ACI Worldwide selects Ascert to provide testing solutions

Ascert and ACI Worldwide sign licensing agreement for VersaTEST and RELATE

SAUSALITO, CA (PRWEB) August 27, 2004 -- Ascert, a leading provider of testing and quality assurance solutions announces that ACI Worldwide has selected the Ascert VersaTEST and RELATE product solutions to test the ACI Commerce Framework. The Ascert VersaTEST and RELATE testing products, will allow ACIs software developers and testing specialists to quickly and easily create test environments for ACIs market leading financial applications such as BASE24® and BASE24-es.

Ascerts testing solutions will complement our BASE24 Development and Quality Assurance processes and will allow us to gain efficiencies throughout the development cycle. " said Bob Cronin, Vice President, Payment Systems, ACI Worldwide. The solutions will help us improve our overall testing cycles by supporting end-to-end testing environments. We will more accurately identify software, system and network issues."

ACI can use the same testing product set and test cases on multiple platforms -- supporting ACIs migration toward open system technologies," added Cronin. ACI and Ascert have a broad base of mutual customers and this will support a common testing environment allowing us to better serve our customers."

ACIs commitment to our products is a great testament to our vision of what server-based testing products should be," said Neil Bason, CEO of Ascert. ACI is a world leader in providing mission-critical end-to-end financial applications and our products will help them test more effectively, test more often and test wherever they need to."

About Ascert
Ascert provides testing products, services and solutions to mission-critical business users worldwide. Originally founded to meet the testing needs of fault-tolerant Tandem Computers, now known as the HP NonStop Server, Ascert enables companies to accurately test their mission-critical applications, services, networks, interfaces, systems and devices from one common tool-set operating on any Java-enabled platform.

Ascert, LLC, a privately held company, is headquartered in Sausalito, California. With development and support centers located in Europe and the Pacific rim, Ascert services a world-wide customer base. For more information on Ascert, please go to www.ascert.com

About ACI Worldwide
Every second of every day, consumers are initiating electronic payment transactions-getting cash at ATMs, using debit and credit cards to make purchases in stores and on the Internet, banking by phone and PC, and paying bills online. Over 40 billion times a year, ACI software is used to process these transactions, powering the worlds online payment systems.

ACI was founded in 1975 and pioneered the development of applications and networking software for online transaction processing. Today more than 500 customers in 76 countries use ACI supplied software. Visit ACI Worldwide on the Internet at www.aciworldwide.com

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