News

ACI continues to evolve BASE24-es software

November 20, 2003

OMAHA, Neb. - ACI Worldwide (Nasdaq: TSAI) has signed an agreement with HP to provide ACI's BASE24-es e-payment software, which is used to acquire, authenticate, route, switch and authorize transactions across multiple delivery channels, on the HP-UX Integrity Server family.

BASE24-es also can be used on HP Nonstop, IBM zSeries and pSeries and Sun Solaris servers. 

"Electronic payment systems are entering a revolutionary phase with new payment and channel developments requiring open solutions to support enterprise-wide transaction services," said Mark Vipond, president of ACI Worldwide, in a news release. "We are teaming with HP to offer ACI's BASE24-es enterprise features within the HP-UX environment in direct response to customer demand."

One year after ACI launched its multi-platform BASE24-es e-payment software, the company says BASE24-es has been licensed seven times to major industry players, including the leading credit card company in the world and two Top 500 world banks.

"We... determined that ACI's BASE24-es system offered the best solution to meet all of our current needs and the best foundation to take advantage of future opportunities," said Mark Piper, senior vice president of ATM management for BB&T, one of the new customers.

According to ACI, six customers have licensed the new product for Enhanced Authorization, using it to offer services such as replacing legacy systems transaction authorization, offering mobile phone top-up capabilities and linking to smart card management sub-systems.

Eleven customers are now live with ACI's new Transaction Security Services module (TSS), used by customers to support the new Triple DES encryption standard. Eight customers have licensed ACI's new Automated Key Distribution System (AKDS), used to automate the distribution and management of new security keys at ATMs.

Both TSS and AKDS are based on ACI's "enhanced services" architecture, the same underlying technology as BASE24-es, according to the company.

"As banks invest in 'channel renewal,' replacing and re-integrating older-generation self-service and manned channels, customers are viewing BASE24-es more broadly as an enabler to integrate transaction processing functions at a lower cost and a higher degree of flexibility than has previously been available," Vipond said. "Exposing key functions such as customer authentication, legacy systems access and transaction routing to channels across the bank offers the opportunity to streamline operations and save money."