ACI Worldwide Inc. of New York has updated its payment processing software to run on additional hardware from International Business Machines Corp.
ACI developed its Base24-eps payment engine five years ago to run on Hewlett-Packard Co.'s NonStop fault tolerant systems but later adapted it to run on other systems using the Unix operating system, including IBM's P-series machines.
On Monday, ACI said that its software now works on IBM's Z-series.
Fewer than 10 customers currently are using the payment engine software with IBM's Z-series machines, but "in the pipeline, it's huge," Bobby Koscheski, ACI's chief marketing officer, said in an interview Monday. Demand for the new version is high because many customers that ran Base24 on a NonStop system often have, "right next to it, a big IBM mainframe installation" in their data centers, he said.
Being able to run the software on the IBM machines would lower costs and simplify maintenance, he said.
