{"id":56085,"date":"2023-05-23T10:59:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T02:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=56085"},"modified":"2023-05-23T10:59:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T02:59:38","slug":"traxion-boosts-efficiency-with-pldt-enterprise-epldt-vitro-colocation-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2023\/05\/23\/traxion-boosts-efficiency-with-pldt-enterprise-epldt-vitro-colocation-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Traxion boosts efficiency with PLDT Enterprise, ePLDT VITRO colocation services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>For solutions provider Traxion Pay Inc. (Traxion), ensuring that their customers can use their platform to collect payments easily, conveniently, and without delay is crucial as it continues to serve individuals, freelancers, and small businesses.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dti.gov.ph\/resources\/msme-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\">2021 MSME Statistics from the Department of Trade and Industry<\/a>, micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) make up 99.58% of the total business enterprises operating in the&nbsp;Philippines&nbsp;\u2013 a strong backbone especially in an economy still recovering from the effects of the pandemic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With over 20,000 payment centers&nbsp;nationwide as well as&nbsp;online banking, Traxion understands the importance of addressing the immediate needs of its customers and its evolving role in achieving financial inclusion, hence it ensures to use&nbsp;the latest and most secure technology when it comes to its transaction management system. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traxion&nbsp;is subscribed to ePLDT&nbsp;VITRO&nbsp;Colocation&nbsp;Services, allowing them the security and flexibility to connect with financial bodies like Instapay, Bancnet, and&nbsp;CTMs.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSince we&nbsp;subscribed to&nbsp;ePLDT&nbsp;VITRO&nbsp;Colocation&nbsp;Services, we\u2019ve migrated all our development servers to the new location,\u201d explains&nbsp;Joshua Santos, Chief Operating Officer at Traxion. \u201cAnd [it has become] more sustainable and accessible for us.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>An ally in digital transformation<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTraxion and PLDT Enterprise&nbsp;have&nbsp;a shared&nbsp;commitment to advancing financial inclusion among Filipinos by modernizing rural banks and cooperatives through responsible digital innovations,\u201d says Vic Tria,&nbsp;First Vice President and Head of Enterprise Revenue Group for Domestic Enterprises and Public Sector at PLDT Enterprise. \u201cWith the PLDT&nbsp;Group&nbsp;working at the backend, we are able to achieve this together.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As they moved their digital infrastructure to the ePLDT VITRO data center, Traxion noticed significant changes&nbsp;in their system and operations, including&nbsp;a more efficient IT environment through&nbsp;server consolidation.&nbsp;This eco-friendly solution simplifies server management, centralizes monitoring of IT&nbsp;systems, and saves up on operational and hardware cost.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another benefit for Traxion is having a&nbsp;more secure power supply. \u201cThis is a very important aspect for us since we are a non-bank financial institution, and we&nbsp;need to be online as much as possible,\u201d Santos further explains. \u201cAside from ensuring that no data will be breached, we need to have an uptime of almost 100%.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;ePLDT VITRO&nbsp;solution has also led to&nbsp;proper upkeep and&nbsp;equipment maintenance, allowing&nbsp;smooth operation for Traxion\u2019s networks. Accredited by NTT Communications as a&nbsp;\u2018Nexcenter-compliant\u2019&nbsp;data center facility,&nbsp;ePLDT\u2019s VITRO facility, particularly in Paranaque City,&nbsp;adopts the latest in data center design as well as best practices and overall management experience. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are very happy to hear Traxion\u2019s positive feedback on our services, particularly their subscription to&nbsp;our colocation services,\u201d shares&nbsp;Mitch Locsin, First Vice President and Head of Enterprise and International Business Groups&nbsp;at&nbsp;PLDT and Smart. \u201cThis reinforces our commitment to providing our partners with the right tools and support system to future-proof their businesses.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Beyond customer service&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But beyond all the technical upgrades, Santos noted that the biggest improvement to their business is the excellent customer service that works both ways.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s already an excellent experience when we purchased the product from&nbsp;the PLDT Group, but what we really appreciated is the customer experience \u2013 partner&nbsp;who understands and shares the same&nbsp;values as our&nbsp;company,\u201d he shares. \u201cThe support that we\u2019ve been getting from PLDT Enterprise is what sets it apart from the rest. Whenever we need assistance like reporting a concern, we are given excellent service and accommodation by the team.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe look forward to a&nbsp;stronger&nbsp;partnership with Traxion as we continue to support them in achieving their goals and serving more and more Filipinos through their outstanding financial products and services,\u201d adds Locsin.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PLDT Enterprise, the B2B arm of&nbsp;PLDT,&nbsp;the largest fully integrated telco in the country, continues to empower the banking and fintech&nbsp;industry to move&nbsp;<em>Further Together<\/em>&nbsp;towards fostering financial innovation.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traxion\u00a0is subscribed to ePLDT\u00a0VITRO\u00a0Colocation\u00a0Services, allowing them the security and flexibility to connect with financial bodies like Instapay, Bancnet, and\u00a0CTMs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":56096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[246,379,5096,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-56085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-epldt","tag-pldt","tag-pldt-enterprise","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}