Pierre Naude
Analyst · Raymond James.
So let's talk about the consumer-facing side of this, okay? What if American Airlines change the whole booking operations and issuing tickets, et cetera. but you still have to make a phone call. You go out for the old stuff. It didn't our view but to help them in the middle back office. For us putting up probably the most sophisticated, elegant front-end solution, where consumers now can do this stuff and go self-service. It removes the burden from the bank. It gives them a modern platform. It drives self-service to an extent, not known in banking today, okay? So now all of a sudden, people start believing that all that hard work we did for the middle back office, if you plug that front end in, it drives that consumer adoption and self-service, they were always competing for. And that's the difference that this front end is making. It is the final piece of the puzzle. But we never wanted to do it until we've got the middle back office clean. Otherwise, you've got this cool front end, and you wait 3 days for an answer, okay? We are moving through a world. We have 5 years from now. I believe consumer and small business banking at the low end should be mostly driven by self-service and intuitive tools that drives intelligence behind the scenes to advise and help consumers to be totally self-service. It should be so simplistic, just like your iPhone come in a box, you don't get a manual, you don't go to a training course. The same is going to happen. We're going to take banking to that same level of efficiency and automation. The Abrigo one is just to fill a hole on indirect lending because that's what the market space wants. And if they get this end-to-end solution that can do that as well, they can literally rip and replace their current disparate systems. They've got between 10 and 15 systems doing all the stuff we're doing. We're going to go in with a single platform, elegant front end, totally different self-service, you come halfway through application walk into the brands. Everything is right there. The brand person will pick you up say, yes, where you left off, I'll finish it for you. So lots of excitement around that. And if you hear the feedback we get from some of our largest customers around the mortgage experience, where people literally wrote them letters to say, "I want to take the dog for walk and I applied to the mortgage, on a very complex product and solution, that's the kind of elegance we want to drive into the market.