Annual Report 2010

Customers

A fruitful partnership with Intercede

British Intercede and Precise Biometrics jointly offer security systems for large organizations. The increasing size of modern systems demands higher levels of security, reliability and cost-efficiency. As a key supplier of security systems to mainly US government agencies, Intercede emphasizes the superiority of biometrics, and believes that Match-on-Card will continue to be used to a far greater extent.

Intercede – a well-known player

Intercede has a turnover of 10 million dollars and is active in the UK, the US and France. Their product range includes the software Intercede MyID, a well-established identity and security platform.

“Our main customers are governments and large, global companies,” explains Richard Parris, CEO of Intercede. “Intercede MyID helps these types of organizations to issue, register, store and administrate identity documents.”

A long and fruitful partnership

Intercede and Precise Biometrics have been cooperating for about 10 years, in principle since the development of fingerprint recognition first penetrated the market.

“We have been working with security documents and biometric identification for many years, and we have always experienced Precise Biometrics’ hardware to have a leading position in the market. Our software platform is reliant on hardware and even if our customers use a variety of different systems, many of them prefer Precise Biometrics’ solutions. The technology always delivers what it promises and we are happy to emphasize Precise Biometrics’ products as a recommended choice.”

Assignment: to protect the US infrastructure

The US government is one of Intercede’s largest and most important clients. It uses the company’s MyID system in combination with technology from Precise Biometrics.

“We jointly offer systems for identity documents that in the final analysis must be capable of protecting the US infrastructure. The assignment involves a large number of subsidiary organizations and departments, for example the Department of Education and Federal Aviation Administration – a solution that includes over 100,000 users.”

Biometrics and Match-on-Card – natural solution for future challenges

Intercede is convinced that fingerprint recognition will become more and more important as the integration between different systems increases. And in this context Match-on-Card will be playing an ever greater role.

“We work with a large number of different systems, including Match-on-Card, which we consider has many advantages. We believe that many organizations all over the world will come to realize the advantages of a transition to Match-on-Card, and our purpose now is to make sure that the beneficial use of biometrics in smart cards is understood by a greater audience. This is where we walk hand in hand with Precise Biometrics, which we consider has one of the best systems for Match-on-Card in the market.”

Fingerprint recognition is becoming more and more important

Intercede believes that the industry of fingerprint recognition will continue to expand in the market.

“The more we see how different ID solutions, banking systems and payment systems are woven together, the more we will see how the superiority of biometrics in terms of security, simplicity and cost-efficiency will become more widely acknowledged. Biometric identification will without doubt continue to outcompete more resource-heavy alternatives such as password-based systems. Well-established companies like Intercede and Precise Biometrics have laid the foundation for this development and the challenge now is to further reinforce these positions as market leaders and to continue to launch new products and services. There are many opportunities here which we look forward to administrating together with Precise Biometrics – for many years ahead.”