AUSTIN, Texas — Wincor Nixdorf, a leading worldwide manufacturer of ATM and IT technology for financial institutions, has signed a deal with Alogent, a payment processing firm, that will allow Wincor to offer a back office solution for electronic check management.

The solution will provide real-time dialogue between the deposit channel and the check processing back end, using Web services technology, Wincor said. This allows a specialized check processing platform to be implemented in the branch, item processing center or data center. Any changes to specific business rules can be updated and centrally deployed with real-time distribution and availability across the enterprise, thus eliminating the requirement to manually update the client software. As a result, the complexity of managing ATM and branch networks is reduced and solution silos for these channels are streamlined and eliminated.

"In a multi-channel environment, it is imperative that consistent and efficient centralized verification procedures are available to ensure the validity and security (e.g. image quality, fraud verification) of all transactions," stated Reinhard Rabenstein, chief technology officer for Wincor. "It is critical that interfaces to the bank's host systems, item processing systems and external interfaces such as the X9.37 image exchange format are also available. Alogent's deposit automation solution provides all these necessary functions and is proven in many of the world's top financial institutions."