with block-chain payments is up to multi-day clearance. With eCommerce card payments the only "delay" is my typing information in - the authorization via all these "intermediaries and third parties" is sub-second. Either I am missing something or this is marketing fiction. I DO see huge potential in block-chain, but we need to be cautious that we are solving the right problem.

10 Jan 2019 Reply Read article