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Carreker
Corporation Press Release - December
3, 1999
Carreker-Antinori
Introduces New ATM Business: Announces
Letter of Intent to Acquire Toronto-based
Automated Integrated Solutions
(Dallas, December 3, 1999) - Carreker-Antinori,
Inc. (NASDAQ: CANI), a leading provider
of integrated consulting and software
solutions to the financial industry,
will introduce at the BAI’s
Retail Delivery ’99 conference
in Miami, the company’s new,
expanded automated teller machine
(ATM) product line of electronic
information services – eiService™.
The new service includes an electronic,
Internet-enabled infrastructure that
provides automated, real-time communication
between ATM deployers and their service
providers.
"The eiService solution will build
upon our considerable Liquidity Management
success," said Denny Carreker, chairman
and chief executive officer of Carreker-Antinori. "Through
a Web-based, open architecture, banks
will now be able to manage their
ATM fault management, dispatch and
cash forecasting needs through a
fully automated system."
"We continue to increase the breadth
of our service offerings where we
see emerging demands in the market
place, and recognize the opportunity
to increase our customers’ and
our own shareholder value," continued
Carreker. The financial services
ATM market opportunity is estimated
at over $1 billion, and like the
retail delivery side of banking,
is anticipated to grow at a compounded
annual growth rate of more than 10%
over the next four years, according
to a GartnerGroup study.
In addition, Carreker-Antinori announced
the signing of a letter of intent
to acquire Toronto-based Automated
Integrated Solutions, Inc. (AIS),
a provider of advanced technologies
driving the monitoring and communication
requirements of large ATM networks.
With this acquisition, Carreker-Antinori
will also acquire two products – ATM
Management System (AMS), technology
which provides the management of
ATM systems through fault monitoring
and automated dispatch and escalation;
and Super Service Provider Gateway
(SSPG), a web-based facility that
allows electronic communication between
ATM deployers and their service providers.
These software solutions, when integrated
with Carreker-Antinori’s market-leading
ATM CashForecaster™ - which
optimizes the level of cash maintained
in an ATM with the cost of transportation
and forecasts daily customer withdrawals
to avert potential currency outages
- will be included in the eiService
suite. The eiService solution complements
Carreker-Antinori’s other Liquidity
Management solutions - Branch CashForecaster
and Vault CashTracker - as well as
the Transportation Services Group.
"This is a natural extension of
the value-added services that we
currently provide to our customers," said
Wyn Lewis, executive vice president
of Revenue Enhancement, Carreker-Antinori. "AIS’s
product vision and technology strengths
in ATM management, dispatch systems
and advanced data communications
expertise were the decisive factors
in our purchase decision. With this
acquisition, we now offer a superior
alternative to competitive technologies.
In fact, by the end of the first
quarter of 2000, we expect to be
in production at two of the five
largest ATM networks in the United
States."
Said Bjorn Larsen, president, AIS, "The
joined efforts of Carreker-Antinori
and AIS will bring significant benefits
to the clients of both companies
and to the financial services industry
as a whole. We saw the value in leveraging
Carreker-Antinori’s extensive
sales network and customer franchise
to rapidly penetrate the market.
The complementary product focus and
vision of the combined companies
will serve as the foundation for
our long-term strategic business
direction."
The eiService solution will be offered
within Carreker-Antinori’s
Liquidity Management group and also
incorporates the recently announced
transportation services group. Jim
McHale will serve as the managing
director of the new group.
About AIS – In 1995, Bjorn
Larsen and colleague Roger Gaulin
founded Automated Integrated Solutions,
Inc. (AIS), with the strategic plan
of building next-generation, script-free
control systems for large automated
teller machine (ATM) networks. The
company’s ATM Management System
(AMS) has set new standards for driving
large networks across the industry,
utilizing new electronic gateways
for communicating transactions, and
automating management of network
operations.
For additional information, please
contact Public Relations, Carreker-Antinori,
(800) 486-1981 or Bjorn Larsen, AIS,
(416) 781-3130.
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