Passageways Lands Bethpage/ Bellco CUSO as Portal Client/ Developers

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Open Technology Solutions (OTS) has agreed to deploy the intranet portal solution from Passageways LLC, adding to the traction the Purdue Employees FCU already has been gaining in credit union land. The pact calls for Passageways to provide its portal platform to the two credit unions that formed OTS, $2 billion Bethpage FCU of New York and $1.6 Bellco CU of Colorado, as well as to any future clients of OTS itself, which was formed in 2003 to develop and extend solutions based on the Open Solutions Inc. core platforms. “This is in line with our philosophy of centralization of all development efforts for our credit union partners,” says Steve Markwell, executive director of OTS (www.open-techs.com) Passageways now has more than 60 clients using its knowledge-management portals, including five of the largest 50 credit unions, the company says.