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BIO-key solution integrated into IBM access manager

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

BIO-key International, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced one of its biometric fingerprint identification solutions has been integrated with the IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On.

The upgrade for IBM’s system enables a user to simply utilize a swipe of their finger to access any of the protected applications or networks that fall under the Tivoli system.

While the integration includes only the fingerprint ID software necessary and not any sort of scanners, BIO-key’s software is designed with a fingerprint reader independent platform allowing it to work with nearly any leading fingerprint scanner. [end] 

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