Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for activating a software product for use by a customer of a financial institution that accesses an on-line banking product on an on-line banking server. A request from the financial institution to activate the software product for use by the customer is received through an interface such as an extranet site of a host of the on-line banking product. An enablement request is transmitted from the interface to an activation server, and a script on the activation server is executed to modify a configuration element to automatically activate the software program for the customer. Thus, the financial institution, which does not host the on-line banking product, drives automatic activation of the software product without manual input by project managers or technical support persons of the on-line banking product host.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of synchronising operation of at least one component of each of a plurality of serially connected devices (1000) connected to a common power source. The method involves sending cycles of serial interrupts (610-619) to each of the serially connected devices (1000), allocating an operation time slot (600,602,604,606,608) to each serially connected device (1006) corresponding to at least one interrupt of each cycle, each at least one allocated time slot being different, and controlling operation of at least one component (222) of each serially connected device to operate only during the time slot allocated to the serially connected device.