Ogone
Ogone
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legal form | GmbH |
founding | 1996 |
Seat | Brussels, Belgium |
management | Peter De Caluwe, Koen Casteleyn and Marcus W. Mosen |
Number of employees | As of 08/2012: over 250 |
Branch | Online payment services |
Website | www.ogone.com |
Ogone is a payment service provider from Brussels and has existed under this name since 1996. Ogone offers online retailers the opportunity to use many local and international payment methods via a single connection .
history
Corporate development
Milestones | 1996-2000 | 2001-2003 | 2004-2007 | 2008 - YTD |
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1996: Company foundation: IT consultancy in the banking sector | 2001: Renaming to Ogone, the virtual PSP | 2004: PCI certification | 2008: Expansion of the international acquirer network | |
1999: First server payment solution "Netclearing" | 2002: Profitable card present solutions for Micros / Fidelio | 2004: Processing of purchasing cards with American Express | 2009: Integration of
Loyalty cards |
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2000: Netclearing is geared towards e-commerce | 2003: Introduction of 3D Secure & Fraud Detection Module (first in Europe) 2003: First white label solution | 2007: Further development and expansion of the fraud detection module with scoring and filters | 2010: Development of extended account reconciliation. 2010: Integration of eDCC 2011: Extension of collecting services | |
Expansion | 1999–2000: Market expansion and takeover of market leadership in Belgium | 2002: Establishment of branches in the Netherlands and France | 2006: Branch in Germany and Switzerland | 2010: UK office |
2007: Office in Austria | 2011: Expansion to India (acquisition of EBS) | |||
2007: Formation of an international sales team | 2012: Branch in USA |
Ogone was founded in 1996 by Harold Mechelynck and Thierry Pierson. Ogone emerged from an IT consultancy for banks and in 1999 developed its first platform for electronic payment methods for the Belgian market, Netclearing . With this solution, Ogone became the market leader in Belgium. In the following years the company expanded into the Netherlands, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Great Britain, India and the USA and now has its own subsidiaries in all these countries. Over 300 employees specialize in the requirements of payment transactions in electronic commerce . Today, Ogone has one of the most powerful and functionally richest payment processing platforms for processing electronic payment transactions. The company supports all industry-relevant security requirements and has been PCI DSS Level 1 certified since 2004 . With over 200 direct connections to banks and acceptance partners, Ogone has an international network to support dealers in national and international trade. The Ogone payment page is available in over 20 languages.
service
The Ogone platform is a technical interface that is seamlessly integrated between customers, retailers and acceptance partners for payment methods. With currently over 80 international and local online payment methods, Ogone lets your customers decide how they want to pay. Today Ogone has more than 40,000 customers in more than 45 countries who can process their transactions worldwide in the respective local currency . The solution is based on a software-as-a-service architecture (SaaS), so retailers do not need to install any hardware or software to use the Ogone technology.
Key figures
Fiscal year | Employee |
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2006 | 35 |
2007 | 54 |
2008 | 79 |
2009 | 94 |
2010 | 105 |
2011 | 127 |
2012 | 257 |
partner
Ogone works with a wide variety of e-commerce partners. The following areas are covered here: Organizations, acceptance partners and banks, web agencies and integrators, shop software and industry-specific solutions.
Management
The management today consists of Peter De Caluwe, Koen Casteleyn and Marcus W. Mosen.
Web links
- German-language website of Ingenico Payment Services (Ingenico Payment Services GmbH is the successor to Ogone GmbH)
- "Ogone sets sights on the US". The Paypers. 10 February 2012.
- "Summit Partners acquires majority stake in e-payment services firm Ogone". TechCrunch. 17 May 2010.
- "Ogone Payment Services enters Indian market via EBS acquisition". The Paypers. 23 September 2010.