Hypercom's Artema Modular Enables Pay At The Pump In Portugal
Hypercom Corporation recently announced that Gasodata has selected the Artema Modular EMV payment terminal for installation at fuel retailers throughout Portugal. The rollout and installation of over 700 Artema Modular kits integrated with Dresser Wayne pay-at-the-pump systems has already begun. The PCI-certified unattended payment terminal will be used for chip and magnetic stripe cards, supporting debit, credit and other private label card schemes. All transaction data is transmitted via an IP module which is installed in the pump system.
"There is an escalating demand for high security self-service payment solutions and we are meeting that demand head-on with Artema Modular," said Kazem Aminaee, Managing Director, Southern Europe, Hypercom Corporation. "Gasodata's selection of the Artema Modular, with application software developed by Hypercom partner GFI Portugal, validates the advantages of our unattended product for the petrol retail sector".
Rui Nogueira, Director Electronic Payment Solutions at GFI Portugal, added "We are focused on providing payment solutions to Portugal's integrators and retailers, based on the highest level of security and the broadest set of functionality. We are able to provide these by combining our local application expertise, sales and support network with Hypercom's high technology product platform."
Hypercom's best-in-class unattended card payment solution can be found in self-service machines deployed throughout Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and North America. For additional information please visit: http://www.hypercom.com/products/ArtemaModular.asp
About GFI Portugal
GFI Portugal is a division of GFI Informatique, one of the leading IT service firms in France and Southern Europe. GFI Informatique provides four strategic offerings: consulting, systems integration, infrastructures and production and solutions. The group caters mainly for large corporations, public bodies and local authorities. As part of its industrialization policy, the group has 11 skills centers, two national design and production service centers and three offshore centers. GFI Informatique recorded 2008 revenue of €768.1m and its workforce stood at close to 10,000 at the end of 2008. The group has over 40 branches in France and nine international agencies in Southern and Northern Europe, Morocco and Canada. For more information, visit: www.gfi.fr/en.
About Gasodata
Gasodata is the representative in Portugal of Dresser Wayne, world leader in the design and manufacture of equipment and self-service systems for the supply of fuels posts. Founded in 1988, Gasodata is a reference in the Portuguese market in providing solutions and services to petrol market. Based on partnerships with leading global manufacturers in this sector, Gasodata developed an innovation policy that allows them to lead the Portuguese market of unattended solutions and has been involved in all major projects undertaken in this sector over the last two decades in Portugal. Gasodata has a network of technical assistance with nationwide coverage. For more information, visit: www.gasodata.pt.
About Hypercom
Global payment technology leader Hypercom Corporation delivers a full suite of high security, end-to-end electronic payment products and services. The Company's solutions address the high security electronic transaction needs of banks and other financial institutions, processors, large scale retailers, smaller merchants, quick service restaurants, and users in the transportation, petroleum, healthcare, prepaid, unattended and many other markets. Hypercom solutions enable businesses in more than 100 countries to securely expand their revenues and profits. Hypercom is a founding member of the Secure POS Vendor Alliance (SPVA) and is the second largest provider of electronic payment solutions and services in Western Europe and third largest provider globally. For more information, visit: www.hypercom.com.
SOURCE: Hypercom Corporation