Senin, 17 Desember 2007

IBM partners with ACI Worldwide on e-payment tools (InfoWorld)

San Francisco - IBM said Monday that it is partnering with ACI Worldwide, an electronic payment software vendor, to create a payments system based on service oriented architecture (SOA) principles.

ACIs software will be combined with IBMs System z mainframe, DB2 database, WebSphere middleware, Tivoli IT management software and Crypto-chip technology, according to an IBM statement. ACI also intends to host its software in IBMs data centers, for customers who desire an on-demand payments system.

IBM said the combination of ACIs technology and its own will result in an SOA foundation that allows payment information to be shared throughout enterprises, many of which see a tangle of legacy systems strewn across their IT environments.

The partnership will first result in a version of ACIs BASE24-eps online payments software optimized for System z; a wholesale payments product aimed at the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), and real-time fraud detection technology. Later, the companies will focus on smart card management, dispute management, online banking and a payment hub implementing IBMs Payments Framework, they said.

ACIs customers include more than 110 of the worlds top 500 banks, according to IBM.

 
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