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Level Four partners with S. African software developer

December 15, 2004

LONDON - Level Four Software, a provider of ATM and point-of-sale test and development software, has formed a partnership and co-marketing agreement with Absolute Systems, a South African provider of open architecture ATM software applications.

Level Four will use Absolute Systems' core product offering AbsoluteINTERACT, in demonstrations of its XFS extension module in its EMEA sales activity, and its expanding Americas business, according to a news release.

The XFS extension, which is part of Level Four's ATM Channel Development Suite, enables the simulation and full automated desktop testing of an XFS-based ATM environment and the interaction between hardware, software and the host system. The introduction of automated testing reduces the dependency on  manual testing and provides greater control and audit records of test cycles.

"This partnership has developed naturally as we share a common belief that open standards will have a huge impact on the ATM marketplace, and Level Four's technology fits well with our own XFS-based software," said David Longe, managing director of Absolute Systems.

"An increasing number of leading banks are adopting open standards and in particular the XFS standard. XFS is opening up the market for multi-vendor ATM applications and companies like Absolute Systems are leading the way," said Martin Macmillan, CEO at Level Four Software. "Our partnership with Absolute Systems will benefit both companies as we look to progress the adoption of open standard solutions across EMEA and the Americas."

Level Four has already implemented its XFS extension at Rabobank in The Netherlands for testing the bank's proprietary ATM application that sits alongside Wincor Nixdorf's ProTopas ATM software, running on NCR and Wincor hardware.