ACI Worldwide has entered into an exclusive agreement with Bell ID. ACI will license Bell ID’s solutions for smart card management to financial markets and retailers around the world. As part of this agreement, ACI will market and license the ANDiS suite of products, which will continue to be developed by Bell ID from its Dutch headquarters.
The Bell ID products include the ANDiS Card and Application Management System (CAMS), which supports all of the lifecycle phases of smart card management, including embossing file import, data preparation, personalization, EMV script management, and central or in-branch issuance. The ANDiS Key Management System (KMS) allows users to define, maintain, and store cryptographic keys.
The ANDiS Script Delivery System (SDS) supports the distribution of scripts to control or change card attributes remotely. Also included in the ANDiS suite is the ANDiS I-PIN application which supports PIN changes and synchronization over the Internet and Bell ID’s NFC mobile solutions. The combination of these solutions enables organizations to issue applications on smart cards, tokens and phones and manage every step of their lifecycle.
The cooperation will fund significant product enhancements including interoperability of the ANDiS suite with ACI’s Agile Payments Solution framework, to provide a seamless end-to-end solution for the payments industry, according to the companies.
This relationship expands ACI’s offerings in smart card management. It broadens ACI’s offerings in the market and provides ACI’s customers with agile solutions to deliver the products consumers want. Bell ID technology currently manages more than 125 million cards for banking, government and corporate ID, health care and mobile projects worldwide, and ACI’s customers will benefit from the experience of these implementations. The ANDiS solutions have been deployed at organizations that are rolling out their initial smart card programs as well as organizations that have managed complex smart card portfolios for years.
