Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

DAXKO partners with M2SYS to offer fingerprint software solution to YMCAs

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

M2SYS Technology has finalized an agreement with DAXKO, a provider of operations software and services to the YMCA market. Through its partnership with M2SYS, DAXKO will offer the Bio-SnapON™ fingerprint software solution as an add-on to its DAXKO Operations software application. Bio-SnapON™ enables companies like DAXKO to rapidly add a fingerprint recognition component to their existing applications with no development work. “Reliable membership identification has always been an area of concern for the YMCA and we recognized the need for a secure identification solution that could be added to our membership management software,” says April Benetollo, VP of Sales and Marketing for DAXKO. [end] 

Oracle has released a new version of Oracle Retail Point-of-Service that aims to increase security, operational efficiency and functionality in part by integrating biometrics.

Oracle partnered with DigitalPersonal to add integrated biometrics to the POS package. Users of the software will login using their fingerprint, which will replace the need for PINs or passwords. This feature intends to reduce fraud by eliminating the possibility of unauthorized employees using a manager ID or swipe card to access the POS and approve overrides.

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SML Group Ltd announced the launch of its new “ViziT” RFID item visibility solutions for the retail apparel and item tracking applications.

The ViziT solutions include a range of RFID/EAS enabled paper and woven labels, as well as tickets and sticker that can be attached to garments and stacked items. Using the SML ViziT IT cloud based data management software also provides for semi automated inventory control, as well as improved loss prevention by triggering alarms and item identification at the store exit.

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M2SYS Technologies announced its RightPunch line of biometric time and attendance tracking solution, which had already been deployed to Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, has been deployed to the California State University, Fresno Association.

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Retail Pro, a developer of retail operations management software, has announced it has struck a partnership with biometric technology developer M2SYS.

The partnership will enable biometric on Retail Pro’s RightPOS, a point-of-sale-based management system that handles register security among other management tasks. The inclusion of biometric authentication will increase accountability of employees using the system, improve the audit trail and further strengthen the security by doing away with often forgotten passwords or PINs.  

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Retail Pro International, a developer of retail industry management software solutions, has announced a partnership with biometric technology developer M2SYS.

The new partnership will see Retail Pro’s RightPOS solution, a point-of-sale-based solution for authenticating users of a register as they process transactions and for employee time and attendance, integrated with M2SYS’s Hybrid Biometric Platform. The partnership will enable any client using RightPOS to do away with employee passwords or PINs for authentication purposes.

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Lumidigm announced a partnership with Tiger IT Bangladesh Limited to bring a criminal identity solution that utilizes iris recognition and will also offer fingerprint recognition sensors from Lumidigm.

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