Big Deals

** Wachovia Goes Exstream

Wachovia (Charlotte, N.C.) selected the Dialogue software solution from Exstream Software (Lexington, Ky.) to provide an enterprise infrastructure for building and deploying its personalized print/mail document applications.

** Amegy Opts for Allegiance

Amegy Bank (Houston) chose CustomerVoice and EmployeeVoice by Allegiance (Salt Lake City) to aggregate, analyze and quickly respond to customer and employee feedback.

** Wincor Renews Contract

Extending their partnership, Benchmark Technology Group (Alpharetta, Ga.) will market and resell Wincor Nixdorf's (Paderborn, Germany) line of cash systems in the U.S. market.

** AmEx, EMC Deal

EMC (Hopkinton, Mass.) will manage American Express' (New York) distributed storage environment, which is comprised of its core business-critical applications and thousands of servers.

** Fair Isaac, HP Team

Fair Isaac (Minneapolis) has integrated its Blaze Advisor rules management technology into the HP Open Bank architecture, and is working to integrate the fraud detection capabilities of Fair Isaac's Falcon Fraud Manager and Falcon One system.

** First Tennessee Has PULSE

First Tennessee Bank (Memphis) has agreed to use PULSE EFT Association (Houston) exclusively for PIN debit transactions at the point of sale and as its primary ATM network.

** Banco Galicia Picks NCR

Banco Galicia y Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina) will deploy 200 NCR (Dayton, Ohio) Personas ATMs and NCR software to expand the bank's ATM channel.

** Sky Chooses SAS AML

Sky Financial Group (Bowling Green, Ohio) chose SAS' (Cary, N.C.) Anti-Money Laundering solution to strengthen the bank's AML program and address fraud, risk management and marketing initiatives.

** UMB's Healthcare

UMB Healthcare Services (Kansas City, Mo.), a division of UMB Financial, partnered with ConnectYourCare (Hunt Valley, Md.) to provide custodial, investment and health payment card services for Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Reimbursement Arrangements.

** Corillian, Yodlee Partner

Corillian (Portland, Ore.) will support Yodlee's (Redwood City, Calif.) financial applications with its multi-factor authentication solution, Intelligent Authentication, to help prevent identity theft and fraud, and comply with FFIEC guidance.