IBM and ACI have partnered since the mid-1980s to provide financial institutions highly reliable and full function applications for transaction processing, transaction settlement, and card management applications. In 2007, IBM and ACI deepened their commitment to each other through an extensive partner alliance agreement whereby ACI will make its entire set of integrated solutions available on the IBM System z and System p servers.
In 2007, ACI Worldwide and IBM announced a significantly expanded strategic alliance to create an end-to-end solution for electronic payments powered by IBM's open technology.
As part of the alliance, ACI have optimized a new generation of payment solutions on the IBM System z platform. System z offers an excellent platform for ACI’s end-to-end solutions. ACI payments software running on System z provides an SOA foundation that opens up disparate payments information to be shared across the enterprise in support of multiple software applications and lines of business.
In addition to benefiting from the SOA approach, ACI clients that bring their payment transaction traffic to the System z platform can also take advantage of industry leading security, reliability and availability, and help reduce power consumption and maintenance costs through server consolidation. ACI payment solutions also operate on IBM System p for situations where that is the more appropriate hardware platform.
Customers can now operate ACI Money Transfer System in the IBM System z environment, bringing it alongside the other ACI solutions and supporting ACI’s overall strategy of consolidating payment services in a hub environment. This helps deliver a streamlined payment service, with all the associated benefits of cost reduction, improved service delivery and making data more accessible to the organization.
IBM technology enablement
ACI products are being enhanced to make use of various IBM technologies including:
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Websphere
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Tivoli
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DB2
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Crypto Express
As a result of the integration work of the application infrastructure layer of the ACI products, several products have been awarded the 'Ready for Tivoli' mark. The following products are currently enabled for Tivoli:
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ACI Payments Manager - enabled for Tivoli Enterprise Console and Tivoli Monitoring
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ACI Proactive Risk Manager - enabled for Tivoli Enterprise Console and Tivoli Monitoring
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BASE24-eps - enabled for Tivoli Enterprise Console and Tivoli Monitoring
Consolidating payments with IBM and ACI can help reduce cost, complexity, risk and the environmental impact.
IBM-ACI alliance related documents
Electronic payment solutions for retail banking
Electronic payment solutions for wholesale banking
Enterprise fraud solutions