FLEETCOR Technologies,
Inc., a leading global provider of fuel cards and workforce
payment solutions, today announced the successful migration of its
Comdata business to IBM's state-of-the-art cloud-based processing
environment. The flexibility and advanced capabilities of this new
infrastructure will allow FLEETCOR to rapidly accommodate growth while
maximizing performance for customers and partners.
Processing over 2 billion transactions across 53 countries in 2016, FLEETCOR has leveraged IBM's Cloud Managed Services for z Systems to
streamline global IT operations with added security and reliability,
while reducing operating costs. The broader implementation with IBM
started in 2016, allowing FLEETCOR to better accommodate business and
operational fluctuations, minimize risk, enhance disaster recovery,
consolidate technology infrastructure and simplify network architecture.
"Through
this seamless migration with IBM, we've gained a flexible, cloud-based
IT infrastructure that helps us reliably scale our transaction
processing capabilities to meet the future needs of our customers and
partners," said Waddaah Keirbeck, Global Chief Technology Officer of
FLEETCOR Technologies. "As our business continues to grow, our
technology infrastructure is already in place."
"Our
extensive experience delivering skilled teams and technologies to
leading companies in the payments industry was a natural fit for
FLEETCOR and its need to migrate technology operations to the cloud,"
said Philip Guido, IBM General Manager for IBM Global Technology
Services North America. "Businesses are increasingly relying on
cloud-based technologies to adapt to fast-moving changes in their
industries. With IBM at the core of its IT operations, FLEETCOR is
helping its customers face tomorrow's challenges more than ever."
In
recognition of the company's success, FLEETCOR was recently named to
the FORTUNE 1000, joining a prestigious list of the country's largest
companies, as well as the FORBES Global 2000, a comprehensive annual
ranking of the world's largest public companies.