ACI and Red Hat

ACI Worldwide strengthens its support for cloud-native enterprise payments solutions through a partnership with Red Hat. This collaboration empowers banks, merchants, and billers to drive, choose, and combine any cloud infrastructure for deploying their payment services.

The partnership between ACI and Red Hat is centered around enhancing the flexibility, scalability, and efficiency of the ACI Enterprise Payments Platform. By leveraging Red Hat® OpenShift® and open-source technology, ACI aims to help banks, financial institutions, merchants, and billers achieve:

  • Cloud portability and migration: Easy onboarding to the public, private, or hybrid cloud environment with zero downtime direction that seamlessly adapts to today’s competitive market demands
  • Deployment flexibility: More control and security over their data by deploying payment services on-premises, in the cloud, or as a managed service
  • Operational efficiency: Lower costs by automating installations and upgrades to meet regulatory requirements while enabling payments orchestration globally
  • Innovation and growth: Accelerated new product launches with an award-winning trusted partner experienced in working in complex environments

“We look forward to collaborating with ACI to help deliver a mission-critical enterprise payments platform for customers globally.”

Stefanie Chiras
senior vice president, partner ecosystem success, Red Hat

Cloud-native solution with an advanced intelligent toolset
Zero downtime

Red Hat’s open-source development model aligns with ACI’s strategy to deliver scalable, resilient, and high-performing modular payment solutions through a single, easy-to-integrate platform:

  • Scalable solution: Take advantage of payment orchestration within the cloud to stay competitive globally with dynamic, real-time processing
  • Microservices enabled: Reduce costs by simplifying operations with ACI’s cloud-native solution, delivered with OpenShift Kubernetes’ infrastructure, which provides ideal operation models to streamline processes
  • Maximized automation: Onboard faster with greater consistency and gain a unified operability driver in zero downtime direction
  • Compliance and security: Meet rapidly changing industry regulations before deadlines by automating system installations and upgrades
  • Robust data protection: Combine AI, machine learning, and an experienced team of payment intelligence experts to prevent fraud in real-time

Unlock the new possibilities with trusted, award-winning technology

By integrating ACI’s payments technology with Red Hat’s award-winning open-source solutions, customers and partners can unlock new possibilities by leveraging a robust infrastructure with extensive resources. Key benefits include:

  • 50 years of ACI payments expertise and innovation: Access real-time payments, account-to-account (A2A) payments, card payments, digital payments, ATM, and cross-border payments under a unified platform that offers fast integration with zero downtime direction
  • Benefit from Red Hat’s hybrid cloud journey: Extensive cloud expertise built from over 20 years of solid enterprise Linux experience, open-source innovation, strong industry partnerships, and a customer-centric approach
  • Drive revenue: Accelerate your global footprint and stay competitive by quickly launching new products into the market
  • Enhance payments intelligence: Automatically detect risks through real-time data analysis to prevent all types of payments fraud
  • Flexible deployment options: Deploy ACI solutions on-premises, in the cloud, or as a managed service

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments.  Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.