E-commerce Deployment Prepaid Works delivers quick, secure, and 24x7 service using Pramati Server powered prepaid exchange Prepaid Works is a prepaid solution provider serving merchants across the United States. It provides prepaid solutions that serve a variety of merchants like gas stations, convenience stores, and specialty stores who sell prepaid wireless, long distance, and ring tone products to customers. Merchants use the Prepaid Works solution to get PIN numbers securely to their payment terminal easily and quickly. This is one of the fastest growing consumer markets in the United States. Challenge Prepaid Works had to deploy a highly reliable and secure system that would easily integrate with a variety of existing point-of-sale terminals of merchants spread all over the United States. Having decided on the J2EE architecture for the application, Prepaid Works had to select the application server platform that could securely deliver 24x7 uptime. The challenge was to choose a robust product that was easy to develop on, had a rich feature-set, and at the same time was priced moderately. Solution After evaluating various J2EE compliant application servers, Prepaid Works decided to trust Pramati Server as the runtime engine for its application. Apart from being current on all J2EE standards, Pramati Server provided a comprehensive JAAS-based security framework making it suitable for using it as the backbone of an exchange conducting numerous transactions each day. Excellent usability and a rich set of tools helped in reducing the time-to-market. Benefits Secure, reliable, scalable system. With Pramati Server as the deployment platform, the Prepaid Works exchange delivers the highest level of security for merchants to conduct prepaid transactions and rock-solid reliability to maintain 24x7 uptime. The exchange is highly scalable and is meeting the increasing demand of Prepaid Works growing customer base and transaction volume. Fast time to market. Pramati Server's high usability and the rich tool comprising the Deploy Tool, Diagnostics Tool, Pramati Studio, etc. helped Prepaid Works development team to work productively. The project was completed on a very tight schedule and the exchange went live on time. Rapid ROI. Prepaid Works is realizing rapid return on its investment in J2EE technology as Pramati Server offers the best price-performance value in the industry. Â |