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Pat Bermingham, CEO, Adflex

The B2B payments market has been widely estimated to reach $2.5 trillion by 2030. But getting there is likely to be a bumpy ride. Smooth user experiences still seem to be taking second place to what can be lengthy, complex processes. Standard terms of payments vary by industry sector with many companies defaulting to legacy invoicing – this can be detrimental and is likely to be unsustainable. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence explores the current state of B2B payments with Pat Bermingham, CEO of B2B payment specialist Adflex. 

Charles Damen, Chief Product Officer, Token.io

Token.io reaches 567 million bank accounts in 20 countries through a single API and interface. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Charles Damen, Chief Product Officer of Token.io about variable recurring payments. Notably, a survey by the company suggests that a majority of merchants in the UK would like to migrate customers from card payments to VRPs. 

Brian Hanrahan, CEO, Nuapay

Nuapay is a pioneer of open banking. It’s payments platform offers customers across Europe a comprehensive, integrated solution that covers account-2-account based payment needs and supports credit transfers and direct debit transactions in both euros and sterling including real time mechanisms SEPA Instant and Faster Payments. Brian Hanrahan, CEO, Nuapay speaks to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence about the future…

Stephen Wright, Head of Regulation & Standards, Bank of APIs, NatWest

Open banking now has 7 million customers in the UK who, for the most part don’t know they are using open banking capabilities. But most of what they are doing does not earn the banks any money! So the question becomes what can bankers do to monetise open banking, and build on what has been developed into a sustainable business for the future? Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Stephen Wright, Head of Regulation & Standards, Bank of APIs, NatWest. 

Henk van Hulle, CEO, Open Banking Implementation Entity

The UK has led the world in the development of open banking solutions with more than 6 million consumers now using open banking services. What comes next – consolidation, more cooperation? Have we reached the limits of the top-down approach to open banking? Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses these questions and more with Henk van Hulle, CEO of OBIE, the Open Banking Implementation Entity, the body tasked with establishing the framework that connects, banks, fintechs and tech suppliers.

Charles Damen, Chief Product Officer, Token

Account-to-account payments now pose a genuine threat to debit cards – we review the use cases and benefits. At the same time, API maturity is accelerating and pushing the boundaries of open banking with premium APIs and value-added services, a key focus for the future with VRPs but one example. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence discusses the issues with Charles Damen, Chief Product Officer of the open banking platform Token, which made history by conducting the first end-to-end payment through a public bank API in the UK back in 2018.

This podcast explores what Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs) are and what their introduction and usage will mean to the banks.

VRPs are a new payments feature offered through the open banking service in the UK, and are a form of payment instruction that can be set up and used to make a series of future and recurring payments.

Steffen Vollert, CTO & Co-founder, Volt

The potential for Variable Recurring Payments (VRP) to transform the payments landscape has grown since the UK Competition and Markets Authority issued a mandate of VRP for Sweeping in July. In November, the very first Open Banking VRP Hackathon focused on just how VRP will shape the payments ecosystem, looking to define the role that banks and PISPs will need to play. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence speaks to Steffen Vollert, CTO and co-founder of Volt about the coming of VRP.

How can we generate efficient routes for a large fleets of vehicles that have to make many thousands of deliveries a day while taking into account breaks, shift patterns and traffic conditions? Now let's make those vehicles electric and we need to take into account vehicle battery charge level, recharging station locations and anticipated energy efficiency. It's a challenging problem!

Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is the optimisation problem that describes all manifested delivery operations. It provides an optimal way of sorting deliveries onto multiple vehicles and providing each vehicle with an optimal sequence for delivery. The problem is NP-hard and suffers from a combinatorial explosion of solutions as the number of vehicles and deliveries increases.

We speak to Merve Keskin of the Warwick Business School about extending VRP as an area of optimisation to electric vehicles with a number of interesting developments:

• Keeping track of battery level en route and inserting possible stops at nearby compatible recharging points
• Allowing delay for possible queues at recharge points
• Potential for inflight negotiation on charge point booking so as to minimise contention for resource and wait times on long journeys.

With interview guest Dr. Merve Keskin, Warwick Business School and KTP fellow.
https://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/merve-keskin/

Further reading

• Merve Keskin's publication list (via Google Scholar)
• Paper: A matheuristic method for the electric vehicle routing problem with time windows and fast chargers (summary via ScienceDirect)
• Paper: Electric vehicle routing problem with time-dependent waiting times at recharging stations (pdf via researchgate)
• Paper: Partial recharge strategies for the electric vehicle routing problem with time windows (summary via ScienceDirect)
• Overview: A concise guide to existing and emerging vehicle routing problem variants (pdf via arXiv)

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Recording date: 28 Feb. 2020
Interview date: 12 Feb. 2020

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In this Voice of Veritas podcast episode, we’re digging into the truth in Information. Zoe Sands, Social and Community Marketing, Veritas, interviews Jasmit Sagoo, Head of Technology Northern Europe, Veritas on modern workloads.

Jasmit defines the term “digital enterprise” and 3 major points for business’ success in today’s world:

1. Customers
2. New Business Model
3. How organization’s are leveraging technology

Jasmit then digs into modern workloads and best practices for a successful data management approach to managing modern workloads. Protecting this data at scale is critical.

Tune in to hear the full episode and learn more about Veritas.

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In this Voice of Veritas podcast episode, we’re digging into the truth in Information. Zoe Sands, Social and Community Marketing, Veritas, interviews Ian Wood, Head of Business Practices EMEA, Veritas, on the latest Databerg research.

How can you get a handle on your dark data? Veritas just recently launched the second Databerg research for the United Arab Emirates.

In 2016, we rolled out how organizations are effectively managing their data and the key obstacles they faced. Our survey results then uncovered that the biggest challenge was visibility into their data. Veritas then coined the term “Databerg” in our analogy when looking at the types of data an organization must manage.

What is a “Databerg” is a concept similar to an iceberg. Above the surface Below the surface, organizations don’t know what data resides their and how valuable the data is. It’s known as “dark data” or better known as data that is not classified.  Above the water is the “clean data” or better known as the data an organization understands.

Tune in to hear the full episode as Ian shares the latest findings from the 2018 Databerg report. Read the full Databerg press release.

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In this Voice of Veritas podcast episode, we’re digging into the truth in Information. Zoe Sands, Social and Community Marketing, Veritas, interviews Brett Samuel, Technical Sales Manager, Veritas, from GITEX 2018 discussing how to jumpstart recovery and build a solid business continuity strategy.

As we’ve started to digitize companies with 24/7 services and “always-on” expectations, business continuity has become a more relevant IT conversation. Here’s what organizations should consider for IT resiliency:

• What is our plan?
• What could affect our plan?

Organizations face challenges such as complexity and preparing for with IT resiliency. Brett shares Veritas’ software and consulting approach to disaster recovery is what sets the solutions apart.

To learn more, visit veritas.com/resiliency.

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In this Voice of Veritas podcast episode, we’re digging into the truth in Information. Zoe Sands, Social and Community Marketing, Veritas, interviews Ian Wood, Head of Business Practices EMEA, Veritas, on healthcare IT challenges and Veritas’ solutions solving these challenges for healthcare organizations.

Ian starts the conversation focused on how organizations are challenged with extracting value from the “data deluge”. Healthcare is perhaps challenged more than other industries. Why? Storage of data for longer periods of times, types of data changing beyond x-rays and now to 3D MRIs and more! Protecting this data is critical.

What can Veritas solutions do for healthcare organizations? Ian shares how Veritas helps protect and manage this critical and sensitive information. Additionally, with Veritas’ unique approach, the solutions provide information visibility, storage optimization, apply digital governance and high availability no matter where the data resides so that healthcare organizations can use data more effectively to improve patient care and outcomes.

Tune in to hear the full episode as Ian shares customer use cases in the healthcare sector. Learn how Veritas solutions can help healthcare organizations, click here.

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In this episode of the Voice of Veritas podcast, we’re digging into the truth in information. Your host Bradley Tips, Director Strategic Alliances, Veritas, interviews Tres Vance, Sr. Solutions Architect, AWS at VMworld as they dig into the partnership with AWS.

Veritas and AWS are integrated in multiple dimensions such as the integration around NetBackup, Backup Exec as well as Veritas Resiliency Platform. No matter the use case, Veritas and AWS have you covered. Together we’re demystifying the idea of going to the cloud, simplifying customers’ challenges they’re having on-premises.

Listen to the full podcast to learn more about the Veritas and AWS partnership.

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In this episode of the Voice of Veritas podcast, we’re digging into the truth in information. Your host Shawn Aquino, Solutions Marketing, Veritas, interviews Phil Yaccino, Sales Engineer, Veritas, from Microsoft Inspire discussing data privacy.

Phil and Shawn discuss the Veritas Digital Compliance Solutions and how they help customers attain, achieve and maintain compliance with emerging privacy regulations. There is a lot of buzz about GDPR and organizations must be much more proactive about data regulations. It’s not just about GDPR, as lots of new state legislations are being passed as well around data privacy.

To achieve and maintain compliance, Veritas solutions such as Information Map, Data Insight, Enterprise Vault, Enterprise Vault.Cloud, eDiscovery Platform help Veritas partners help their customers with

• visibility into their data
• the ability to take action on their data
• classification of their data

Learn more, visit our Digital Compliance solution overview on Veritas.com

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In this episode of the Voice of Veritas podcast, we’re digging into the truth in information. Your host Carla Ewing, Global Alliance Manager, Veritas, interviews Ewan Dalton, One Commercial Partner Team, Microsoft, live from Microsoft Inspire discussing the Veritas and Microsoft global partnership.

Veritas and Microsoft join forces partnering together to help customers moving to the cloud. The partnership is focused on bringing together to benefit the customer migrating to Azure and leveraging Veritas data protection in the cloud. 

Learn more about the partnership here: https://www.veritas.com/microsoft

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In this episode of the Voice of Veritas podcast, we’re digging into the truth in information. Your host Glen Simon, Solutions Marketing, Veritas, sits down with Abrar Hussain, Director of Product Management, Veritas, to discuss the top reasons for upgrading to NetBackup 8.1.2.

With the new release of NetBackup 8.1.2. you can reduce the time spent on your daily backup management tasks and free up your time to drive innovation within your organization.

Here are the top reasons for upgrading to NetBackup 8.1.2 are as follows:

• Easier to manage
• Easier to recover
• Easier to upgrade
• Easier to automate
• Easier to plan

We’re all about making it easier for our customers! Tune in and find out what Abrar highlights on the top reasons for upgrading to NetBackup. Check it out: veritas.com/netbackup 

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In this episode of the Voice of Veritas podcast, we’re digging into the truth in information. Your host Sama Bali, Solutions Marketing, Veritas, sits down with Abrar Hussain, Director of Product Management, Veritas the new user experience with the latest release of NetBackup 8.1.2.

The new NetBackup user experience has arrived! With the new user experience, we’re bring in all workloads into a modern design. Including:

• NBU API’s
• Instant Access
• Role-based access control
• Agentless Deployment
• And More!

How can this help those of you using NetBackup on a daily basis? Find out what Abrar highlights on the changes in the NetBackup user experience and user interface. Check it out: veritas.com/netbackup

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In this episode of the Voice of Veritas podcast, we’re digging into the truth in information. Your host Joann Starke, Solutions Marketing, Veritas, interviews Clifford Barcliff, Evangelist, Datacenter Resiliency, Veritas, live from the Veritas booth at Microsoft Inspire.

Clifford shares what’s exciting about being onsite at Microsoft Inspire. He notes, it’s an opportunity to connect with customers and partners to have conversations about solving big business challenges such as Data Protection.

Business Continuity and IT Disaster Recovery are two topics Clifford is most passionate about. Clifford notes that resiliency is about a way of doing business. Disaster Recovery is the point in time you’re planning for. Resiliency is ultimately about making the business run better.  

Veritas Resiliency Platform is not just about being a data mover, but about proving that the spend on the infrastructure actually is doing what you want.  

Clifford is in the business of selling “paychecks and weekends” aka time and money! Find out what Clifford highlights about Veritas Resiliency Platform.

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In this episode of the Voice of Veritas podcast, we’re digging into the truth in information. Your host Alex Sakaguchi, Solutions Marketing, Veritas, sits down with Killian Evers, Vice President of User Experience at Veritas, discussing the elements of design within the user experience. 

Killian is passionate about technology and design and shares what makes her excited about Veritas. Ultimately, Killian’s mission is to deliver world class design for a world class technology and engineering.

There are core design principles are rooted in human behavior. You can boil them down to three key principles:

1. Keep it simple
2. Make it intuitive
3. Ensure it is integrated.

Applying these principles into enterprise software creates a world class user experience. Tune in and find out how this applies to Veritas solutions.  

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