Heartland Payment Systems in Alliance with Milinx Subsidiary CreditAssure - AssuredCredit Online Gateway Solution

Heartland Payment Systems announced an agreement to enable online credit card payments for e-commerce clients hosted by Milinx Business Group, Inc., a leading Application Service Provider. Through this alliance with Milinx subsidiary CreditAssure Financial, Inc., customers of Milinx will be able to apply online for their Internet Merchant account and receive swift service plus competitive rates.

The AssuredCredit Web Portal was in development from 1998 as an Intranet and launched in 1999 as a Web Portal to work in web browser applications. It was the testing ground for the first Merchant Online Payment Gateway technology in 2000. It used Netscape Crossware and Oracle COBRA technology for the front-end UI.

This portal backend framework and database schema were replicated for the Milinx ASP applications within the updated Milinx ASP hosted architecture using Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Cisco and Netscape technology.

Relational and meta database functionality were added for the Milinx miCRM, miCollaboration or SocialCollab and Commerce applications using the Oracle database engine with integration into the Payment Gateway Billing with miBilling.

The portal was again re-engineered as miPortal with Advanced Search & Payment Gateway management functions as a primary user management module with Software Development Kits ("SDK") and Application Programming Interfaces ("API") for customization. miBilling was integrated for Merchant Online Payment Gateway management.

It was being developed for the soon to be released Oracle 9i database engine using Oracle 8i with JDK and Sun Javabeans layer. This updated ASP miPortal with Universal API and toolkit for ASP applications delivered the Universal Hosted Desktop OS with Netscape .Crossware and Oracle Cobra framework.

In 1997 Maynard L. Dokken was developing online payment technology and launched the first online payment site called AssuredCredit with brand AssuredCard in 1999. It was the beginning of the ASP market and ASP technology.

In a December 2000 interview he was reminded that is was nearly a decade before that he was at the forefront of the commercial use of the Internet, when he established Success, Inc., an online corporate recruitment company.

In 1994, he developed a package of software services for small businesses. The sale by subscription of this software over the Internet in 1998 presaged the Application Service Provider (ASP) model which many high-tech companies have embraced in the past year. This technology development included merchant online payment gateways.