With the help of HPE greenlake edge to cloud platform, Woolworths group, a retailer from Australia and New Zealand, launched a new flexible payment product to the market.
HPE recently announced that, Woolworths group has selected HPE greenlake to support the new wpay payment platform. Based on HPE greenlake, HPE's solution provides customers with an easy to manage cloud platform, enabling them to innovate flexibly and scale up flexibly according to business needs, so as to obtain better visibility and optimize cost management.
Woolworth group is the largest food and commodity retailer in Australia and New Zealand, with more than 1300 stores in both countries. At the same time, Woolworths group's online business is also growing rapidly.
As a long-term customer of HPE, HPE has provided infrastructure and hosting services for Woolworths group in its past cooperation. Since 2007, HPE has been providing technical support to the group's supermarkets, big w discount stores and their customers. The existing platform can handle nearly 30 million transactions for Woolworths group every week.
Now, in order to help its wpay payment platform better enter new markets and achieve growth, Woolworths group urgently needs an end-to-end solution, which needs to combine strong architecture and expansion capabilities, and can provide better cost-effectiveness for wpay payment platform and its merchant partners.
Based on this demand, HPE helps Woolworths group migrate from the current data center environment, and will design and deliver unique end-to-end solutions to help wpay payment platform process a large number of transactions, provide settlement services, support in store terminals, and conduct extensive reporting and analysis. Specifically, relying on HPE greenlake, HPE has created a key business oriented and easy to manage solution for Woolworths group in the as a service mode, which has brought greater capacity to the wpay payment platform and ensured the continuity of existing and new payment businesses. Among them, HPE's complete edge to cloud product portfolio provides assistance for this scheme, including HPE Primera and HPE SynergyWait. Meanwhile, HPE pointnext service provides professional services for Woolworths group and plays an important role in accelerating its digital transformation.
Angelo Clayton, general manager of it store and payment Department of Woolworths group, said:
As the largest retailer in Australia and New Zealand, we have been committed to building leading payment capacity to support retail business for many years. We are pleased that we can now extend this payment capacity to more businesses. HPE is our trusted partner and can support the continuous development of our payment platform.
Stephen bovis, vice president of HPE and managing director of Australia and New Zealand, also said:
We are pleased to take the existing partnership with Woolworths group a step further and adopt it HPE greenlake provides industry-leading technology and services to Woolworths group，So that it can expand new markets. The cooperation with Woolworths group is an excellent example for HPE to provide end-to-end solutions and support services for different industries, and shows the industry an effective way to realize the modernization of it operation and maintenance and business growth.
