Datacard To Market Integrated Fingerprint Identification
Solutions
Datacard Group, a world leader in secure identification solutions and Identix
Incorporated,the world’s leading multi-biometrics security technology company,
today 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. Dr. Joseph J. Atick, president and 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."