/PRZOOM - Newswire/ - KnowledgeBlue announced today the availability of the openBLUE Payment Gateway Extension for integrating Cybersource, PayPal® – Website Payments Pro, Enterpayment, & Authorize.net Payment with Compiere systems.

Salt Lake City, UT, United States, 08/27/2007 – KnowledgeBlue, a recognized leader in open source business applications, SaaS services, and the largest certified Compiere partner in North America announced today the availability of the openBLUE Payment Gateway Extension. The payment gateway solution captures credit card transactions, encrypts and routes them to 3rd party payment service providers (PSPs) and then returns either approval or decline notices. This solution provides merchants the ability to integrate payment processing within their Compiere and ERP / CRM systems with the premier payment providers. This is a seamless process where your customers do not directly interact with the payment gateway as data is forwarded to the gateway via your shopping cart (or the Compiere / openBLUE back-end instance) and a secure connection.

The solution is immediately available for all Compiere users worldwide. Russell Ridge, president & CEO, UniverseMeeting.com in Salt Lake City, UT, stated “MeetingUniverse.com selected PayPal Web Payments Pro one of openBLUE’s Payment Gateway Extensions for our credit card processing. We selected PayPal Web Payments Pro because of their competitive rates, superior security features, a virtual terminal facility, and quick and responsive technical support. We chose KnowledgeBlue for their expertise in integrating payment solutions such as the PayPal Web Payments Pro with Compiere. They are currently successfully implementing the solution with our Compiere system and corporate portal.” “The Payment Gateway is a direct response to customer and partner requests to fully integrate payment processing within their ERP / CRM systems and an example of KnowledgeBlue’s continual support and investment in the Compiere application”, stated Robert Kunz, president and CEO of KnowledgeBlue.

The solution provides fully integrated ERP / CRM payment processing with the premier PSP organizations including: PayPal® – Website Payments Pro, Entrapayment, Cybersource, and Authorize.net.

Key payment gateway solution features include:

• Authorization - The payment gateway checks that the credit card or financial transaction is acceptable and affords a secure link between your business, customers and select payment providers

• Settling - At day’s end, the payment gateway groups the daily transactions and transmits them to your bank for settlement and payment

• Reporting - This payment gateway records transactions and provides online viewing via the system’s report facilities. From here you can review them, print them or download for further payment processing

• Security - The payment gateway is fully compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards.

KnowledgeBlue provides professional services to implement and integrate the payment gateway within existing Compiere system deployments. An alternative delivery option is the KnowledgeBlue Extension-as-a-Service (EaaS) offering hosted and delivered from our world-class data center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

openBLUE is a ‘Compiere Powered’ integrated ERP and CRM solution built on a ‘powerful model-driven application platform that provides capabilities to run your business, your way. openBLUE offers multi-organizations, multi-currency, multi-accounting, and multiple languages, delivered in a single, open, integrated, on-demand service. Hundreds of small and medium sized customers rely on openBLUE solutions and services because it lets them quickly and affordably adapt their systems and processes to meet changing market and business challenges.

About KnowledgeBlue

KnowledgeBlue Inc. (knowledgeblue.com) is a premiere provider, of open source services for emerging, small and medium-sized companies and government agencies. KnowledgeBlue, under their openBLUE™ offering, enables companies to manage all key business processes throughout the enterprise, including accounting/Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), E-commerce, Call Center, Business Intelligence and Document Management. KnowledgeBlue delivers their openBLUE offering through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, with no hardware or software to procure, and therefore, no up-front capital expenditure. KnowledgeBlue also provides a suite of turn-key business process outsourcing (BPO) services embracing call center, fulfillment, and financial administration allowing organizations the freedom to focus on what they do best, growing their business.

KnowledgeBlue is privately held and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The company’s solutions enable organizations to transform the way that they compete and create value from their business activities.

TRADEMARKS: KnowledgeBlue is a registered trademark of KnowledgeBlue, Inc. All other brands, products, and services referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. The above is intended to outline our general product and / or service direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, functionality or service. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for KnowledgeBlue’s products and services remains at the sole discretion of KnowledgeBlue.

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