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 is a Financial Services Organisation with over 40,000 people, operating more than 1800 branches and service centres. NAB is one of the biggest financial institutions in Australia and is ranked the 17th largest bank in the world.
NAB has a tradition of strength and stability, combined with a reputation for innovative use of technology, including direct banking and EFTPOS merchant services. It is one of the market leaders in providing business banking services to Australian businesses. For further information please visit
www.national.com.au/Business_Solutions
Cisco and Distra are partnering to deliver
Comprehensive Payments Solutions that combines Distra's innovative payment application with Cisco's flexible and powerful Unified Computing System.
The integrated platform provides 24 hour, highly secure payment services, decreases infrastructure costs and unites computing, networking, storage access and virtualisation into one unified system, all while allowing users to quickly make configuration changes when needed.
About Cisco
Cisco is one of the worlds leading technology corporations. American based, Cisco is a multinational corporation with over 70,000 emoployees. Cisco is a worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. For more information please visit
www.cisco.com.
Distra and IBM are currently partnering to deliver agile, reliable and scalable next generation business solutions using Distra's unique application technology and IBM's Banking Industry Framework and Global Resources.
IBM also assists Distra in ensuring that the Distra Universal 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 a global technology and innovation company that stands for progress. With operations in over 170 countries, IBMers around the world invent and integrate hardware, software and services to help forward-thinking enterprises, institutions and people everywhere succeed in building a smarter planet. For more information, visit www.ibm.com.
Distra 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 to actively supporting SEPA (Single European Payments Area) and its' payment solutions are already well developed to meet the demands of this pan-European programme, and the UK Faster Payments Scheme.
About VocaLink
VocaLink is a specialist provider of transaction services to banks, their corporate customers and Government departments. 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 delivering record breaking performance, simplified management and cost-saving efficiencies.
In 2010 Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, another Distra partner providing Distra with significant platform configuration for Distra's in house on going development, testing and client engagement activity.
Distra develops and tests its Java products on Linux/ Oracle Sun 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 .
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 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