3Delta Systems Inc. (3DSI), a leader in online credit card processing, announced the successful implementation of an ERP-integrated credit card processing and security solution for Bell and Howell, experts in customer communication through print, mail and parcel services. The implementation uses 3DSI’s CardVault tokenization service, completely integrated with enterprise-resource software from market leader SAP.
“This is a huge step for both of our industries,” said Allen Cage, CEO of 3DSI. “By integrating credit card processing and CardVault’s unmatched security with Bell and Howell’s SAP solution, we’re making their work easier and keeping their customers’ data safer.”
“With customers throughout North America and Europe, it’s paramount that Bell and Howell provide a means for quick, safe and secure online transactions,” said Bell and Howell Vice President of Marketing Karen Morris. “This is just the latest of our ongoing efforts to provide excellent technology-driven solutions both internally and externally.”
Key to the integration is technology from London-based Enterprise Payment Solutions Ltd., whose Enterprise Payment Exchange software links the SAP environment with 3Delta’s secure storage and processing system.
“Delivering an easy-to-implement, functionally rich extension to SAP’s finance and sales processes for secure card data processing was the key design objective of the Enterprise Payment Exchange add-on, and our rapid deployment at Bell and Howell again proved this. We are delighted to have been part of this project, and to have met all of our customer’s business requirements,” said Enterprise Payment Solutions founder Will Bunker.
“Best of all,” said Cage, “3DSI can do this not just for SAP customers everywhere, but also businesses that use other enterprise resource planning systems.”
3Delta Systems pioneered CardVault in 2003 so merchants could exchange their customers’ confidential card data for randomly generated payment tokens, a process that safely replaces real card numbers with a string of characters that then become useless to would-be thieves. Merchants use only the token key reference for each customer transaction while the real card data remains offsite at 3DSI’s secure processing centers. The company has employed rigorous payment card industry (PCI) requirements for safeguarding cardholder data against fraud and data security breaches since 2004. 3DSI is also a participating organization in the PCI Security Standards Council and identified on the Visa and MasterCard lists of compliant service providers.
