Yerevan /Mediamax/. BPC, a leading provider of e-payment solutions for the global financial business announced the beginning of a new SmartVista implementation project## in the Armenian processing company Armenian Card (ArCa).

The deployed solution will provide monitoring and management of the nation-wide self-service network of the processor including ATMs and currency exchange terminals, Mediamax was told in the BPC.

Having faced the problem of lack of performance and poor integrity of the switching solution used by the company, ArCa management decided to implement a modern technology and high performance front-end solution to support its extended ATM and self-service network. ArCa highly valued the functionality and reliability of BPC’s SmartVista Front-End solution and chose it to modernize its transaction switching system.

“The broad functionality and high performance of SmartVista, its scalability and ability to support all the modern payment and banking services available via self-service terminals will allow ArCa to ensure undisturbed operation of its self-service network and high availability of all the services provided by the company and to significantly expand the range of the self-service options in the future. Besides, SmartVista Front-End offers a wide spectrum of interfaces for online interaction with ATMs, POS devices, self-service terminals, payment schemes and other delivery channels and IT solutions making IT infrastructure built on it universal and allowing the customer to use any self-service devices regardless of their configuration and manufacturer”, BPC announced.

“Taking into consideration that Armenian Card is a multi bank processing centre, while selecting the processing solution we paid special attention to the opportunity of remote management of both the whole self-service network and separate devices”, underlined Shahen Hovhannisyan, Managing Director, Armenian Card. “It was the convenience and flexibility of the ATMs and other devices handling through a modern web-interface together with high fault tolerance, performance and scalability which defined our choice of SmartVista”.