Bobsguide (press release), UK
Aug 28 2008
Armenian Card to deploy BPC’s SmartVista
28 August 2008
BPC, a leading provider of e-payment solutions for the global
financial business announced the beginning of a new SmartVista
implementation project in the leading Armenian processing company
Armenian Card (ArCa). The deployed solution will provide monitoring
and management of the nation-wide self-service network of the
processor including ATMs and currency exchange terminals.
Armenian Card (ArCa) is the leading payment card processor in the
Armenian Republic. The company was established in 2000 by the Central
bank of Armenia to issue and acquire cards of the national payment
scheme – Armenian Card, to provide third party processing services for
the MasterCard Worldwide and Visa Int. payment cards and support
e-commerce operations. At present the company serves 20 commercial
banks in Armenia managing almost the whole card infrastructure of the
country.
Having faced the problem of lack of performance and poor integrity of
the switching solution used by the company, ArCa management decided to
implement a modern technology and high performance front-end solution
to support its extended ATM and self-service network. ArCa highly
valued the functionality and reliability of BPC’s SmartVista Front-End
solution and chose it to modernise its transaction switching system.
The broad functionality and high performance of SmartVista, its
scalability and ability to support all the modern payment and banking
services available via self-service terminals will allow ArCa to
ensure undisturbed operation of its self-service network and high
availability of all the services provided by the company and to
significantly expand the range of the self-service options in the
future. Besides, SmartVista Front-End offers a wide spectrum of
interfaces for online interaction with ATMs, POS devices, self-service
terminals, payment schemes and other delivery channels and IT
solutions making IT infrastructure built on it universal and allowing
the customer to use any self-service devices regardless of their
configuration and manufacturer.
Presently to raise the economic performance of the processing centre
is possible only through the implementation of modern technologies
like SmartVista, which supports all the necessary tools for efficient
handling of large ATM and self-service networks and support of all the
modern services for the successful business development and this was
duly recognized by ArCa.
`Taking into consideration that Armenian Card is a multi bank
processing centre, while selecting the processing solution we paid
special attention to the opportunity of remote management of both the
whole self-service network and separate devices’, underlined Shagen
Hovhannisyan, Managing Director, Armenian Card. `It was the
convenience and flexibility of the ATMs and other devices handling
through a modern web-interface together with high fault tolerance,
performance and scalability which defined our choice of SmartVista’.
`Implementation of a switching system based on SmartVista is the best
solution for customers who would like to take full advantage of
SmartVista Front-End superior performance and flexibility to enhance
their on-line real-time processing power whilst retaining their
back-office card management environment’ comments Faris Al-Mashta,
Business Development Director, BPC. `BPC has great experience in
similar projects which will allow us to quickly realise all of the
Armenian card’ tasks.’
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
