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Cost-modeling tool aims to help ATM owners plan future OS migrations

The ATM industry model allows deployers to compare four different migration scenarios from a financial perspective, based on typical cost drivers.

November 24, 2014

The ATM Industry Association has released a new cost-modeling tool for ATM deployers to use as they calculate the costs of migrating to new operating systems.

"End of support of Windows XP is a critical challenge to the ATM industry. Given the hardware and software implications, the industry is faced with a sizeable upgrade challenge both in financial and logistical terms," said the document's author, Francesco Burelli, said in an ATMIA news release. Burelli is a partner at Innovalue Management Advisors and winner of the ATMIA 2014 International Consultant of the Year award.

The model was developed in conjunction with leading banks, as well as experts from ATMIA 2020 committees, who are investigating industry options when support for the Windows 7 operating systems ends a few years from now.

Burelli explained how the model could help operators with premigration decision-making:

ATM operators are faced with the ongoing challenge of deciding on their best approach to future migrations. Our industry model offers the ability to compare four different migration scenarios from a financial perspective, based on a bank's typical cost drivers. ATM operators can compare the costs of different upgrade options depending on factors like number of ATMs and the risk levels. Even the prepopulated baseline data is leveragable by ATM operators straight away and offers a realistic and valuable benchmark.

"This intensive study of the costs of migrating ATMs to a new operating system brutally exposes the fallacy we sometimes comes across in our industry that doing nothing when support for the existing OS ends is fine," said ATMIA CEO Mike Lee. "It's definitely not fine, but highly risky. I urge all ATM deployers to read and use this superbly benchmarked new model as a planning tool to prepare for ongoing and future OS migrations."

The document is available for free download.

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ATM Industry Association (ATMIA)

The ATM Industry Association, founded in 1997, is a global non-profit trade association with over 10,500 members in 65 countries. The membership base covers the full range of this worldwide industry comprising over 2.2 million installed ATMs.

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