LONDON -- HBOS, the financial services group formed by the recent merger of the Halifax and the Bank of Scotland, will implement NCR's (NYSE: NCR) APTRA Edge self-service software on 200 NCR Personas ATMs which were bought to replace old units in a deal worth several million pounds.
The implementation, a joint development between NCR and HBOS, will include NCR software, tools and licenses, architecture and design, professional services and project management.
APTRA Edge will be installed initially on the new NCR ATMs, including Personas 75 and Personas 70 models. Plans to roll out the vendor-independent software on the bank's other ATMs are under consideration.
According to an NCR release, APTRA Edge will enable HBOS to integrate its ATM network with the other service channels and back-end systems.
"In this competitive climate, speed is essential," said David Walken, head of Retail Operations at HBOS. "In the future, we will be able to develop one version of software that can be used at ATMs and kiosks. APTRA Edge enables us to reduce our software development costs and introduce services quickly on these channels."
The new partnership follows a successful pilot of APTRA Edge in 2001 that saw NCR and Halifax jointly develop the software to deliver Halifax images from the advertising campaigns to multiple vendor ATMs.
