Viewpointe is the largest image archive in the US.
Finextra: Harris Bank selects CSC and Viewpointe for electronic imaging (2004)
Harris Bank selects CSC and Viewpointe for electronic imaging Harris Bank, part of the BMO Financial Group, has signed a multi-year agreement to utilise Viewpointe and CSC electronic imaging systems.
In more recent news, Viewpointe have contracted with IBM has signed a five-year, $174 million deal with IBM for the development of a new national cheque image archive. All the big banks in the US are users.
The deal calls for IBM – which is also a minority owner in Viewpointe –
to build a payments system will replace Viewpointe’s current national
image archive, which is the largest in the US. The current archive
contains nearly 80 billion cheque images and is growing at the rate of
about two billion images per month. The system is accessed by banks
more than three million times a day.Viewpointe says the new platform will be designed for 24X7 high
availability and will be capable of serving 3500 images every second,
considerably more than its current archive which typically processes
less than 100 cheque images per second.In a separate announcement, Viewpointe says all of its owner banks –
Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, SunTrust, US Bancorp and Wells Fargo
– are now actively in production with its Check 21 products, ImageShare
and Pointe2Pointe.
