A core part of Distra's strategy to deliver and support mission critical solutions to major financial institutions and payments processors is to work with strategic partners to offer end to end solutions.
Distra is a strategic alliance partner with National Australia Bank (NAB), one of Australia's leading tier 1 banks and a rising force in global banking, focused on developing and promoting a range of new payments products and services. The alliance will support the development of a truly global product range servicing customers with a comprehensive end to end model that will benefit financial institutions and merchants in all global payments markets.
About NAB Business and Private Banking
The National Australia Bank employs over 5,650 business banking specialists and 450 financial planners and specialists at over 158 business banking centres Australia wide. It is one of the market leaders in providing business banking services to Australian business. For further information visit:
http://www.national.com.au/Business_Solutions
Distra has entered into an exclusive arrangement with VocaLink Limited, the leading provider of payments services to banks and corporates, to provide its next generation payments technology into a range of VocaLink payments solutions targeted at the UK and European markets.
VocaLink and Distra are committed too and is actively supporting the introduction of a SEPA (Single European Payments Area) and its payment solutions are already well developed to meet the demands of this pan-European programme.
About VocaLink
VocaLink is responsible for the technology behind the UK's automated payments, processing 55 billion transactions in the last 38 years. It is also the largest processor of Direct Debit and Direct Credit transactions in Europe. For more information, visit www.vocalink.com .
Oracle's strategy to work with Independent Software Vendors in defined verticals has led to a relationship with Distra in the payments market.
Oracle's world leading products for databases, business process and distribution coupled with Distra's high performance payments transaction processing software provides a powerful, scalable end to end payments system.
Distra develops and tests its Java products on Linux/ Oracle platforms.
About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information, visit www.oracle.com .
HP and Distra entered into a Global Alliance Agreement in June 2003 with the objective of working together on opportunities in the payments market.
In conjunction with Distra's market leading software, HP and Distra are able to address innovative requirements of forward looking payments market participants.
About HP
HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers - from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world's largest IT companies, with revenue totaling $91.7 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended Oct. 31, 2006. For more information visit www.hp.com .
IBM and Distra are jointly working on a major payments project in the Asia Pacific region.
Through this partnership, IBM assists Distra in ensuring that the Distra payments platform is compatible across all of IBM's server lines and products
from the lower end xSeries Intel servers, throught to pSeries and zSeries Mainframes.
About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. For more information, visit www.ibm.com .
Sun and Distra have a strong relationship that includes working on benchmark testing, client demonstrations and workshops.
Sun's investment review committee awarded Distra a significant platform configuration for Distra's own in house on going development, testing and client engagement activity.
Sun and Distra continue to pursue opportunities in the payments market.
About Sun Microsystems Inc
A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. For more information, visit www.sun.com .
About Intel
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. For more information, visit www.intel.com .
Fujitsu Services and Distra have entered into a market development arrangement to promote the adoption of next generation EFT payments solution by the Spanish Financial Services market and also across the European region.
Fujitsu Services, a leader in the Spanish market for multichannel banking solutions and services has chosen Distra’s technology as the key differentiator for its new EFT payment offering. Fujitsu’s new EFT payment solution will target the business, regulatory and technological challenges major banks and payments processors need to address today for their future card payment businesses.
About Fujitsu
For more information about Fujitsu Services visit: uk.fujitsu.com