America First Credit Union Selects Alogent for Teller Deposit Automation.8th largest member US credit union to integrate deposit automation technologies with Oracle's Siebel Branch Teller Automation system LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- Alogent Corp., a leading provider of enterprise payment transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. solutions for global financial institutions and processors, today announced America First Credit Union America First Federal Credit Union, a federally chartered credit union headquartered in Ogden, Utah, is the 13th largest credit union in assets in the U.S. As of January, 2007, America First has 72 branch locations, 418,515 members, and has USD3.68 billion in assets. (AFCU AFCU Andrews (Air Force Base) Federal Credit Union AFCU America First Credit Union AFCU Arkansas Federal Credit Union AFCU Actors' Federal Credit Union AFCU Apple Federal Credit Union (Fairfax, VA) ) has selected its Sierra Xpedite([R]) and Sierra Xchange([R]) teller deposit automation solutions as an image-enabled deposit automation strategy. The credit union's goal is to transform its current teller operations model to one that converts paper checks to images at the teller line in real time. Ogden, Utah-based AFCU, with $4.1 billion in assets and almost 500,000 members, plans to deploy Alogent's Sierra suite across 75 branches, automating deposit processes and reducing the manual processing workload for more than 500 tellers throughout the state. "America First Credit Union understands the value of real-time processing Noun 1. real-time processing - data processing fast enough to keep up with an outside process real-time operation data processing - (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information and we are excited about the opportunity to turn their last batch process (checks) into a real-time process," said Brian Geisel, Alogent's founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "AFCU is clearly intent on delivering both business results and service excellence to its members. The credit union will leverage front counter deposit automation to achieve these objectives, and to enhance member loyalty in a competitive retail banking market," he added. Alogent's Sierra Xpedite teller deposit automation will be deployed as a component of AFCU's automated teller system, which is built on Oracle's Siebel Branch Teller. In automating the image capture and processing of paper deposit items at the teller line, the credit union will reduce costs and achieve greater efficiency. Further, Sierra Xpedite technology will provide AFCU's tellers the tools and information they need to maximize "heads-up" time during in-person transactions, thereby creating an opportunity to cross sell products and provide personalized service to every member. "A critical objective in evaluating providers was to achieve end-to-end synergy with our new teller system," said AFCU director of research and development Steve Hilton For the composer and keyboardist Steve Hilton, please see Steve Hilton (musician) Steve Hilton is the director of strategy for David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party. . "Alogent's integration experience, combined with expertise in product, deployment and best practices, illuminates them as a good fit for this partnership." Siebel Branch Teller is a customer-focused, end-to-end transaction and processing teller solution designed to help financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. organizations automate processes and transform their branches into flexible sales and service outlets. AFCU believes that the added functionality with Sierra Xpedite will provide numerous benefits for its staff and members. "We are striving to achieve an integrated implementation that will eliminate the need to train tellers on a separate graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to and we found that in the Alogent solution," said Randy Halley, senior vice president of branch delivery at AFCU. "As an added bonus, Alogent has already had built a software interface for our front counter capture devices. These and other signs render us confident that our partnership with Alogent will fortify for·ti·fy v. for·ti·fied, for·ti·fy·ing, for·ti·fies v.tr. To make strong, as: a. To strengthen and secure (a position) with fortifications. b. To reinforce by adding material. our strategic initiatives." About Alogent Founded in 1995, Alogent Corporation is a leading global provider of enterprise payment processing solutions that enable financial institutions and processors to accelerate the conversion of paper to electronic processing. The company's Sierra suite of solutions automates payments and deposits at every point of presentment (including tellers, branches, ATMs, merchants, corporations and cash vaults) while optimizing electronic data and image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished and settlement. Alogent is the deposit automation market leader with our platform processing billions of payments annually with over 75,000 desktop points of presentment sold. The company counts KeyCorp, Lloyds TSB and SunTrust among its 1,000+ financial institution customers. For more information, visit www.alogent.com or call 888.333.6030. |
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