
Point of learning from every new way in which we apply technology," 'new' and 'proven' in the same breath, but we make a "It's very rare that you can use the words To Sara Brooks, chief strategy officer for Fiserv's credit union The Oracle-based platform will be servicedĭomestically from a state-of-the-art data center in Atlanta, according Platform in the past couple years, running it from a service center inīritish Columbia. Who want it total ownership and control over their technologyĪbout a dozen Canadian credit unions have installed the new "Open at every architectural level, Acumen gives credit unions Uses Internet-type technology the way that Acumen does." "Clearly, they have a certain percentage of the largeĬredit union market, but one of those you mentioned couldn't beįurther away from ours in terms of architecture, and neither of them "We didn't tailor our platform around those two,"īutler said. Solutions and Symitar have leveraged to sharply build their share of Those are the kinds of credit unions, of course, with back shopsĮquipped and often eager and anxious to develop and deploy their ownĪpplications and interfaces, something that key rivals like Open Technologies and that we can target at the largest and most progressiveĬredit unions in the country," Butler said. "We just saw an opportunity, a chance to start from scratch and design a solution from the ground up that uses the latest Internet The company, as well as strategy talks with a number of clients and The development of the new platform drew in expertise from across Have a plan to consolidate our core systems.

"We're a firm believer in choice," said Scottīutler, president of Credit Union Solutions at Fiserv. Wisconsin-based company said, but said it does not represent theīeginning of the end of those other platforms. The Acumen platform is a milestone in that process, the Seven formerly separate CU divisions earlier this year. Than 2,500 credit unions and formally completed the integration of its Matter what your job is at the credit union, you'll be using theįiserv currently provides several core processing platforms to more Whether you're front-line personnel or work in the back office, no We built it from the ground up to be that way. In addition, "Acumen is completely, 100% browser-based, not Requirements for the Canadian market and now suited for similar Multilanguage functionality initially developed to meet French-English Same browser interface for both front-end and back-office applicationsĪnd a built-in, 360-degree member view, as well as deeply engrained Other selling points Fiserv touts about its new core platform: The Server failure it just falls over to the next server and keeps right on The same technology to this credit union system, so that if there is a Instead of just relying on one server, we applied The Internet itself has changed all this with its 450,000 or so serversĬonnected worldwide. "It's completely redundant, like the big Internet sites. One key way that has taken shape is in system reliability, Brim United States," said Dave Brim, vice president of productĪcumen, its name now in both markets, takes functionality andĪttributes of "the Internet, the Googles and Amazons and eBays andĪpplies that technology to the financial services industry," Brim Went live in 2005 in Canada and now it's ready for launch in the
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"We wrote the first line of code for this in March 2002. The Acumen account processing solution was initially launched inĬanada as iSpectrum and was built from the ground up to use Web services and other integrating technologies, the company said. is launching what it calls an all-new core processing systemĪimed at the highest end of the credit union market. Retrieved from Īfter seven years in the making and a maiden voyage up north,įiserv Inc.
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