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The project means that Omnipay, a payments processing company that was established in Ireland, can secure transaction processing capability to its customers via a Web site, on an ongoing basis. Unitech will design and implement the site using technology components from IBM, Oracle and BEA Systems.
Omnipay deals primarily with banks and financial institutions in securing and handling international credit card transactions. It does the currency changes that banks would normally do.
The infrastructure solution for the site was developed by Unitech and includes the hardware that will provide the platform for the Web infrastructure system, along with a database of customer and transactional information. It will also ensure that the site's applications can function on the Internet.
The site will be launched in September. Omnipay is currently looking to expand its customer base to other countries, particularly the UK, which is the main reason why it is setting up the Internet site.
"The lion's share of Omnipay's market is international, that is the nature of its service. Therefore it cannot really function without the Internet," Adrian Kelly, marketing executive of Unitech told ElectricNews.Net.
On completion, the transaction processing infrastructure will be maintained in IBM's hosting centres in Dublin, Tallaght and Mulhuddard.
Omnipay was established in February 2000 in Dublin, as a joint venture between founders Brian Connolly and Hubert O'Donoghue, formerly of the AIB.
Unitech is part of the Unitech Open Systems in the UK. It was established in July 1998 and currently employs 9 people in its Dublin offices. It is IBM's largest business partner in the non-PC sector.
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