The hosted CIM option provides a way for you to establish a hosted connection with Authorize.Net that allows the exchange of sensitive cardholder data to happen on our secure servers instead of the merchants’ servers.
The hosted CIM is available to all developers now, however, the feature is not yet being publicly announced as it’s still officially in beta. For more information on the hosted CIM option, please see section two of the CIM XML Guide and the CIM SOAP Guide.
A hosted CIM solution was one of most-requested features from many of you, and we hope this release will help alleviate some of the scope and complexity of PCI DSS compliance.