ACI Worldwide and Compaq Computer Corporation has announced that they have agreed to jointly deploy e-payment solutions for the financial services market - leveraging Compaq's Zeo Latency Enterprise (ZLE) technology.

Based on this agreement, ACI and Compaq expect to bring new ZLE-centric products to market inthe first calendar quarter of 2002. Development has already begun on the first wave of innovative solutions based on this agreement.

ACI will demonstrate these solutions at the upcoming Cards Middle East event in Dubai in May.