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WCC Smart Search and Match announces collaboration with SecuGen

Thursday, January 31, 2008

WCC Smart Search & Match is collaborating with SecuGen. SecuGen has developed rugged fingerprint readers and software, which will provide enhanced identification and authentication for WCC’s ELISE ID - The Platform for Multi-Modal Fusion. ELISE ID is capable of searching large amounts of data - both biographic and complex biometric - using advanced technologies to calculate similarities and rank results. ELISE ID’s platform will incorporate SecuGen’s fingerprint technology as an enhancement to its capabilities for multi-factor identification.


WCC Smart Search and Match Announces Collaboration With Secugen

Multi-Modal Fusion Platform to Include Leading Fingerprint Technology

UTRECHT, Netherlands, and RESTON, Virginia — WCC Smart Search & Match, a leading provider of high-performance search and match software, today announced its collaboration with SecuGen, a leader in optical fingerprint recognition technology for biometric identification and authentication. SecuGen has developed fast, rugged and accurate fingerprint readers and software, which will provide enhanced identification and authentication for WCC’s ELISE ID - The Platform for Multi-Modal Fusion.

ELISE ID is capable of searching vast amounts of data - both biographic and complex biometric - to deliver meaningful, ranked results extremely quickly. ELISE ID optimizes identity searching using advanced technologies to calculate similarities and rank results, allowing for true score-level fusion. ELISE ID’s platform will incorporate SecuGen’s fingerprint technology as a significant enhancement to its capabilities for multi-factor identification.

“Our partnership with SecuGen brings together two key technologies to deliver on the promise of multimodal fusion,” said Peter Went, CEO of WCC. “This collaboration allows us for an enhanced multi-modal search and match platform tailored to large databases found in such areas as the federal government, healthcare and financial sectors.”

“Fingerprint authentication is one of the trusted and most accurate methods to proving identity,” said Won Lee, CEO at SecuGen. “We are excited to work with WCC Smart Search & Match to create a truly multi-modal platform that exceeds anything available in the world today.”

About WCC

WCC is a global technology leader in search and match software. Its ELISE matching system delivers the best possible identity matching results using multiple biometrics and/or biographic criteria. WCC’s core competencies are in Identity Matching (biometrics), HR/staffing and other markets.

For more information, please visit: http://www.multimodalfusion.com.

About SecuGen

SecuGen Corporation is the world’s leading provider of advanced, optical fingerprint recognition technology, products, tools and platforms for physical and information security. SecuGen designs and develops FBI-certified fingerprint readers and OEM components, developer kits and software, including NIST/MINEX-compliant algorithms.

For more information, please visit: http://www.secugen.com[end] 

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