Intercope’s BOX available on Microsoft Azure

PRESS RELEASE

Hamburg. Intercope’s financial messaging solution, BOX Messaging Hub, has successfully been deployed to the Microsoft Azure cloud computing service. Making the software available through a public cloud solution is a big step towards providing customers with a secure, off-site and cost-effective solution while having a significant impact on time to market.

With the fast development in cloud infrastructures and technologies, the cloud has now become a viable alternative to on-premise options in transaction banking. Substantial cost and procurement time savings for the required hardware, as well as deploying to a secure data centre managed by Microsoft, are key to the value of using the cloud. BOX Messaging Hub is a multi-network solution for all interbank messaging. The impact on setting BOX up for business will significantly improve with the ability to stand up new test environments quickly today, while providing a future production deployment option off-site as customers’ cloud strategies evolve.

Microsoft Azure is a highly available, secure and agile open-cloud service with a global reach. The cloud service takes advantage of Microsoft’s state-of-the-art energy-efficient server facilities and a highly secure system while being linked by one of the largest networks in the world – spanning over 140 countries.

“This is a very exciting step for BOX and our customers. The tests for using Microsoft Azure as a public cloud platform have been very successful and we will be going live this year – in 2020”, says Olaf Grossler, Head of Implementation at Intercope.