Intercede Delivers Superior Digital Identity Management Services for Enterprises with edefice™ 6.5

Intercede Group plc, a leading developer of digital identity management software, today released edefice 6.5, the latest version of the company's flagship digital identity management software. Edefice is a highly interoperable solution driving the industry with support for multiple smart cards, tokens, USB keys, Certificate Authorities, biometric technologies and physical personalization devices. Edefice delivers unparalleled flexibility and ease-of-use for deploying, managing and maintaining complete digital identity solutions.

"Intercede continues to deliver innovative digital identity management software that leads the industry in interoperability," said Richard Parris, CEO of Intercede. "This directly translates into greater usability, reduced costs and a faster return on investment for our customers."

Unified digital identity management
Edefice 6.5 and its Web portal technology allow an authorized individual to enroll users, capture images, design ID badges (where applicable), issue and update both the smart card itself and the appropriate digital credentials - all from a single interface. Organizations can centrally define business rules within edefice to enable role based access controls. Furthermore, all administrative services are presented to the most appropriate people across the organization without compromising security or increasing costs. (i.e. Human Resources, Help Desk, Security Officer, Line Manager)

Flexible system deployment
Enterprises can leverage their existing expertise and investments in Web infrastructure to reduce the cost and effort of deploying digital identity management services. Edefice is a fully secured web-based product that can be easily deployed across an entire organization. A PC with a web browser and an IP connection is all that is needed for an issuance/management station. Edefice supports both single and multi-byte character sets, allowing for multi-lingual deployments.

Efficient digital identity issuance
Regardless of user volumes, edefice will support the issuance, management and maintenance of digital identities more efficiently than any other system available today. Edefice supports a wide range of issuance and post-issuance models that will satisfy the needs of any organization; these include face-to-face issuance, batch issuance, bulk issuance and even self-service options.

Integrated card design and layout tool
Edefice 6.5 contains a fully integrated card design and layout tool with powerful imaging features for creating 'Smart Id's'. Edefice enables the following: placement of background images, logos and employee pictures from both cameras and stored files.

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About Intercede
Intercede Group plc (IGP LN) (IGP.L) is a leading developer and supplier of digital identity management software. Intercede's edefice™ provides service providers and end-user organizations with the tools required to quickly deploy, maintain and manage smart cards, hardware and software tokens, biometrics, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology and other digital credentials. Intercede's customers cover a range of industries and include ActivCard, AIB, Bank of Ireland, Barclays Bank, Datakey, Dexia Bank, Fujitsu Services, Lloyds TSB and the NHS. For more information, visit Intercede's home page at http://www.intercedegroup.com/ or call +44 (0) 1455 558 111.

About edefice™
Intercede's edefice™ is powerful digital identity management software that unites smart cards, tokens, biometrics, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and a host of other technologies to provide cost effective identity based solutions ranging from Corporate ID badges to complete Campus, Citizen, Driving License, Health and Transportation card programs.

Edefice enabled identity solutions allow end-users to enjoy faster and more secure access to PCs, networks, buildings and services, while providing administrators with an easy to use web-based digital identity enrolment, issuance and life cycle management tool.

For more information, visit the edefice™ home page at http://www.edefice.com/ or call +44 (0) 1455 558 111.

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