ACI Worldwide partners with Red Hat to enhance payments cloud offering

By Delisha Fernandes

ACI Worldwide, a real-time payments software, announced its collaboration with Red Hat OpenShift, an enterprise Kubernetes platform, to enable financial institutions and payment providers to utilise ACI solutions on the platform.

The collaboration will open new ways for ACI customers to take advantage of the cloud, allowing for an advanced, cohesive strategy for ACI to support both private and public cloud environments as more customers move to cloud-native solutions.

Transitioning to cloud-based infrastructure requires careful consideration, as payment systems are increasingly complex. ACI Worldwide has provided customers running its mission-critical system for decades with a proven transition path to new architectures.

“This latest initiative is just one part of ACI’s cloud strategy, which aims to responsibly guide financial institutions and payment providers on their journey to the cloud and the ongoing shift to cloud-native applications,” said Scotty Perkins, head of cloud, ACI Worldwide. “With this collaboration, ACI is addressing the industry trend of taking different paths and speeds toward cloud modernisation. It means that our customers don’t have to choose between their cloud strategy and ACI, and there are multiple ways to incorporate mission-critical ACI solutions into their technical infrastructures.”

“We look forward to collaborating with ACI to leverage Red Hat OpenShift for open hybrid cloud to help deliver mission-critical payment systems for customers globally,” said Ramon Villarreal, payments industry lead, Red Hat. “At Red Hat, we are committed to supporting our partners and customers in financial services in building and running world-class systems, maximising innovation and time to market, whilst enabling the resiliency and service quality required by next-generation payment systems.”

ACI already offers most of its solution portfolio for financial institutions on-premise, as a cloud deployment in Microsoft Azure and as a managed service. The addition of support for Red Hat OpenShift expands those capabilities for the future.