The Web-based system and new Intel-Linux operating environment also is designed to allow credit union and IT departments to more easily train on and then manage and deploy throughout the branches, the company said.

“CUnify provides credit unions that typically have limited access to more costly solutions a robust and modern technology platform. With these investments we are stating clearly and categorically that this market and the CUnify product are major components of our go-forward strategy,” said David Mitchell, executive vice president and chief marketing officer in charge of product management for Open Solutions in Glastonbury, Conn.

The introduction of the Sybase platform is apparently a new strategy for the privately held Open Solutions. The company rose to prominence on the strength of its Oracle relational database core platform, signing a series of large and small credit unions and processors and acquiring small legacy core operators.