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CoreENGINE
 

THE ENGINE TO POWER ALL OF YOUR CARD NEEDS
CoreENGINE is the driving force behind the CoreCard products. As the underlying technology platform it is the result of a research and development effort by the Research and Development group spun off from PaySys international, the creators of VisionPlus®.   

CoreENGINE was designed to reduce the cost of implementing, running and maintaining card management software on expensive mainframe systems. The CoreCard products offer fault tolerant processing throughput on Intel®, UNIX® or Linux® based hardware. CoreENGINE’s use of shared components and parameter driven setup creates a unique environment that eliminates many of the challenges often encountered during credit card processing implementations using other software.

     
 

CoreENGINE Platform

 

Transaction Processing Engine

 

 

Shared Components

 

User Security - GUI - Posting - Business Rules - Workflow - Data Access

 
 
     

UNIVERSAL PLATFORM
CoreENGINE is a fully extensible, real-time universal card management system platform for providing support to our card processing and lending solutions. Its meta-data driven architecture enables the rapid development and deployment of our card management applications.

Comprised of two layers, CoreENGINE’s the top layer houses a library of general financial functions such as posting and transaction processing, message types, rules and workflows, etc. These serve as building blocks for all CoreENGINE-enabled applications. Component functions have been implemented in a generic fashion so that consumer and commercial lending systems beyond card-type applications can be developed on one platform. The interaction of the top and bottom layers gives all CoreCard financial applications their advanced capabilities.

CoreENGINE FUNCTIONALITY
Real-Time Posting – Always current interest, account balance and other calculations supported by CoreENGINE-enabled applications.

Customizable Workflows – A universal rules-based workflow engine manages the assignment and routing of work among all processing units and end-users for any given application without additional programming.

Unlimited Hierarchies – Enables unparalleled flexibility, complex authorization and other processing rules.

Inheritance – All CoreENGINE-enabled systems allow attributes and features to retain their characteristics down the levels of a hierarchy. A piece of information only needs to be entered once and can be reused or inherited at any lower level within the same hierarchy.

System Independence – Compatible with all enterprise operating environments including Windows®, Linux® and various flavors of UNIX.

Hardware and Configuration Independence – Applications run on any Intel® or similar chipset based hardware.

Scalability – Processors can be added as peak workloads increase.

Fault-Tolerance – Should one processor fail, embedded system logic routes transactions to the next available processor.

Database Independence – Industry leading database management systems, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, etc., are supported.

User Interface Independence – Windows and Web interfaces are supported without additional application programming.

UNIVERSAL INTEGRATION – MESSAGE PASSING AND OPEN DATAFLOW ARCHITECTURE ENABLE INTEGRATION WITH THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS INCLUDING MAINFRAME SYSTEMS THROUGH APIS.

Communications and Networking Protocols – Network protocols are encapsulated in the platform and new ones can be added without affecting applications. Supported methods include TCP/IP (intranet or Internet), IPC,    in-memory queues and flat files.

THE CORECARD PRODUCTS SHARE A COMMON SET OF DISTINCTIVE CoreENGINE-ENABLED FEATURES

Multilingual/Multi-Currency Support

 

  • Multiple concurrent languages (includes double-byte and multi-byte characters) and multiple currencies supported.

  • Unique GUI engine accommodates differences in character/alphabet spacing across languages.

  • CoreCard Localization Editor allows non-programmers to perform translations.

 

 Real-Time Posting

 

  • CoreENGINE’s powerful real-time posting engine provides up to the minute data.

  • Projections and re-projections are processed in real-time and impacted balances and interest are recalculated automatically.

 

Open Architecture

 

  • Facilitates easy integration with third party applications.

  • Multiple concurrent languages (includes double-byte and multi-byte characters) and multiple currencies supported.

  • Unique GUI engine accommodates differences in character/alphabet spacing across languages.

  • CoreCard Localization Editor allows non-programmers to perform translations.

 

Account and Role-Based Security

 

  • “CRUDE” (Create, Read, Update, Delete, and Execute) security feature enables point-and-click definition of system and account level access by user and user group levels.

 

Unmatched Flexibility

 

  • Unlimited number of card and merchant account hierarchies supported.

  • Parameter, language and currency inheritance capabilities enable rapid mass changes and eliminate manual data entry errors.

  • Temporality feature enables merchant rates, payment schedules, credit limit increase and all processing rules to go into affect in the future and/or for a limited time period.

  • Flexibility in scheduling critical and non-critical processes.

  • Standard (e.g. daily, weekly & monthly) or custom (e.g. retail quarter) time periods supported.

 

Automatic Audit Trail

 

  • Real-time or future-dated changes are fully tracked in audit trail logs.

 

User Assistance

 

  • General online help tutorial, a “How to” FAQ, and field-specific help are all conveniently accessible within the application.

  • User documentation available in both Microsoft Word and PDF formats.

 

AUTOMATED SYSTEM MONITORING WITH CoreDASHBOARD

 

CoreDASHBOARD simplifies monitoring the performance and activities of application servers running any CoreCard product. CoreDASHBOARD eliminates the need to manually run reports, and start and stop jobs. For more information on the time saving aspects of CoreDASHBOARD click here: CoreDASHBOARD.