Endava offer a 12-week consulting engagement guided by the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework spanning discovery, assessment and implementation of a POC for Merchant Acquiring capability. As the entire solution, the POC is built natively on Azure, which allows for consistency, resilience and scale. Azure permits the use of: * High-level Data Analytics, AI & ML Services * End-to-End infrastructure and DevOps practices Deliverables * Discovery of technology and business processes landscape * Implementation strategy * Proof Of Concept architecture and software engineering * Deployment in the test environment * Lessons learnt and roadmap to MVP The POC is the first component of the Endava Merchant Acquiring Solution that allows banks to re-instate Merchant Acquiring without requiring the build of a new platform from scratch. The end-to-end offering comprises strategy, design, implementation, run and evolve of Azure-based Merchant Acquiring platforms. Endava employs the best practice provided by the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework to streamline and secure every step of the process.