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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Marvin (Mickey) Goldwasser
Open Solutions Inc.
860.652.3153
mgoldwasser@opensolutions.com
Community First Credit Union Signs
Seven-year Agreement
with Open Solutions Inc.
Credit Union Selects Canadian
Version of The Complete Credit
Union Solution and Other Strategic Solutions
GLASTONBURY,
Conn., Feb. 1, 2007 – Open Solutions Inc.®, a leading provider
of integrated, enterprise-wide data processing technologies for banks and
credit unions throughout the United States and Canada, today announced
that Ontario-based Community First Credit Union has signed a seven-year agreement
with Open Solutions for the Canadian version of the company’s
enterprise relational data processing platform, The Complete Credit
Union Solution®, and other complementary technologies to handle the
credit union’s processing needs. Community First Credit Union is
based in Sault St. Marie, Ontario and serves more than 15,000 members.
Established in 1948,
Community First Credit Union has branches in the communities of Sault St.
Marie and Timmins, and provides financial services to members throughout
the province of Ontario, primarily in the Northern Ontario area. “A
main focus of our credit union is to improve our members’ well
being by understanding and responding to their financial priorities and
needs, and technology plays a key role in this endeavour,” said
Greg Peres, CEO, Community First Credit Union. “We needed an
advanced, flexible core solution that would allow our employees to
quickly and effectively respond to the ever-growing needs of our members
and to manage an increasingly complex suite of products and services.
More importantly, we were looking for a strong, capable organization to
act as a strategic technology ‘partner’ to our credit union,
allowing us to focus on our core competencies as a financial services
provider. Our long term agreement underscores our belief that we have
found our strategic vendor-partner in Open Solutions Canada.”
Peres
continues, “We carefully reviewed banking system options and
believe Open Solutions’ commitment to Canadian credit unions,
coupled with the advanced technologies and services it offers, will
enable our credit union to improve its operational efficiencies while
supporting our mission of providing quality financial solutions and
unsurpassed service to members of our community.”
Open Solutions Canada President
Blair Goulet said, “We are delighted to welcome Community First as
the first Ontario credit union to our growing Open Solutions Canada
family. Community First is recognized as one of Ontario’s premier
credit unions, known for their member focus, community involvement and
service innovation. We are especially proud that Community First views
our company as their strategic technology partner and look forward to
working with them to help them achieve their business goals. We believe
that by selecting Open Solutions Canada and our open, relational
technology, Community First is making an investment in its future.”
Open
Solutions Chairman and CEO, Louis Hernandez, Jr., also welcomed Community
First as the first credit union in the province of Ontario to select Open
Solutions’ core enterprise system as its banking platform and
said, “Our relational data processing system, The Complete
Credit Union Solution, was specifically designed to help credit
unions better serve their members and streamline operations. We are proud
to have been selected by such a leading and visionary credit union as Community
First. We will work hard to support their service excellence and business
growth goals.”
“The
growth of Open Solutions’ presence in the Canadian credit union
market has been exceptional,” Hernandez continued. “We now
have clients in five Canadian provinces and a significant percentage of
the country’s credit unions are committed to our technology
platform. The movement away from legacy systems to more open technologies
is clearly gaining momentum and we look forward to providing the
marketplace with the next generation in technology.”
The Canadian
version of The Complete Credit Union Solution localized the core
banking product for the overall Canadian market with a particular focus
in three areas: retirement accounts; loan and mortgage processing; and
regulatory requirements. This localized functionality enhances a proven
platform that was built around a powerful Oracle® relational database. It
offers credit unions of all membership sizes the technology tools to
succeed in a highly competitive financial services marketplace.
In addition
to The Complete Credit Union Solution, the credit union will
implement Open Solutions’ cView (CRM/business intelligence) and the
financial accounting suite.
About Open
Solutions Inc.
Open
Solutions Inc. offers a fully featured strategic product platform that
integrates core data processing applications built on a single
centralized Oracle relational database, with Internet banking, cash
management, CRM/business intelligence, financial accounting tools,
imaging, digital documents, Check 21, interactive voice response, network
services, Web hosting and design, and payment and loan origination
solutions. Open Solutions’ full suite of products and services
allows banks, thrifts, credit unions and financial services providers in
the United States, Canada and internationally to better compete in
today’s aggressive financial services marketplace, and expand and
tap their trusted financial relationships, client affinity, community
presence and personalized service.
For more
information about Open Solutions or its financial product line, contact
Mickey Goldwasser by email at mgoldwasser@opensolutions.com
by phone at 860.652.3153 or via fax at 860.652.3156. Visit Open
Solutions’ Internet site at www.opensolutions.com.
Open Solutions Inc. and The
Complete Credit Union Solution are registered trademarks of Open
Solutions Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of
their respective owners. Copyright 2007 Open Solutions Inc. All rights
reserved.
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