The client was planning to migrate to the latest release of their authorisation platform and wanted to perform due diligence to ensure that the new upgrade would not impact their transaction processing. Iliad along with a 3rd party provider were engaged to set up and undertake a performance test to replicate the existing terminal estate and planned transaction volumes. Iliad constructed a performance test harness to replicate:-

• 15,000 Hypercom Point of sale devices
• 5,000 Diebold ATM’s
• Visa and MasterCard “on-Us” Transactions..

In addition Iliad were able to replicate the back end systems for both the card issuing platform and connections to Visa and MasterCard to replicate authorisations for switched-out transactions. Iliad were able to demonstrate that the new upgrade to the authorisation platform provided no impact on current processing volumes and indeed provided a level of increased performance that would exceed the clients processing requirements.