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Datacard To Market Identix BioEngine Technology
Datacard and Identix jointly announced that the two companies have signed an OEM distribution agreement to promote and sell fingerprint identification products and solutions to government and corporate enterprises. As part of the agreement, Datacard intends to offer Identix' leading BioEngine fingerprint technology for integration into the Datacard ID Works identity software product suite. The integrated solution would provide heightened security around physical and logical access via biometrically enabled ID cards.
ID Works is a software platform that allows users to customize their plastic card based identification solutions. By integrating BioEngine capabilities, users will now be able to easily generate an identification card -- with a stored fingerprint template -- which can then be used for a multitude of applications for physical and logical access. The product offering allows the template to be represented as a printed bar code or securely stored in a smart integrated circuit chip that is embedded onto the identification card.
Martin Kearsley, Senior VP & GM of Datacard's Software and Solutions Division stated, "The ID Works platform, along with card personalization systems from Datacard, serve our customers' need for issuance of secure credentials. Biometrics is increasingly important in high security applications and is a key component of our relationship with Identix. It gives us access to the best-of-breed fingerprint technology and peripheral devices that are proven to be scalable and reliable in large-scale enterprise environments."
Dr Joseph Atick, President & CEO of Identix said, "The agreement with Datacard fits well with our overall strategy of enabling solutions to provide heightened security in an enterprise environment. Datacard brings to us significant domain expertise with respect to identification and smart card solutions. Their participation in providing BioEngine technology as an integrated component to the ID Works product line helps to facilitate Continuity of Authentication, a human-centric security framework that begins with issuing an identification card and enables the continuous, positive identification of individuals at various access points within an enterprise. We are pleased to work with an industry leader such as Datacard in pursuing this vision."
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