ATS unveils cardless, badgeless time and attendance system; uses Identix technology for employee biometric verification; first T&A system of its kind.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 1996--Identix Inc. (ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) A relational DBMS from Sybase that runs on Windows NT/2000, Linux and a variety of Unix platforms. ASE is a comprehensive and robust data management product with a long history dating back to the late 1980s. :IDX (IDX Systems Corporation, South Burlington, VT, www.idx.com) One of the largest health care information systems companies in the country, acquired in 2006 by GE Healthcare (www.gehealthcare.com), a unit of the General Electric Company. ), a leader worldwide in live-scan systems for law enforcement and biometric verification systems, on Thursday announced that Ellington, Conn.-based Accu-Time Systems Inc. (ATS) will introduce commercially on September 29 a line of employee time and attendance terminals called Accu-Touch that use Identix technology for check-in and check-out verification and eliminates the need for timecards and badges. The new system, to be officially unveiled September 23 at a major retail information systems exposition in Chicago, is the first of its kind, as it requires simply the entry of the assigned personal identity number (PIN), followed by the touch of the employee's forefinger forefinger /fore·fin·ger/ (-fing-ger) index finger; the second finger, counting the thumb as first. fore·fin·ger n. See index finger. . ATS is one of the world's largest time and attendance (T&A) manufacturers and marketers. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. ATS President Peter C. DiMaria, a second version, featuring a fingerprint- and PIN-encoded magstriped or matrix barcoded card, will be available during the second quarter of calendar 1997. That version eliminates the need to remember the individual PIN. DiMaria said that either system will be several hundred dollars less expensive than the cost of competing systems where 300 or less employees are registered, and comparable in cost, but with more operational features, to competitive systems handling up to an additional 200 employees. "With falsified timecards, as well thefts of goods and equipment by unauthorized individuals, costing U.S. retailers literally billions yearly," DiMaria said, "major-name retail chains have been seeking a foolproof T&A system for some time. We believe Accu-Time is that system and the Identix fingerprint identification technology is a key to the system's integrity." Supporting that statement, Cambridge, Mass.-based Information Marketing Businesses Inc. (IMB IMB International Mission Board IMB Irish Medicines Board IMB International Maritime Bureau IMB Institute for Molecular Bioscience (Brisbane, Australia) IMB IndyMac Bank (Pasadena, CA) ), a leading provider of labor management software and developer of the widely-used People-Planner T&A system, announced today that it intends to market the new Accu-Touch system to its international list of large retail chains and other clients. "`Buddy-punching' for absentee staffers costs the average 150-employee store more than $14,000 yearly in time paid but not worked," IMB Vice President Geoffrey Palmer Geoffrey Palmer can refer to:
"The combination of proven Accu-Time and Identix technologies with our equally proven People-Planner T&A application not only eliminates the `buddy-punching' phenomenon," he continued, "but automatically helps ensure that companies adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. federal and state labor laws labor law, legislation dealing with human beings in their capacity as workers or wage earners. The Industrial Revolution, by introducing the machine and factory production, greatly expanded the class of workers dependent on wages as their source of income. governing such activities as the number of hours a minor may work and an employee's taking the full prescribed meal break. "Overall, payroll costs go down, productivity goes up and government regulations are satisfied with a T&A system that can't be duplicated -- or fooled." Identix is a leader in designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing products for the capture and/or comparison of fingerprints for security, anti-fraud, law enforcement and other applications. The company's subsidiaries include: ANADAC Inc., a provider of information technology, engineering, systems integration and consulting services to government and commercial entities; Innovative Archival Solutions (IAS See iPlanet Application Server. 1. (computer) IAS - The first modern computer. It had main registers, processing circuits, information paths within the central processing unit, and used Von Neumann's fetch-execute cycle. ), a supplier of contract fingerprint services for employee and applicant screening and other personal verification applications; and Fingerscan Pty Ltd PTY LTD Propriety Limited (company structure in Australia) ., a manufacturer and integrator of commercial, financial and industrial biometric verification systems for the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. , Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. and other selected countries. -0- NOTE: The statements in this press release that relate to future plans, events and performance, including projected product release dates and pricing relative to competitive products, are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with uncertainties related to market acceptance of and demand for new products, success of product development efforts, timing and costs of product manufacturing, competitive factors and other risks identified in the company's SEC filings. Actual results, events and performances may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Identix and ATS undertake no obligation to release publicly the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. CONTACT: Allen & Caron Inc/South Coast Communications Kent Broussard (investors) Owen Daley (media) 714/252-8440 |
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