AIB finally upgraded our company account to use their new system which supports “real” Java and my choice of browser (Firefox).
It seems they have been migrating companies across to the new system over the last few months.
We now all have a little calculator sized “doda” called a “digipass” which basically generates a lot of random numbers.
Downsides
- I had to change my password’s format again!
- Passwords aren’t case sensitive – huh?
- You have to have your digipass with you in order to login
- the digipass is battery powered – I’m betting that the batteries will die on payday
Upsides
- It supports Firefox
- It uses Java as opposed to the Microsoft Virtual Machine which has been defunct for years
- It should be cross-platform (see above)
- Did I mention that it should be cross-platform?
AIB’s business banking was one of the few reasons I kept Windows XP installed on my office PC at all. The only thing stopping me from switching over now is finding the time to actually do it ie. migrate data from local hard drives (if there is any) and import mail from Outlook into Thunderbird (that’s going to hurt!)
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