Johannesburg, South Africa and London, UK – 2 September 2009 – Postilion, a leading global provider of payments software solutions and a division of S1 Corporation (NASDAQ: SONE), today announced that Edcon, one of Africa’s leading clothing, footwear, textiles, stationery, and homeware retailers, has gone live with Postilion’s active/active high availability retail solution. Edcon is also rolling out Postilion’s intelligent in-store component, eSocket.POS, to their 15,000 point of sale terminals. These terminals are located across 1,000 stores which operate under ten retail brands, such as Edgars, Boardmans, CNA, Discom, Jet, and Red Square.

Edcon is running Postilion’s active/active architecture in order to maintain business continuity in the event of a communications, power, or server failure. Postilion’s active/active solution runs on two servers, located in different data centres, and maintains application level synchronization to provide full data integrity and 100% availability.

eSocket.POS handles all in-store payments processing requirements and accepts both magnetic stripe and EMV format credit and debit cards. Transactions are submitted to the central Postilion server for routing to the appropriate issuer for authorisation. The Postilion solution also provides sophisticated system monitoring
and alert capabilities to ensure that high levels of customer service are continuously achieved.

To further maintain business continuity and high availability, eSocket.POS is configured so that half of the point of sale estate has one active Postilion central server as its primary processing site, while the other half is configured to the second active server. If either server becomes unavailable for any reason, transactions are switched to the other server automatically - no manual failover, staff intervention or reconfiguration is required.

“The operational costs and effort of switching over from a primary to a backup server and then back to the primary site are high. In contrast, Postilion’s active/active approach of having both servers running at the same time is simpler and is centred on maintaining systems availability,” comments Henk van der Watt, Service Delivery Executive Manager at Edcon. “Our Postilion system is available 24 x 7, where even planned downtime becomes invisible to our store staff and customers. Operational skill requirements are also reduced, further lowering cost of ownership.”

“Postilion’s active/active deployment offers retailers the ultimate in business continuity and increased service levels. It has been in operation at a number of large retailers around the world for several years. This approach to availability and disaster recovery is the only solution of its kind in the EFT space. We are proud to add Edcon, one of Africa’s most dynamic retailers, to the growing list of retailers leveraging Postilion’s unique active/active deployment option,” said Francois van Schoor, President of Postilion Payments.

About Edcon
Edcon (Pty) Ltd is the leading clothing, footwear and textiles (CFT) retailing group in South Africa trading through a range of retail formats. The first Edgars store was opened on 6 September 1929 in Joubert Street, Johannesburg. Since then, the Company has grown to ten retail brands trading in over 1000 stores in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and Lesotho.

Edcon’s retail business has, through recent acquisitions, added top stationery and houseware brands as well as general merchandise to its CFT portfolio. Defined by the target markets served, all retail business is structured under two divisions: Department Stores Division, including Edgars, CNA, Boardmans, Prato, Red Square and Temptations, serving middle and upper income markets and Discount Division including Jet, Jet Mart, Jet Shoes, Legit and Blacksnow, serving middle to lower income markets. Edcon Financial Services provides credit facilities and financial services products to the Group’s over 4 million cardholders.

Henk van der Watt, Service Delivery Executive Manager at Edcon, can be reached on +27 11 495 6124.


About Postilion
Postilion, a division of S1 Corporation (NASDAQ: SONE), is a leading global provider of payments software solutions used by over 300 banks, card issuers, merchant acquirers, retailers, and ATM deployers in more than 50 countries. Together, these customers process over seven billion transactions annually, originating from more than 100,000 ATMs and 500,000 POS terminals.

Postilion delivers a multi-channel platform that is functionally rich, extremely flexible, SOA enabled and backed by proven world-class reliability, availability, security, and performance. With a 15-year track record of delivering innovative solutions, Postilion can assist in the introduction of mobile banking, cross-border acquiring, and online payments. Postilion solutions drive consumer-generated payments with support for EMV, contactless, prepaid, and gift cards. Postilion offers PCI DSS certified and PA-DSS compliant solutions. More information is available at www.postilion.com.


About S1 Corporation
S1 Corporation (NASDAQ: SONE) delivers customer interaction software for financial and payment services and offers unique solution sets for financial institutions, retailers, and processors under three brand names: Postilion, S1 Enterprise and FSB Solutions. Additional information about S1 solutions is available at www.s1.com, www.postilion.com, www.S1enterprise.com, and www.fsb-solutions.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. These statements include statements with respect to our financial condition, results of operations and business. The words "believes," "expects," "may," "will," "should," "projects," "contemplates," "anticipates," "forecasts," "intends" or similar terminology identify forward-looking statements. These statements are based on our beliefs as well as assumptions made using information currently available to us. Because these statements reflect our current views concerning future events, they involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Therefore, actual results may differ significantly from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. The risk factors included in our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (and available on our web site at www.s1.com or the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov) provide examples of risks, uncertainties and events that may cause our actual results to differ materially from the expectations we describe in our forward-looking statements. Except as provided by law, we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement.
Press Contacts
Eduan Swanepoel
Tel. Number: + 27 21 525 5000
E-mail: eduan.swanepoel@postilion.com

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