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US Dataworks Announces The San Diego Union-Tribune Migrates to Clearingworks Using Cloud Delivery Model
Wednesday 03. November 2010 - US Dataworks, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: UDWK), a leading provider of enterprise payments solutions to financial institutions, billers, and government entities, announced today that The San Diego Union Tribune has migrated to Clearingworks, US Dataworks' flagship product, using a Cloud delivery model. The San Diego Union-Tribune now processes all paper-based remittances, Web, and telephone-initiated payments using Clearingworks.
Clearingworks is the only enterprise payments platform in production using Cloud delivery model to provide a unique end-to-end processing of payments. With US Dataworks’ personalized and proactive service, The San Diego Union-Tribune completed migration in just a few weeks with minimal impact on their IT operations.
The Cloud delivery model reduces costs associated with on-premise solutions in terms of upfront investment, maintenance and upgrades. Other benefits include reduced processing costs, low disruption to daily processing, improved funds availability, simplified bank deposits and streamlined storage of payments-related images and data. Risk is managed through advanced security, SAS-70 audits and PCI compliance.
Diane Davies, accounting operations manager for The San Diego Union-Tribune, commented, “Our payment processing requirements are unique. We have six payment amounts on our remittance coupons, as well as the ability for customers to add tips for the newspaper carrier and donations to charitable organizations. We also process payments from advertisers, which are typically high-dollar transactions that do not have a scan-able remittance document. US Dataworks took the time to understand our requirements and made it easy to automate these transactions using Clearingworks.”
US Dataworks Product Manager, Leilani Doyle, added, “Clearingworks provides unique capabilities for driving unmatched levels of effectiveness and efficiency in multi-channel payments processing environments. Combining these enterprise payments capabilities with Cloud delivery turns the traditional business model for payment processing solutions on its head. As today’s announcement with The San Diego Union-Tribune demonstrates, Clearingworks and Cloud delivery help users respond to emerging payments trends, as well as economic pressures.”
Clearingworks is designed to provide accelerated throughput, consistent business rules application to all transaction types, centralized risk management, utilization of one-step balancing and posting of receivables, access to real-time collections information and fraud detection through a consolidated view of payment images and data. Clearingworks is also designed to simplify payment processing to allow easy integration of new payment types.