illycaffè, King Ranch and Life Extension First Joint Customers

Premier Group’s SmarterCommerce is a robust omni-channel sales solution integrated with the Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne platform that addresses Ecommerce, Payment Processing, Sales Tax Compliance, Retail Point of Sale (POS) and Call Center requirements to deliver a complete, end-to-end capability enabling organizations to engage with their customers across all sales channels. Computop’s Paygate is a PCI-certified omnichannel payment platform that provides merchants with secure payment solutions and efficient fraud prevention for international markets. The partnership will enable JD Edwards EnterpriseOne/SmarterCommerce users to offer all of the cross-border ecommerce and omnichannel payment methods available via Computop Paygate.

One company already benefitting from the Computop and Premier Group partnership is illycaffè. Roy Forster, Director of Information Technology-Applications and Process at illycaffè, noted, “With credit card processing becoming a growing need for our customers, having a solution that was natively integrated with Oracle JD Edwards was a top priority in our global strategy. SmarterCommerce, including Computop Paygate, has allowed illycaffè to service our customers better, while simultaneously providing additional efficiencies by automating our credit card processing.”

The growing list of joint omni-channel customers include King Ranch and Life Extension. Commenting on the partnership, Premier Group’s President and CEO Fermin Rodriguez said, “Our customers need to be able to easily offer the payment options that their global customers desire and also ensure the security and fraud prevention around those payments. The integration of Computop Paygate into SmarterCommerce will enable them to do just that. We always seek to provide the best support for our customers’ businesses, and this will be bolstered further through our partnership with Computop.” “We have a long history of helping merchants successfully grow their businesses around the world, and through this partnership we will be able to extend the benefits of our international Paygate platform and our omnichannel capability to EnterpriseOne/SmarterCommerce users to support their global expansion and domestic consolidation efforts/strategy,” said Andre Malinowski, CEO of Computop Inc. U.S. “We are excited to partner with Premier Group to enable their customers to expand further into new markets by offering secure international payment options and U.S. domestic POS Chip-and-PIN P2PE payments (omni-channel) that the consumers in these markets prefer and trust so all parties can transact with confidence.”

About Premier Group

With a 25+ year history of serving the Oracle JD Edwards community globally, Premier Group has established itself in omni-channel commerce for Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. Through its SmarterCommerce product line, Premier offers a robust business process solution addressing Ecommerce, Payment Processing, Sales Tax Compliance, Retail Point of Sale (POS), and Call Center requirements to deliver a complete, end-to-end capability enabling organizations to engage with their customers across all sales channels.

As a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, Premier represents Oracle’s JD Edwards enterprise software in over a dozen countries and currently serve our customers through in network of offices and professionals in the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and Asia Pacific. For more information about Premier and SmarterCommerce, reach us at +1.305.567.3188 or visit our websites at www.premierway.com or www.smartercommerce.net.

About Computop – the payment people

As one of the very first payment service providers, Computop offers its customers around the world local and innovative omnichannel solutions for payment processing and fraud prevention. The Computop Paygate payment platform enables seamless integrated payment processes for e-commerce, at POS and on mobile devices. With this internally developed software, retailers and service providers have the flexibility and freedom to choose from over 250 payment methods enabling them to specifically tailor their payment options per country.

Computop, a global player with its head office in Germany and locations in China, England and the USA, has been servicing large international companies in the service, retail, mobility, gaming and travel industries for more than 20 years. These companies include global brands such as Bigpoint, C&A, Fossil, the entire Otto Group, Sixt and Swarovski. Computop also provides it payment system to banks and financial service providers as a white-label solution. Through its customer network and collaboration with the global marketplace Rakuten, Computop processes commercial payment transactions for more than 15,000 retailers annually, with a combined value of USD 31 billion. With its individual and secure solutions, Computop makes a major contribution to the future of international payment processing. www.computop.com