Higher One's Payment Processing Achieves Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle's PeopleSoft Campus Solutions

Integration with Oracle's PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Can Offer Safe, Real-time Processing of Student Payments

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 10, 2014-- Higher One, a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced from the floor of the Alliance HEUG conference (booth 706) it has achieved Oracle Validated Integration of Higher One Payment Processing with Oracle's PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.0. Higher One provides payment processing to campuses across the country. For institutions, these services can offer assurance that transactions will occur in real-time and within the strictest of security standards, all through a proven integration.

To achieve Oracle Validated Integration, Oracle partners are required to meet a stringent set of requirements that are based on the needs and priorities of the customers. This proven strategy can assure institutions that they can rely on Higher One's virtually seamless processing of payments made by students and parents, including online, on-campus, international and mobile payments.

"We are pleased to achieve Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle's PeopleSoft Campus Solutions," said Casey McGuane, chief operating officer at Higher One. "For the colleges and universities we serve, this achievement gives additional assurance that, through Higher One, the processing of payments will occur virtually seamlessly, in real-time and with full PCI compliance. Additionally, Higher One can offer students several safe electronic choices and ongoing 24/7 support."

"Achieving Oracle Validated Integration gives our customers the confidence that the integration between Higher One Payment Processing and Oracle's PeopleSoft Campus Solutions is functionally sound and performs as tested," said Kevin O'Brien, senior director, ISV and SaaS Strategy, Oracle. "For solutions deployed on-premise, in the cloud, or both, Oracle Validated Integration applies a rigorous technical review and test process that helps to reduce deployment risk and improves the user experience of the partner's integrated offering."

About Higher One

Higher One Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ONE) partners with colleges and universities to lower their administrative costs and to improve graduation rates. We provide a broad array of payment, refund disbursement and data analytics and management tools to institutions that help them save money and enhance institutional effectiveness. And for students, we offer financial literacy programs and convenient, flexible and affordable transaction options to help them manage their finances. Higher One is a leader in higher education, supporting more than 1,900 schools and 13 million enrolled students. More information about Higher One can be found at www.higherone.com.

About Oracle Validated Integration

Oracle Validated Integration, available through the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), gives customers confidence that the integration of complementary partner software products with Oracle Applications and specific Oracle Fusion Middleware solutions have been validated, and the products work together as designed. This can help customers reduce risk, improve system implementation cycles and provide for smoother upgrades and simpler maintenance. Oracle Validated Integration applies a rigorous technical process to review partner integrations. Partners who have successfully completed the program are authorized to use the "Oracle Validated Integration" logo. For more information, please visit Oracle.com at http://www.oracle.com/us/partnerships/solutions/index.html.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success.http://www.oracle.com/partners.

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